Ethiopia

Source:  UN OCHA HIGHLIGHTS Malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women screened during the week is unprecedently high with 79% of some 15,000 women diagnosed with acute malnutrition in Tigray. Huge price hike due to severe shortages of essential commodities in Tigray. Some 126,000 people received food...

Djibouti based investors have made a three days investment visits to Ethiopia in a bid to best exploit and add value to the untapped massive livestock resource of the East African nation, says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA). The investors held several discussions with...

By: BBC AFRICA US President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to allow targeted sanctions to be imposed against individuals and groups perpetrating violence and impeding humanitarian aid in Ethiopia. No individuals or entities were named. But it is the strongest warning yet from the US...

By:BBC AFRICA More than 100 trucks of food aid have arrived in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region after weeks of the blockade, the World Food Programme (WFP) has said. It has had difficulty getting the aid through to the region. Tigray has been destabilised by a 10-month conflict...

By:@MoDuale Somaliland president Muse Bihi Abdi on Friday received Ethiopian State Minister political Affairs Redwan Hussien accompanied by Ethiopian Ambassador to Somaliland, Amb Said Mohamed, at his residence at the Presidential palace. The two sides discussed security and immigration issues at border areas and ways to...

By: MoDuale Ethiopia's state minister of foreign affairs Redwan Hussein has arrived in Hargeisa for an official working visit. Upon arrival at the Hargeisa Egal International Airport, he was received by Somaliland Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Liban Yousuf Osman https://twitter.com/RedwanHussien/status/1433397398919864321?s=19 During his visit, The...

By: BBC AFRICA The war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has forced more than 1.42 million students out of school and damaged more than 7,000 schools, the country's education minister says. Getahun Mekuria said neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions had also been affected as the fighting...

By: BBC AFRICA Rebel forces from Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region have accused the African Union of bias, days after the bloc appointed the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as a mediator. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Getachew Reda, accused the AU of...

By:REUTERS  U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the Security Council on Thursday that a conflict in Ethiopia has spread beyond the northern Tigray region and "a humanitarian catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes." Ethiopia has been embroiled in a conflict that flared nine months ago in Tigray...

By:BBC AFRICA It has been two months since electricity, telephone, internet, banking and transport services were cut in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region. Since then, it has become increasingly difficult to get information about the situation in Tigray. But some, who have managed to reach an area close...