Ethiopia’s prime minister has promised “immediate access” for humanitarian groups to Tigray, the United Nations said on Friday, after the United States and the European Union compared the Ethiopian government’s current treatment of the embattled region to a “siege.”The...
Ethiopia's federal government on Monday declared a "unilateral ceasefire" in its war-torn Tigray region, state media reported, as rebel fighters entered the regional capital Mekele sparking celebrations on the streets.The dramatic reversal for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's forces signalled...
A magistrate’s court in Uganda has charged two men with the murders of the daughter and driver of the country’s Transport Minister Edward Katumba Wamala in June.A 38-year-old motorcycle rider and a 46-year-old herbalist have been charged for the...
Ethiopia’s military on Thursday said it was responsible for a deadly airstrike on a busy marketplace in the country’s Tigray region. Health workers said the attack killed at least 64 people, including children, but the military insisted only combatants...
A police official in Kenya says 17 soldiers have died when the helicopter they were travelling in for a training exercise crashed in the outskirts of the capital, Nairobi.Six people with severe injuries were rescued from the scene in...
The European Union and the United States have condemned an airstrike said to have been carried out by the Ethiopian air force leaving dozens of civilian casualties at a village market near Tigray's capital, Mekelle.The EU has called the...
At least 14 people were killed and more than 30 others wounded in a cattle raid in South Sudan's Lakes State, local media report.The state police spokesperson, Capt Elijah Mabor Makuac, said armed youths from the Pakam community attacked...
Paul Rusesabagina, the ex-hotelier immortalised in the film “Hotel Rwanda”, never belonged to a rebel group that sought to overthrow President Paul Kagame, one of the former rebels accused with him of terrorism told a court on Wednesday.“Rusesabagina was...
Several people has been killed and others injured in an airstrike in a town in Togoga, about 25km (15.5 miles) south of Mekelle in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.An eyewitness at Alder referral hospital said that he was struck in the...
Sudan has once again urged the UN to replace Ethiopian peacekeepers in the disputed Abyei region, on the Sudan-South Sudan border, with another force from different countries, the state-owned Suna news agency has reported.The proposal came during a meeting...
