Ethiopia

Kinshasa welcomes, from this Saturday, April 3 through Monday, a new round of negotiations around the construction site for the Renaissance dam. The Egyptian, Ethiopian and Sudanese foreign ministers will be present. Ethiopia has been building Africa's largest dam since 2011 on the Nile. Sudan and Egypt in particular fear an impact on their vital water reserves. Congolese President Félix Tshisekedi…

The G-7 group of leading economic powers on Friday called for a "rapid, unconditional and verifiable" withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Ethiopia's conflict-torn northern Tigray region. "We welcome the announcement by Prime Minister Abiy that Eritrean forces will withdraw from Tigray," the G-7 foreign ministers said in a statement released in Berlin, referring to Ethiopian leader Abiy Ahmed. "This process must be fast, unconditional and verifiable." Ministers called for "an end to the violence and the…

In Ethiopia, after months of denials, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed acknowledged that the Eritrean army was participating in the fighting in Tigray against the TPLF. Today, the veil is beginning to lift over the reality of Asmara's soldiers, including minors, being sent to fight in Ethiopia. Like the story of Rodanim, a high school student forcibly recruited and now a prisoner of the Tigrayan uprising.…

ASMARA - Eritrean Defense Forces will leave the conflict-ridden Tigray region in recent months following an operation by Ethiopian National Defense Forces. leading to a massive humanitarian crisis. Eritrean forces joined the conflict after the Tigray People's Liberation Front launched missiles targeting Asmara to the capital of the Red Sea country. It is not clear why the TPLF attacked Eritrea at the time. But on Thursday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki agreed to withdraw…

For the first time since the conflict began in Tigrayan last November, a team from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees was able to visit the Eritrean refugee camps in the northern Ethiopian region. The UN agency confirms that two of these camps, Shimelba and Hitsats, have been completely destroyed. The 20,000 passengers in the two camps were scattered throughout Ethiopia. The UNHCR must therefore find an urgent solution for thousands of refugees, as Boris Cheshirkov, its spokesman for East Africa, explains. What…

In Ethiopia, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the withdrawal of Eritrean troops from Tigray province, which has been at war since November 4. A turnaround, for until Tuesday he had denied their presence. However, the Eritrean army is accused by the international community of committing massacres, looting and rape. How do you explain this turnaround? Decryption with Roland Marchal, researcher at…

Eritrea will withdraw its troops from Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, a potential breakthrough in a protracted conflict that has seen atrocities against civilians. The announcement comes as Abiy, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2019, faces increasing pressure to end fighting in which both Eritrean and Ethiopian troops are accused of abuses, including mass murder and rape. Abiy sent troops to Tigray on November 4 after blaming the region's once dominant ruling…

Four months after the hostilities began, fighting in rural Tigrayan continues between the Ethiopian army and the Tigray people's liberation front. Another player in the conflict, the Eritrean army, sowed terror among the peoples. After months of denial, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has just acknowledged (yesterday in response to questions from parliamentarians about the situation in the country)…

Médecins Sans Frontières: Ethiopian troops stopped buses to execute men The Médecins Sans Frontières medical charity says it witnessed Ethiopian soldiers executing at least four men in the country's Tigray region. The troops allegedly killed the men after forcing them out of civilian buses. Médecins Sans Frontières, commonly referred to as the French initials MSF, said in a…

The UN and an Ethiopian rights agency said on Thursday that they had agreed to conduct a joint investigation into abuses in the fought Tigray region, where fighting continues as government troops chase the region's fleeing leaders. An investigation of all parties to the conflict is "part of the much-needed responsibility process" for the victims of the conflict, the government-established Ethiopian Human Rights Commission and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a statement. "With several…