Ethiopia

There have been international calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia, as rebels from the Tigray region continue their advance to the capital Addis Ababa.

A UN-led report into the year-long, bloody conflict in northern Ethiopia has found evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed by all sides.

Ethiopia’s government has declared a nationwide state of emergency as rebel forces from the Tigray and Oromo Liberation Front advance towards the capital.

Ethiopia has again launched airstrikes against the capital of the northern Tigray region. 

The Ethiopian army has launched a ground offensive against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, according to their spokesman.

Yayesh, an 18-year-old blind athlete, is defying the odds – and is determined to make it to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer. 

Ethiopia’s military has admitted it carried out yesterday’s airstrike on a busy marketplace in the northern Tigray region – which locals say killed dozens of civilians.

Aid workers in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province say dozens of people have been killed after an airstrike hit a busy market.

In Ethiopia, 37 million people are going to the polls in elections that are being billed as the first test of democracy in the country.

For the nomadic people of Ethiopia’s Afar region, an area known as the “cradle of humanity” and once famed for the discovery of a three-million-year-old fossil named Lucy, action on climate change can not come soon enough.

This evening the issue of Tigray was raised in parliament, and the UK government said that it would push for the UN and international community to carry out a credible investigation into the atrocities. We spoke with the UN’s humanitarian chief Sir Mark Lowcock and began by asking him whether aid agencies are able to…

A team from Medecins sans Frontieres has today reported witnessing Ethiopian soldiers killing civilians in Tigray. We have been speaking to Karline Kleijer, MSF’s emergency coordinator, and began by asking her to describe what her colleagues had seen.

In Ethiopia, the humanitarian crisis is deepening in the northern region of Tigray. Millions have been displaced since the war between the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrean troops on the one hand, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front began last November. Today the aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres reported that one of its teams had…

We spoke to Melat Tesfaye, from the Tigrayan Youth Network, a campaign group of young people from the region now living in the UK who are opposed to the current Ethiopean leadership.

Ethiopia’s leader has admitted for the first time that atrocities have been committed in the northern region of Tigray, claiming that soldiers who raped women or committed other war crimes would be held responsible.