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Horn of Africa Update on Coronavirus deaths as of October 11, 2020 Ethiopia deaths 1,277Somalia deaths 3,745Djibouti deaths 61Somaliland deaths…

The legal action against Boeing over two deadly crashes of its best-selling aircraft has received a major boost after the…

Hamdi Mohamed Farah, 19, was raped and thrown from a a six-floor buildingPolice say 11 suspects have been arrested, efforts…

The governing party in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has won all contested seats in elections that have further affected an…

Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region held regional elections on Wednesday, defying the federal government and increasing political tensions in Africa’s second-most…

By Desta GebremedhinBBC Tigrinya The feud between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the ruling party in the strategically important…

‘The guards just throw the bodies out back as if it was trash,’

Addis Abeba, August 26/2020 -Time and again our politics has been continuously squandering opportunities that could have otherwise facilitated the country’s…

Addis Abeba, August 25/2020 – Somali region is one of the Ethiopia’s 10 regional states, the largest in land mass with…

At least nine people have died in clashes in the Oromia region between Ethiopian security forces and protesters demanding the…

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and his rivals in Tigray are on a collision course over the latter’s plan to…

Virtual meeting attended by leaders from Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan to be held under the auspices of the African Union.…

Having previously warned that Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed risked turning into an "illegitimate" ruler, Jawar Mohammed, 34, has now…

AFP Addis Ababa (news.yahoo) – A leading opposition party representing Ethiopia’s Oromo ethnic group said Monday that five senior members…

In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe considers how Somalia has become caught up in the US…