Ethiopia’s Next Leader Named
Ethiopia’s ruling coalition has elected a new leader from the country’s Oromo ethnic group, which has been at the centre ...
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Kenya To Get $10m Investment In BBC Expansion
British broadcaster British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is set to invest about $10m in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, as part of ...
US Issues Warning After Ethiopia Grenade Attacks
The United States issued a warning Thursday to its citizens about travelling to a popular tourist region in Ethiopia after ...
Ethiopia Extends State of Emergency By Four Months
The Ethiopian parliament has extended by four months a state of emergency it declared six months ago after almost a ...
Ethiopian Opposition Leaders Face Coup Charges
Ethiopia's government has charged three prominent opposition activists with inciting riots, destroying property and plotting a coup, a government spokesman ...
Ethiopian Government Lambasted For Flipping On Political Reform Promise
nternational Rights Group, Human Rights Watch (HRW), has accused the Ethiopian government of turning back on its public promise to ...
Africa’s Top Hashtags of 2016
Whether mourning the death of a musical giant, teasing presidents or launching protest movements, Africans took to social media in ...
Ethiopia Says Oromo Leader Detained For Meeting Terrorist Group In Brussels
Ethiopian authorities have clarified that leading opposition figure and Chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), Dr Merera Gudina is ...
Ethiopia To Release Over 9000 Curfew Detainees, 12,500 New Arrests Reported
Ethiopian authorities have disclosed that some 9,800 people detained under the current state of emergency will be released next week ...
Top Ethiopian Opposition Leader Arrested
A prominent opposition leader in Ethiopia has been detained after he returned from Europe. Merera Gudina had violated Ethiopia's state ...
Ethiopia Releases List of Over 11,000 State of Emergency Detainees
Ethiopia’s State of Emergency Inquiry Board has released the names and reasons of arrest for over 11,000 people believed to ...
Ethiopia’s List of Banned Activities
Ethiopia has imposed severe regulations under a new six-month "state of emergency" as it faces unprecedented levels of unrest across ...
Seven Things Banned Under Ethiopia’s State of Emergency
Ethiopia's government has declared a six-month state of emergency in the face of an unprecedented wave of violent protests. Activists ...
Dozens Killed At Ethiopia Protest
Fifty-two people were killed and many more injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region during a protest at a religious festival, the ...
‘Many Killed’ At Ethiopia Protest
Many people have been killed and injured in Ethiopia’s Oromia region after security forces fired on a major protest, witnesses ...
The Iron-Fisted Ethiopian State
A political crisis of longstanding duration has been brought to the world’s attention by the actions of a competitor at ...
African Union; The Wests Gendarme In Africa
The African Union is the west’s gendarme in Africa with it’s combined national armed forces increasingly primed to invade and ...