Ethiopia News

Family and supporters of Canadian citizen Bashir Makhtal will once again turn to Ottawa to seek his freedom after the supreme court of Ethiopia upheld his conviction and life sentence for terrorist activities. Family and supporters of Makhtal, who say...

However, it falls far behind her neighbours, Kenya and Rwanda, the African Report on Child Well-being 2008 showed. Youth and children affairs state minister Jessica Alupo launched the report at the Imperial Royale Hotel in Kampala yesterday. The African Child...

A new global economic forecast released by the economist magazine has placed Ethiopia as the 5th fastest economy growing country for the year 2010. The UK-based magazine predicts Qatar as the top fastest growing economies in the world, followed by...

Bob Geldof fought back tears as he visited Ethiopia on a recent trip to open a school funded by the profits of his 2004 Band Aid 20 record. Do They Know It's Christmas? was re-recorded to raise funds five years...

Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof overnight visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of children and women greeted the Irish rock star as he arrived in Korem village, some 600km...

Ethiopian military of killing and raping civilians and burning villages in the region as part of its effort to root out insurgents. The regular accusations from both sides are impossible to verify. The Ogaden region is said to contain mineral...

United Nations officials say years of drought and war, as well as high food prices and the global financial crisis, have made the Horn of Africa one of the most critical hunger areas in the world, with 23-million people not...

An American who was captured by Kenyan forces in January 2007 filed suit in U.S. District Court in Washington on Tuesday, arguing that FBI agents allegedly involved in his interrogation and transfer to other countries violated his constitutional rights. The...

The African Union (AU) said on Saturday it would not re-admit Madagascar until a newly agreed power-sharing government was in place and fresh elections in the pipeline. Earlier, the island's rivals signed a deal under which coup-instigator Andry Rajoelina would...

African demands for climate-change compensation and emission cuts by rich nations are unlikely to be met in next month's Copenhagen summit, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Tuesday. "We have only a few weeks between now and Copenhagen ......