2020

The bloc wants Ethiopia’s government to cease hostilities and allow humanitarian access to the Tigray region. The European Union has suspended nearly €90 million in budgetary aid to Ethiopia because of the internal conflict in the country’s Tigray region, according to a Commission document seen by POLITICO. The delay in financial support is aimed at addressing the […]

Addis Getachew   |18.12.2020 Sudan’s prime minister claims Ethiopian militia attacked military patrol inside country. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Thursday played down clashes that reportedly took place this week at a border area between Sudan and Ethiopia. “The gov’t is closely following the incident with local militia on the Ethio-Sudan border,” Abiy said

Sudan sent military reinforcements to its border with Ethiopia after it said an army unit was ambushed in the area by militiamen linked to the Ethiopian army, killing an officer and soldiers. Sudan and Ethiopia have had a long history of border disputes that occasionally flare into armed clashes. The latest incident, on Saturday, followed

Compared to the Covid-19 crisis which shook the world, Africa remains to this day the least affected continent: 271,000 cases “only” for a population of nearly 1.3 billion inhabitants, i.e. a low infection rate of 0.2% of the population. According to official figures, therefore, the virus is spreading very slowly in Africa. A situation undoubtedly

The Queen of Sheba December 14, 2020 Following an incident involving the Ethiopian army and the UN staff, which the international organization apologized for, this author wrote an earlier piece under a heading “The Rude Outlaw: The UN Staff or the Ethiopian Army?”. That story narrated how the UN staff broke the terms of its

The conflict between the central power and the dissident region of Tigray, which now extends to Eritrea, is at the center of an intense diplomatic sweep. While Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni claims to be directly involved, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo is announced in Addis Ababa for a mediation mission. Olusegun Obasanjo “is on his