Ethiopia

Police on Sunday arrested 40 Oromos for holding an illegal meeting at City Park in Nairobi. Gigiri OCPD Vitalis Otieno said the men assembled at the park without notifying police. He added that the public called the police when the group became rowdy. “Some of them are...

The Embassy of the United States in Ethiopia announced the arrival of 1,552,590 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, which the U.S is sharing with Ethiopia through COVAX. This new donation brings the total number of COVID-19 vaccines provided to Ethiopia by the U.S. to around...

By: Mohamad Duale twitter: @MoDuale Ethiopia's confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 968 after 137 more cases were confirmed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Friday. The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Friday, revealed that from the total of  5,015...

By: BBC News Twenty people have died in a bus crash in southern Ethiopia with more than 30 others sustaining injuries, the local authorities have said. The accident happened in the country’s Oromia...

By: BBC AFRICA The African Development Bank (AfDB) will "immediately" withdraw all its international employees from Ethiopia following an assault on its workers by government security forces, the institution says. https://twitter.com/AfDB_Group/status/1737407345469141111

By: THE NATIONAL Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have agreed to "urgently" resume negotiations on their dispute over a vast Nile dam being built by Addis Ababa, the Egyptian presidency said on Thursday.

By Mohamud Bulhan in Godoria & Natasha Booty in London, BBC News At least 33 Ethiopian migrants - including an eight-year-old boy - have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti, officials have told...