Countries Salah-less Egypt suffer shock AFCON loss to Ethiopia Johannesburg – Egypt sorely missed injured captain Mohamed Salah as they slumped to a shock 2-0 defeat by Ethiopia on... Read more 10 Jun, 2022
Countries Ethiopia accuses aid agencies of delivering banned equipment to Tigray Addis Ababa – Ethiopia called for tighter controls on aid shipments to the country’s war-stricken Tigray region as it... Read more 6 Jun, 2022
Countries Two dead in rebel attack in southwest Ethiopia: official Addis Ababa – Rebels have killed two people and abducted three others in an attack in Ethiopia’s southwest, regional... Read more 3 Jun, 2022
Countries Arrested Ethiopian journalists ‘incited violence’, police say Addis Ababa – Ten media workers arrested in Ethiopia stand accused of fomenting ethnic and religious conflict as well as... Read more 2 Jun, 2022
Agriculture Famine looms in Horn of Africa after four seasons of poor rains, agencies say Nairobi – Four consecutive seasons of poor rains have left millions of drought-stricken people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia... Read more 31 May, 2022
Countries Dozen journalists held in Ethiopia crackdown Nairobi – At least a dozen journalists have been detained in a wave of arrests in Ethiopia, media workers... Read more 27 May, 2022
Countries Tedros, from ‘child of war’ to two-term WHO chief Geneva – Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who is all but guaranteed to secure a second term as WHO chief on... Read more 24 May, 2022
Countries Nine media workers arrested in Ethiopia raids, outlets say Nairobi – At least nine media workers in Ethiopia’s northern Amhara region have been arrested by local authorities, their... Read more 23 May, 2022
Countries Hundreds of aid trucks reach Ethiopia’s war-torn Tigray Nairobi – More than 300 aid trucks arrived in Tigray from May 10-16, the highest number to reach the impoverished... Read more 21 May, 2022
Countries Ethiopia expels The Economist correspondent Nairobi – Ethiopia has expelled The Economist’s correspondent from the east African country, accusing him of taking a “misguided... Read more 17 May, 2022