Ethiopia

Protests and publications that could spark violence have been banned in Ethiopia during a state of emergency imposed since last Friday which would last for six months.

A state of emergency has been declared in Ethiopia just a day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced his resignation.

The Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Hailemariam Desalegn has in a shock move tendered in his resignation without giving a reason.

The government of Ethiopia has released the country’s opposition leader, Merera Gudina from prison. He has been in detention for over a year now after his arrest in December 2016 and was freed on Wednesday, according to prison officials.

The Ethiopian government on Wednesday announced that it will release all political prisoners in the country.

Militants in Somalia have executed publicly five men they claim have been spying for Kenya and Ethiopia.

Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry will visit Addis Ababa next week for talks with his Ethiopian counterpart, a foreign ministry spokesman said, in a bid to end a standoff over a multi-billion dollar dam project on the Nile river.

Clashes between rival ethnic groups in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region has led to the deaths of more than 60 people, according to authorities.

A Dutch court has sentenced an aide to Ethiopia's former communist ruler to life imprisonment for war crimes.

Gunmen have killed a German tourist in Ethiopia’s northern remote Afar region also injuring his tour guide. On Tuesday officials in the east African country confirmed the incident saying the attack occurred on Sunday evening.