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Ethiopia rights probe extended after close vote at U.N. body

Countries voted on Friday to extend a U.N.-mandated monitoring mission for a war in Ethiopia where investigators have found "reasonable grounds to believe" that parties to the conflict have committed serious rights violations, including war crimes.

Reuters

Peace talks in Ethiopian conflict are delayed, diplomats say

Diplomatic sources say African Union-sponsored peace talks to resolve Ethiopia’s two year-long Tigray conflict will not take place as planned this weekend

The Independent UK

Ethiopia peace talks delayed for logistical reasons -diplomats

African Union-led peace talks aimed at ending a two-year conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, proposed for this weekend, have been delayed for logistical reasons, two diplomatic sources said on Friday.

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Kenyatta, Obasanjo to broker AU peace talks with Ethiopia and Tigray

Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta will be heading to South Africa to join Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday as mediators for African Union-brokered peace talks between the Federal government of Ethiopia and Tigray representatives.

Radio France Internationale

Babies in Tigray dying at 4 times pre-war levels, study says

Babies in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region are dying in their first month of life at four times the rate before the war cut off access to most medical care for over 5 million people

The Independent UK

U.N. told Ethiopia in January that school hit in air strike housed displaced people -humanitarian sources

The school hit by an air strike in northern Ethiopia on Tuesday was on a list of sites housing displaced persons that the United Nations sent to Ethiopia's government in January, according to a copy of the letter seen by Reuters that was verified by an aid worker and two…

Reuters

More than 50 killed in northern Ethiopia air strike, say aid workers and Tigray forces

More than 50 people were killed in an air strike on Tuesday that hit a school in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region that was sheltering people displaced by conflict between the federal and regional governments, two aid workers and Tigray forces said.

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Ethiopia, Tigray leaders invited for talks in South Africa

A diplomat in Addis Ababa has said the African Union is still waiting for a response from the Tigrayan side.

Al Jazeera

Kinross grandmother Jo Middlemiss takes on "beautiful" skydive for charity close to her heart

Jo was raising funds for the Ethiopia Medical Project (EMP), the charity she co-founded with cousin Maureen Burnett

Daily Record

Ethiopia's Tigray leader invited to peace talks in S. Africa

The leader of Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region has been invited to peace talks in South Africa this weekend as part of a pan-African effort to end one of the world’s most overlooked wars

The Independent UK

Ethiopia, Tigrayan forces accept African Union-led peace talks

Ethiopia's government and rival Tigrayan forces said on Wednesday they have accepted an invitation by the African Union to participate in peace talks aimed at ending a two-year conflict.

Reuters

London Marathon 2022: Yalemzerf Yehualaw recovers from fall to win women’s race as Amos Kipruto is fastest man

Ethiopia's Yalemzerf Yehualaw recovered from a fall to win the women's race at the London Marathon.

Evening Standard

Amid the chaos, the WHO’s Tedros plans for the next pandemic

While Tedros has yet to catch the virus, his life, at the centre of the pandemic, has been infected by the chaos and conspiracy Covid-19 has created, writes Adam Taylor

The Independent UK

Satellite images show Eritrea military buildup near Tigray

New satellite imagery of one of the world’s most reclusive nations shows a military buildup inside Eritrea near the border with Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, backing up witness accounts of a new, large-scale offensive

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Satellite images show military build-ups in Ethiopia, Eritrea - Maxar

Satellite images show the mobilisation this month of military forces in towns on either side of Ethiopia's northern border with Eritrea, a private U.S. company said on Wednesday.

Wales Online

Warning over droughts lasting for two years amid climate crisis

Fears of rain shortages across the planet

Reuters

Shadow of war hangs over Ethiopia's Meskel festival celebrations

The shadow of war hung over Ethiopia's Meskel festival in Addis Ababa on Tuesday, with high security, low turnout and Orthodox Christian priests calling for peace and forgiveness in their sermons.

The Guardian - UK

Aida review – dour staging gains colour from the pit

Robert Carsen’s new production of Verdi’s opera of Egypt and Ethiopia has ditched the cliches of exoticism to replace them with troubling images of contemporary conflict

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U.N. food agency: debris from drone strike hit truck in northern Ethiopia

Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and injured the driver, a WFP spokesperson said on Monday.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Egypt, Sudan to Continue Intense Consultation on GERD

Egypt and Sudan agreed on Saturday to continue intense consultation and mutual coordination on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during the coming period for their common interest and the interest of their peoples. Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi received Chairman of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council, Lieutenant General Abdel…

The Guardian - UK

‘Humanitarian crime’: fighting cuts off insulin supply in Tigray

International Diabetic Federation decries reports war has led to shortages of life-saving drug at Ethiopian region’s biggest hospital

France 24

Kenya's Ruto warns of 'starvation in Horn of Africa' due to climate change

William Ruto, Kenya's new president, granted an interview to FRANCE 24's Marc Perelman on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. Ruto warned that the worst drought in 40 years risks causing starvation in the Horn of Africa, adding that "3.1 million people are facing severe drought"…

Reuters

One killed in air strike in Ethiopia's Tigray, hospital says

An air strike in the capital of Ethiopia's northern Tigray region killed one person on Friday, a hospital chief executive said, the latest in a series of strikes since fighting resumed late last month.

The Independent UK

UN experts detail extensive war crimes amid Tigray conflict

U.N.-backed investigators say they have turned up evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity by Ethiopian government forces, Tigray forces and Eritrea’s military — including rape, murder and pillage — over the nearly two-year war on Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Reuters

Nearly 1 million people face starvation in hunger hotspots - U.N. agencies

Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of aid, as the global food crisis worsens, United Nations agencies warned on Wednesday.

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