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Ethiopian regime to get EU migrants' names (euobserver)
Ethiopia is negotiating a deal with the European Union to deport nationals without the proper paperwork back to the east African country.
The discussions include dispatching agents from Ethiopia’s intelligence and security agency to EU...
African U.N. envoys suggest Trump meet leaders in Ethiopia after 'shithole' remark (Reuters)
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – African U.N. envoys suggested on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump meet with African leaders in Ethiopia this month after he was reported to have described some immigrants from Africa and Haiti as coming...
Merera Gudina, Ethiopia opposition leader, freed (BBC)
Jailed Ethiopian opposition leader Merera Gudina has been freed after more than a year in detention.
The leader of the Oromo Federalist Congress was released on Wednesday morning and allowed to go home, where he was welcomed by thousands of...
Why are tensions rising in the Red Sea region? (AL JAZEERA)
Tensions in the Red Sea region have been brewing for months but came to the fore when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Sudan last month.
The visit, hailed as historic, was the first by a Turkish head of state since 1956 when Sudangained...
Statement of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission on Recent Developments in Ethiopia (AU)
Addis Ababa, 4 January 2018: The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, welcomes the announcement made by the Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Repubic of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn, pardoning or suspending...
Ethiopia to free jailed politicians to 'foster national reconciliation': PM (Reuters)
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia will release and pardon dissident politicians jailed on criminal charges, its prime minister said on Wednesday — an unexpected shift in stance from a government routinely accused by rights groups...