NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s rival Tigray forces raped or gang-raped local women after attacking a community in the Amhara region as they pushed toward the country’s capital, a new Amnesty ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The ...

As tensions escalate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, would new conflict position Addis Ababa against Tigray’s leadership?

The Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) has called on the federal government to urgently investigate a surge in civilian ...

Fighting between Ethiopia’s military and militiamen in the Amhara region has killed at least 183 people, the UN human rights office said on Tuesday, providing the most comprehensive independent death ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency on 4 August 2023 and sent the military into the Amhara region to engage the ...

Wizeru Mesfin says that membership in the self-help group and access to financing “gives me hope that I never had before." Photo: Petterik Wiggers/Oxfam A network of women's groups is helping women ...

Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, ...

We are living in an age of autocrats — leaders who sit at varying points along a spectrum of repression and violence. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is among this malevolent list — not widely ...