Somalia has been angered by landlocked Ethiopia's decision to reach a deal with Somaliland to give it access to a port.

Many of those taking one of the two daily flights from Asmara to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, travel on from there to ...

Starvation in war-stricken Sudan "is almost everywhere", the World Health Organization (WHO) has told the BBC's Today ...

Ethiopia has said Egypt “must abandon its aggressive approach” towards a controversial hydroelectric dam on the River Nile as ...

“It will be in the port of Tadjoura - 100km [62 miles] from the Ethiopia border,” Mahmoud Ali Youssouf told BBC Focus on Africa TV ... according to the Reuters news agency.

It is also infuriated by reports that in return for use of a port, Ethiopia would become the first country to recognise Somaliland as a sovereign nation. Both the African Union (AU) and the US ...

Reports from northern Ethiopia say at least 12 people have ... Go to BBCAfrica.com for more news from the African continent.

The Horn of Africa ... Ethiopia," said Kristalina Georgieva, the IMF’s managing director, adding that it was “a testament to Ethiopia’s strong commitment to transformative reform”. News ...

It was all part of the entertainment for those attending the China-Africa summit. On Saturday, Namibia's Lahja Ishitile ...

Many of them - including South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa and Kenya's William Ruto - held one-to-one meetings with ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved a bailout of $3.4bn (£2.6bn) for Ethiopia to support its economic reforms over the next four years. The Horn of Africa nation has been ...

There were celebrations in the Eritrean capital when the first commercial flight from Ethiopia ... rest of Africa, Europe and North America. Several travellers in Eritrea told the BBC that they ...