At least 45 civilians were killed in door-to-door raids by Ethiopian troops last month, a rights body says. Ethiopia's human rights watchdog says government forces carried out a massacre of ...

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Political protests which have swept through Ethiopia are a major threat to the country's secretive government, writes former BBC Ethiopia correspondent Elizabeth Blunt.

Getachew Reda was speaking as the TPLF and Ethiopia's federal government are working out the implementation of a deal signed earlier this month ending hostilities in the two-year-long civil war.

The stability of the Horn of Africa in part rests on a peaceful resolution to Ethiopia's civil war.

Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, it has never been colonised.

Shelving a controversial plan to expand Ethiopia's capital is a major retreat for the government but a sign of the ruling coalition's political maturity, writes the BBC's Mathias Muindi.

Thirty years ago, at the end of November 1984, there was one disaster above all galvanising the world's attention - the famine in Ethiopia, which was eventually to kill up to a million people.

The BBC World Service has launched three websites for Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea as part of its biggest expansion since the 1940s. The sites would be a "source of truth" in a region with ...

During a year of anti-government protests throughout Ethiopia, its global diaspora, particularly that in the US, has been deeply involved - and not just vocally, writes Addis Ababa-based ...

It is 30 years since Ethiopia was in the grip of one of the worst famines to ever hit the country. Shocking pictures filmed by a BBC News team sparked a global effort to raise funds to help.

2nd century AD - Kingdom of Axum becomes a regional trading power. 4th century - Christianity becomes state religion. 1530-31 - Muslim leader Ahmad Gran conquers much of Ethiopia. 1818-68 - Lij ...