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 ...

Africa editor, BBC World Service News. ... Diplomats are warning of a civilian bloodbath in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray if rebels are pushed out of towns by Ethiopian and Eritrean troops.

Role, BBC News 2 November 2022 A surprise deal has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict which led to thousands of deaths and warnings of ...

It was formally reopened in 2018, shortly after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power and signed a historic peace ...

More than 200 people have starved to death since July in Edaga Arbi town, in Ethiopia's drought-hit and war-scarred Tigray region, local authorities say. Another 16 have died in nearby Adwa town ...

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.

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.

The world is also distracted by conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine and less attention and funding is being targeted at Ethiopia. The head of the UN here, Ramiz Alakbarov, said this was a ...

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

Radio Ethiopia, external - state-owned, operates National Service and regional stations Voice of Tigray Revolution - Tigray Regional State government radio Radio Fana , external - founded in 1994 ...

Forty years ago, a BBC news report shook the world – and kickstarted white saviourism. By October 1984, drought and conflict in a remote part of northern Ethiopia had left millions on the brink ...

1941 - During World War Two, the region is freed from fascist rule by British and Ethiopian forces. 1942-52 - British administration of Eritrea as UN trust territory.