Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — The United States will provide an additional $91 million in humanitarian aid for Ethiopia to cope with a third straight year of drought, the top U.S. official in charge of assistance said Thursday. The extra funding brings U.S. aid for food and medical care in Ethiopia to $454 million this year, said […]

The route, across the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, takes them through Yemen, one of the world’s most dangerous war zones, where airstrikes and mortar shelling have become routine, and a cholera outbreak has affected more than 400,000 people. The migrants — average age 16 — were fleeing two desperate places, Ethiopia and Somalia. They were […]

Islamist militant group al Shabaab on Sunday seized control of yet another town in central Somalia after it was abandoned by African Union Peacekeepers, a militant spokesman and a local official said, the third to fall to insurgents this month. On Sunday, an Ethiopian contingent abandoned the town of Halgan in the Hiran region, allowing […]

A US citizen has been killed in Ethiopia amid large anti-government protests. A van travelling on Addis Ababa’s outskirts was hit by stones “thrown by unknown individuals”, the US embassy in the capital said. A woman passenger was struck by a stone and died later from her injuries. A wave of protests have killed hundreds […]

Several people are feared dead in clashes in north-western Ethiopia between police and anti-government protesters, amid a wave of unrest. On Friday police arrested dozens of demonstrators during massive rallies in the capital, Addis Ababa. Since last November the government has been facing protests from the two largest ethnic communities over alleged human rights abuses […]

The Ethiopian military has located more than 100 children believed to have been abducted by South Sudanese gunmen last week, local media reported on Wednesday, and is in the process of carrying out a large-scale cross-border operation to retrieve them. A government minister told AFP on Wednesday that troops had crossed into South Sudan to search for […]

The death toll from a raid carried out by attackers from South Sudan in western Ethiopia has risen to 208 people, an Ethiopian official said, adding that 108 children were kidnapped. By Sunday afternoon, the number had risen to “208 dead and 75 people wounded” from a figure of 140 a day earlier, government spokesman […]

Operation Linda Nchi, an ongoing coordinated military operation between the Kenyan military and the Somalian military, is the official reason why the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) are in Somalia, but is there another agenda?

While the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were splashed across the front pages of newspapers, early on in the War on Terror a more clandestine type of war was being waged in Africa by the CIA and JSOC, a war that included blended teams from SEAL Team Six, Delta Force, Task Force Orange, and the […]