Officials from Sudan and South Sudan are set to meet in the Ethiopian capital on Thursday in a bid by the African Union (AU) to end ongoing clashes and prevent an all-out war between the two neighbours.
20120307 AFP Ethiopian rebels said Tuesday they had released two Germans held hostage since January 18 after a gunbattle that killed five other adventure tourists in the remote Afar desert region.
20120221 AFP Ethiopian troops in battle tanks thrust into rebel-held Somalia regions Tuesday, sparking heavy fighting as they advanced towards the major Shebab stronghold of Baidoa, witnesses said.
20120209 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday Ethiopia could pardon politicians and journalists arrested under a 2009 anti-terrorism law, but dismissed opposition criticism he was using the law to clamp down on dissent.
20120129 AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — African leaders have inaugurated a new $200 million headquarters that was funded by China as a gift. They say the massive complex is a symbol of China's rapidly changing role in Africa.
20120120 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Authorities in Ethiopia's northern Afar region have sent elders to try to secure the release of two German tourists and two Ethiopians kidnapped by gunmen and who the government believes are now inside Eritrea, officials said on Thursday.
20120119 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Five European tourists were killed, and two tourists and two Ethiopians were kidnapped, in an attack by gunmen in northern Ethiopia's remote Afar region, the Ethiopian government said on Wednesday.
20120118 AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Five foreign tourists were killed by unknown armed rebels in Ethiopia's restive Afar region in the country's north, Ethiopian state television reported on Tuesday.
20120118 AFP Pilot error and inexperience were behind the 2010 crash of an Ethiopian airliner in Lebanon in which all 90 people on board died, according to a report released on Tuesday by Lebanese authorities.
20111228 Press TV Two Swedish journalists have been sentenced to 11 years in prison in Ethiopia for supporting terrorism and illegally entering the African state.
20111222 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court found two Swedish journalists guilty on Wednesday of helping and promoting the outlawed Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel group, and entering the Horn of Africa nation illegally.
20111120 Reuters (Reuters) - Scores of Ethiopian military vehicles pushed at least 80 km (50 miles) into neighbouring Somalia on Saturday, residents said, five weeks after Kenya entered Somalia to fight Islamist militants it blames for a wave of kidnappings on its soil.
20111117 Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - China is set to loan Ethiopia $100 million and donate a fleet of 90 vehicles to help the African state complete its water supply projects, the Xinhua state news agency said.
20111030 Reuters (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force has been secretly flying drones from a civilian airport in southern Ethiopia as part of an aggressive campaign against al Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, the Washington Post reported on Sunday.
20111029 Press TV The United States is reportedly using a secret airfield in southern Ethiopia to carry out assassination drone attacks in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
20111020 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two Swedish journalists pleaded not guilty in an Ethiopian court on Thursday to terrorism charges after they were caught with rebels in the country's Ogaden region in July.
20110906 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has arrested 29 people, including nine opposition party members, for plotting to carry out bomb attacks in the Horn of Africa nation, a senior security official said on Monday.
20110806 Reuters ISIOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - Ethiopian raiders crossed into the northern Kenyan region of Turkana, killed eight women and stole cattle, a senior administration official said on Friday.
