The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday appealed for 116.5 million U.S. dollars funding to help 2.3 million vulnerable Ethiopians.

ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA - Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, the electoral board said Friday, as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed seeks to quell political and ethnic violence in several regions.

The office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Tuesday said it has deployed humanitarian assessment teams to the troubled Tigray region in northern Ethiopia.

EEPA Report on Horn of Africa Situation on December 24

The meeting between the authorities of the two countries to demarcate the land border came a week after the attack on a Sudanese army patrol by Ethiopian forces on December 15. The failure of talks may lead to more clashes

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Thursday said his country is providing more than $18 million to Ethiopia in support of the country’s rehabilitation activities.Secretary Pompeo said the donation is extended in humanitarian assistance to help refugees and host communities affected by the law enforcement operation in Tigray region.

While some of the detained were supposedly "involved in the security crisis", others had been arrested as they allegedly failed to fulfil their responsibilities

Growing attacks on vessels in the Gulf of Guinea has had negative impact on the Nigerian maritime industry.

Diplomats are taking measures to free the Ukrainian citizens.

Over 300 boys kidnapped from a school in Nigeria are travelling back home under military escort after being released by their captors.

The demonstrators stormed Wuse Market chanting anti-government songs to demand the release of their leader, Ibraheem El-zakzaky, who has been held since December 2015.

Armed group claims responsibility for abduction of more than 300 schoolboys in northwest Nigeria, AFP reports.

Nigerian authorities on Sunday stepped up efforts to rescue students abducted by armed men who raided their hostels.

Despite Nigeria’s vast humanitarian crisis, it is also playing host to over 61,000 refugees and asylum seekers from neighbouring countries, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has stated.

The Norwegian Ambassador has disclosed that his country hopes to maintain and strengthen the bilateral relations between both countries.

Nigeria’s Cold War-era Fishbed jets are up for grabs after many years of being grounded.

OPEC said Nigeria’s crude oil export earnings, which had dropped by 77% between January and April 2020, rebounded by 116% in November.

The Governor of Borno, Prof. Babagana Zulum, has pleaded with the Federal Government to help about 200,000 Nigerian refugees of Borno origin in Niger, Cameroon and Chad republics to return home.

Claire Pierangelo, Consular General, U. S. Embassy, said the U. S. was committed to supporting the navy in its effort to secure its territorial waters and Gulf of Guinea.

The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor said Friday she had enough evidence to open a full probe into ongoing violence in Nigeria by both Islamist insurgents and security forces.