The Latest Breaking News from Ethiopia

Nearly 600 million people across the African continent still lack access to electricity. Close to one billion rely on traditional biofuels for cooking. Africa is also very vulnerable to climate change, even though it has contributed less than 5% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions over the past 170 years.…

The human ancestor fossil known as Lucy has left Ethiopia for display in a European museum

The death toll from a migrant boat disaster off Yemen has climbed to 96, underscoring the growing human cost of perilous journeys across the Red Sea.

The deadly shipwreck in waters off Yemen’s coast over the weekend is weighing heavily on the hearts of many in Ethiopia

A shipwreck off Yemen’s southern coast has killed at least 76 people, with dozens still missing. Most of those on board were Ethiopian migrants fleeing poverty and conflict in search of work in wealthy Gulf countries.

Letters: The use of starvation as a weapon is nothing new, writes Gail Warden

Research documents ‘horrific and extreme’ attacks by Ethiopian and Eritrean forces and warns that impunity has meant such atrocities are expanding to new regions

Ethiopia has launched a national campaign to plant 700 million trees in one day

Across most of Africa, rural communities grow their own food, relying on smallholder agriculture. But climate change is threatening this way of life.