Ethiopia News
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopia said Wednesday its forces had killed three prominent members of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), whose leaders are the target of military operations in the country's northern Tigray region.
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Woldia -
As rifle-toting militiamen fired celebratory rounds into the air, young men marched through the streets denouncing the former ruling party of Ethiopia's Tigray region as "thieves.
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Geneva -
Switzerland will get round-the-clock airspace protection starting this week, the military said Tuesday, nearly seven years after the country was unable to scramble fighter jets to respond to an hijacking outside of business hours.
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopia on Friday offered a reward in exchange for information that could help locate leaders of the Tigray region's ruling party, who have been the target of a major military offensive.
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New York -
The United Nations announced Thursday a $35.6 million emergency aid package for civilians caught up in fighting in Ethiopia's Tigray region.
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Tesfaye Berhe looked on with worry as his farmhands stripped leaves from sorghum stalks dried brown by the blaring sun, wondering how he could salvage a harvest disrupted by heavy fighting in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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New York -
Humanitarian convoys have begun to reach Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, a United Nations spokesman said Wednesday, after the area was cut off in early November by a government military offensive.
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Woldia -
The first shells landed before dawn, crashing through tin-roofed mud homes and sending Jano Admasi's neighbours fleeing for the cacti-dotted hills around her village in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopia said Monday that power and phone connections had been partly restored in Tigray, where civilians spoke of deprivation, fear and violence in the troubled region after six weeks of silence.
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As fighting raged and bombs rained down on Ethiopia's Tigray region, 80-year-old Asafu Alamaya begged her daughters to flee with their children to Sudan, and to leave her to die at home.
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Addis Ababa -
The first international aid convoy arrived Saturday in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region since fighting broke out more than a month ago, triggering a refugee crisis and humanitarian disaster.
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Gedaref -
Among the thousands of people fleeing the five-week-old conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region are a few dozen men, women and children from Eritrea, one of the world's most authoritarian states.
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Washington -
The United States said Friday it believed Eritrean forces had entered Ethiopia's Tigray region after a major offensive by Addis Ababa and urged their withdrawal.
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed insisted Friday that his government would take the lead in delivering aid to Tigray, where his troops have been fighting forces loyal to the regional government.
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Thousands of people fled war in Ethiopia with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
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New York -
The United Nations and Ethiopia have reached a new agreement for joint missions to assess humanitarian needs in the northern region of Tigray, Secretary General Antonio Guterres announced Wednesday.
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Gedaref -
It is every parent's worst nightmare: to be separated from their child.And that is exactly what happened to Otash, an Ethiopian woman now living as a refugee in Sudan.
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"Do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do!" an Ethiopian girl sings to her classmates, who are huddled together on a straw mat on the sandy ground of a refugee camp in Sudan.
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Oslo -
A "champion of peace" doesn't normally threaten to show no mercy before carrying out an attack that sparks a humanitarian crisis. Yet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is not the first Nobel Peace Prize laureate to go to war.
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Addis Ababa -
The United Nations said Friday that fighting continued "in many parts" of Ethiopia's Tigray, complicating efforts to deliver humanitarian aid despite a deal granting the UN access to territory under federal control.
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopia has granted the United Nations access to deliver aid to the northern region of Tigray, following weeks of lobbying amid military operations there, according to an agreement seen by AFP on Wednesday.
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Addis Ababa -
The United Nations on Tuesday pleaded with Ethiopia to allow aid for long-standing refugee camps in the northern Tigray region, where nearly 100,000 people from neighbouring Eritrea are thought to have run out of food.
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Bulldozers are tearing down trees by the dozen to make way for shelters and provide firewood for refugees from Ethiopia's Tigray conflict at Sudan's Um Raquba reception camp.
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Addis Ababa -
The leader of the ruling party in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region said Monday his forces were continuing to battle the national army, two days after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the country's internal conflict "completed".
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday Tigray region's dissident leaders had fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting, but said federal forces were monitoring them closely and would "attack" them soon.
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Addis Ababa -
Hospitals in the capital of Ethiopia's Tigray region faced an influx of trauma patients, an aid group said Sunday, a day after federal troops claimed control of the city and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said fighting was over.
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Addis Ababa -
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Saturday that military operations in the country's northern Tigray region were "completed" after the army claimed control of the regional capital, declaring victory in a three-week-old conflict that has left tho...
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It was late on the first Tuesday in November, and Captain Hussen Besheir, an Ethiopian federal soldier, was on duty at a guard post outside the military camp in Dansha. It was close to midnight when he saw headlights approaching.
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Eritrea's capital came under fire from Ethiopia's breakaway Tigray region Friday, raising fears that Ethiopia's internal conflict could spread as leader Abiy Ahmed resisted calls for dialogue.
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Scores of freshly-dug graves fill the church compound in Mai-Kadra. Shovels abandoned by weary hands are strewn on the dirt among empty cans of lemon air freshener that fail to mask the stench of death.
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Ethiopia Image
Diagram with site of dam marked Nicolás Pérez
Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie excavating one of the six rib bones found during the excavation. The use of dental tools was absolutely necessary to extract these highly fragile bones. Photo courtesy: Woranso-Mille Project
Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Qat (aka chat, jaad, or khat), is legal and widely popular in Ethiopia, the Horn of Africa, and Southern Arabia. Here, qat shrubs are growing between rows of corn. A. Davey from Where I Live Now: Pacific Northwest
The temple in Yeha, Tigray region, is dated back ca. 8th century BC and believed to be one of the oldest structures in Ethiopia. Jialiang Gao - (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The boat was transporting what could be is sugar cane to the other side of the river while people in the background are cutting more. Nile River, Egypt. Dennis Jarvis f(CC BY-SA 2.0)
Omo River and surrounding fertile seasonal floodlands as seen from Karo village of Doose, Ethiopia. Bernard Gagnon
Participants listening to Hassan "Karate" during the Convention. Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Camels crossing the desert. Courtesy of Jeremy Curl
Explorer Jeremy Curl in the desert in Ethiopia. Courtesy of Jeremy Curl
Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Photo: Ogaal Radio,88.9FM
OYSU stars performing at the Convention. Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
In this Landsat photo, the White Nile is on the left, and the narrower Blue Nile is on the right. The two rivers join a few miles further north at the city of Khartoum, Sudan, home to one million of Sudan's 33 million people. The farming patterns in the middle of the picture resemble French long farms, whose long, rectangular shapes allow each individual plot access to water from irrigation canals along the narrow side. USGS
Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Anchor Hassan "Karate" of Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM addressing the Annual Ogaden Diaspora Communities Convention in Toronto, Canada. Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
Anchor Hassan "Karate" of Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM, (second right), with participants during the Convention. Photo: Ogaal Radio, 88.9FM
A scene from Movie "Difret" Berlin International Film Festival
The stallions of Burkina Faso, the 2013 African Cup of Nations finalists will feature in the CAF zone World Cup playoffs. Fifa.com
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