Ethiopia is sliding back toward war – a look at what is driving the fighting and why it matters

An offensive in the Tigray region followed months of aerial strikes by the Ethiopian government. The situation could spark a ...
Al Jazeera English

Ethiopian armed groups forge alliance against government

Seven Ethiopian armed groups have formed an alliance aimed at overthrowing the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. The groups announced the alliance on Sunday, saying that they would work ...
Washingtonian

Where to Eat Ethiopian Food Around the DC Area Right Now

I have sometimes argued that there is no such thing as a bad Ethiopian restaurant. Maybe they exist in the wilds of America outside the DC area, but it’s certainly hard to find one in Silver Spring, ...
The Africa Report

Fano’s Kingdom: Inside the insurrection in northern Ethiopia

The highlands of north-west Ethiopia are being ravaged by one of the world’s most invisible wars. Since 2023, an insurgency led by Amhara nationalists – from the country’s second-largest ethnic group ...
Telecoms

ZTE beefs up Ethio Telecom's network and finances smartphones

Ethio Telecom this week trumpeted new "strategic discussions" between its CEO Frehiwot Tamru and senior leadership at ZTE, but unusually for this type of announcement there was more to it than merely ...
Al Jazeera English

Northern Ethiopia’s shifting alliances explained

Between 2020 and 2022, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) fought a bloody war against Ethiopia’s federal government and its allies in Eritrea and the Amhara militias known as Fano. Less than ...
Amnesty

Ethiopia: Tigray residents at renewed risk of human rights violations as violence returns to the region

In response to the violent clashes in parts of Tigray – Ethiopia’s northern region – between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on 1 August, Amnesty International’s ...
The Times of Israel

Alisa would have wanted this

When Alisa Flatow of West Orange was murdered on a bus in Israel in 1995, the terrorists who killed her also killed an entire world — a world of possibility, of creativity, of family and joy and love ...
csis.org

After the Supermajority: Ethiopia’s Trajectory Following the 2026 Election

Ethiopia held its general elections on June 1, and with the majority of votes now finalized, all signs point to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali’s Prosperity Party having secured a vast majority. While ...
CNN

Ethiopia’s PM won a Nobel Peace Prize, stoked a civil war - and is set for re-election

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...
Science Daily

Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...