Along with the war, the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and supply chain disruption exacerbated the economic development challenges. Some of the industrial zones in areas of conflict are now difficult to ...

Writing in Al Jazeera on Monday, Teshome, Ethiopia’s president from 2013 to 2018, who is considered a close ally of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, accused Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki of ...

Among the dead were between 4,000 and 5,000 members of the educated elite, individuals destined to shape Ethiopia’s modernization and steer the country in a new direction. One of Italy’s most ...

Eritrea's Ministry of Information has issued a statement rejecting accusations by Mulatu Teshome, Ethiopia's former president and a close ally of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, accusing Eritrea of ...

Avera Mengistu, an Ethiopian-born Israeli, was detained in 2014 after crossing into Gaza on his own.

How did Ethiopia fall into dictatorship and war? The Derg seized power in 1974, overthrowing Emperor Haile Selassie - but their rule led to mass killings, economic collapse, and conflict. Discover how ...

Curbing elite divisions is key to preventing catastrophe, restoring unity. The Amhara and Oromo ethnicities are two of Ethiopia’s 86 ethnic groups, together constituting 67 perc ...

Senior military officials have taken sides in a rancorous dispute between the region’s political leaders, as shifting ...

In a piece published on Al Jazeera on February 17, 2025, Mulatu Teshome, a former president of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE), made misleading assertions riddled with both ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is likely not displeased with the chaos within the TPLF, observers have said. After the end of the Tigray War in 2022, Abiy rejected Debretsion as president of ...

At Tel Aviv’s makeshift Hostage Square, a clock counts the days, hours, minutes and seconds that Hamas has held captives ...