Tag: Eritrea
US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute
CAIRO — The U.S. envoy for the Horn of Africa on Wednesday met with the Egyptian president as part of Washington's new push to...
Ethiopia ‘at a crossroads’ amid spiraling ethnic conflict
GONDAR, Ethiopia — Aba Yosief Desta preferred not to discuss the ethnicities of victims in the widening conflicts threatening Ethiopia's unity.
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Eritrea’s president visits Sudan amid tensions over Ethiopia
CAIRO — Eritrea’s president arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday for talks with Sudanese officials amid tensions over a longtime border dispute between Sudan and...
Analysis: Attack on Iran ship off Yemen escalates shadow war
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — An attack this week on an Iranian cargo ship that is said to serve as a floating base for...
‘Leave no Tigrayan’: In Ethiopia, an ethnicity is erased
HAMDAYET, Sudan — The atrocities have been seared into the skin and the minds of Tigrayans, who take shelter by the thousands within sight...
UN, Ethiopia rights agency to conduct joint Tigray probe
KAMPALA, Uganda — The United Nations and an Ethiopian rights agency said on Thursday they had agreed to carry out a joint investigation into...
Protest in South Africa over conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray
JOHANNESBURG — Members of Ethiopia's Tigrayan community in South Africa demonstrated in the capital in a bid to bring international attention to the humanitarian...
Eritrea says EU sanctions on security agency are ‘malicious’
KAMPALA, Uganda — Eritrean authorities described European Union sanctions targeting a security agency Monday as “malicious” and charged the EU with having “ulterior motives.”
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Ethiopia denies ‘ethnic cleansing,’ is open to outside probe
KAMPALA, Uganda — The Ethiopian government is disputing charges of ethnic cleansing in the Tigray conflict, calling allegations by the United States “unfounded."
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Ethiopia’s leader faces intense pressure to end Tigray war
KAMPALA, Uganda — Ethiopia's government on Thursday faced mounting pressure to withdraw troops from the northern region of Tigray amid growing reports of war...