Ethiopia says it has completed building a mega-dam on the Blue Nile that has long been a source of tension with Egypt and ...

BBC News. Share Save. Getty Images. Ethiopians are marking the start of a new year, ... Inside 'Africa's Mecca' How Ethiopia has changed over the last 50 years; A quick guide to Ethiopia. Ethiopia.

If, as Somaliland said, Ethiopia has agreed to recognise it at some point, it would have a profound impact on the Horn of Africa region. Why does Ethiopia want the deal?

Africa Live: BBC news updates. Why so many people try to flee Eritrea. Eritrea celebrates 25 years of independence. What sparked the clashes? Emmanuel Igunza, BBC Ethiopia correspondent: ...

Trhas Tesfay was a champion cyclist in Ethiopia but came to the UK last year to seek asylum. Kalkidan Yibeltal BBC News, Addis Ababa Fighting has flared up in one of the disputed areas between ...

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.

Keep up-to-date with the latest news by listening to the BBC World Service and check our story on the BBC News website.. Here is a recap of what we know so far: An Ethiopian Airlines jet bound for ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea are on opposite sides of the Somalia conflict Could Ethiopia's attack on alleged rebel bases over the border inside Eritrea herald the start of a new war in the Horn of Africa ...

A group of Ethiopian slaves were freed by a British warship in the 19th Century and eventually taken to freedom in South Africa - among them the grandmother of South African educationalist Neville ...

"Previously, the oldest fossil attributed to the genus Homo was an upper jaw from Hadar, Ethiopia, dated to 2.35m years ago," he told BBC News. "So this new discovery pushes the human line back by ...

Italy tried to invade Ethiopia, or Abyssinia as it was also known, in 1895, when European powers were carving up the African continent between themselves - but it went on to suffer a humiliating ...

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