Ethiopia has officially opened the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a megaproject under construction for over a decade and a half, and is Africa’s largest hydroelectric power station. A hulking ...

A young Sudanese refugee prepares a meal next to her shelter in the Farchana refugee camp, on April 7, 2024. [Photo by Joris Bolomey / AFP) Across East Africa, cycles of liberation and repression have ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's deputy prime minister Demeke Mekonnen, who has occupied the post for over 11 years under three successive prime ministers, will be replaced by spy chief Temesgen ...

Just over a decade ago as he appeared on a panel at the World Economic Forum on Africa in Addis Ababa, the late Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was asked by journalist Robyn Curnow about the ...

This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Eritrea’s independence. There was optimism when Eritrea won independence. After years of fighting culminated in the defeat of Ethiopia’s Marxist ...

Hopes for peace in Ethiopia have been revived with the signing of a peace treaty—as the signatories have called it—between the Ethiopian government and the leaders of the Tigray Peoples Liberation ...

Ethiopia, the most historically important country in Africa has been plagued by serious political crisis eventuating in cruel civil war in which Tigray, a rebellious state is fighting against the ...

This blog was originally posted on NewSecurityBeat, a blog of the Environmental Change and Security Program at the Wilson Center. Deteriorating security in Ethiopia, a country W.E.B. Dubois once ...

Joe Biden doesn’t need a running mate who has shown such poor judgment. By Bret Stephens The reforms by the country’s new prime minister are clashing with its flawed Constitution and could push the ...

Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s leader since 1991, was buried in Addis Ababa on Sept 2 in the cathedral where the emperor Menelik II was laid to rest in 1916. The sudden death, age 57, of Africa’s most ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Thousands of mourners gathered near a public square in Ethiopia’s capital on Sunday to pay their final respects to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who was praised for lifting ...