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Facebook says it has removed a post by Ethiopia’s prime minister that urged citizens to rise up and “bury” the rival Tigray forces who now threaten the capital as the country’s war reaches the one-year mark.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s post on Sunday vi...

Ethiopia Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of brutal fighting between government forces and regional Amhara militiamen aligned with Eritrean forces against rebels in the northern Tigray region. Now, Tigrayan forces say they are advancing on the c...

Citing "gross violations of internationally recognized human rights," the United States on Tuesday said it suspended Ethiopia’s duty-free access to the U.S. market.Mali and Guinea will also lose access under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA...

UNITED NATIONS— Mediators hope the “contours” of a way out of the crisis in Sudan could emerge in the coming days, the UN special envoy said.General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan toppled Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s cabinet a week ago and arrested key poli...

ATHENS— Greece has claimed that Turkey broke an EU refugee deal by refusing to take back a vessel carrying nearly 400 migrants which had to be rescued by Greek authorities over the weekend.On Sunday, 382 people disembarked from the Turkish-flagged carg...

GLASGOW— The years from 2015 to 2021 are on track to be the seven hottest on record, the World Meteorological Organization said, warning that the planet was heading into “uncharted territory”. The preliminary WMO state of the climate report, launched ...

Two different groups fighting Ethiopia’s central government said they had seized control of towns Sunday as the prime minister appealed for citizens to take up arms.The spreading conflict threatens to further destabilize Africa’s second-most-populous n...

The United Nations discussed possible steps forward with ousted Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok Sunday, a day after hundreds of thousands of people marched in protest of last week’s military coup.Volker Perthes, the U.N. special representative t...