Category: Politics
Outgoing United States Ambassador to Ethiopia Michael Raynor called for humanitarian assistance programs to be accelerated in the country’s Tigray region. As he prepares to finish his term next week, the ambassador said that after almost three months of the…
Adem Mohammed, the departing Military’s Chief of Staff, is to become Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Turkey, according to sources. Adem would replace Girma Temesgen, who was appointed in October 2018. General Adem Mohammed had served as Chief of General Staff of…
Six of the ten charges brought against Jawar Mohammed, Bekele Gerba, and 22 other individuals arrested in a relation to a wave of ethnic unrest that followed the murder in June 2020 of popular musician Hachalu Hundessa were dropped on…
Three senior members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), including former foreign minister, Seyoum Mesfin had been killed, the Ethiopian Defense Forces (EDF) announced on Wednesday. Seyoum Mesfin alongside Asmelash Woldeselassie, ex-parliamentary chief whip, Abay Tsehaye, former federal affairs…
The new caretaker administration of the Tigray region appointed after the House of Federation had decided to dissolve the regional government following the start of the armed conflict on November 4, has officially taken office. The administration that placed a…
A senior official of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), Addisalem Balema appeared in court on Thursday a few days after being detained amid a month of conflict in the northern Tigray region. Addisalem Balema, who has served in a…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told parliament on Monday that a general in Ethiopia’s federal military’s Northern Command could have been poisoned. Two weeks before the launch of a military operation against Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), General Diriba, the commander…
Around 70 clandestine burial pits were found in the premises of Humera airport in the Tigray region, Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) said on Sunday. The grave where the bodies were buried was found in the southern part of the airport’s…
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of military operations in Tigray on Saturday evening after the government soldiers entered the regional capital, Mekelle. “I am pleased to share that we have completed and ceased the military operations in…
The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) says at least 600 civilians have been killed in a massacre in the town of Maikadra, a small town located in the western Tigray region, confirming killings first reported by human rights group Amnesty…