An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region. Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethiopians have begun voting in parliamentary and regional elections, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party projected to win by a ...

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, left, is welcomed by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at Addis Ababa International Airport, Ethiopia, July 14, 2018 (AP photo by Mulugeta Ayene). Tensions between ...

The Tigray Regional Council vote was procedurally straightforward – the council, aligned with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), convened, deliberated and elected a president, a speaker and ...

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More than 50 million of Ethiopia’s people are registered for the elections, but voting will not take place in the northern Tigray region, where the electoral board has cited “unfavourable conditions” ...

Tigray’s main political party has announced that it is taking back control of the region’s government, effectively ending a peace deal between Ethiopia’s federal government and the northern region.