Ethiopia

The EU on Monday said it is now imposing a tougher visa process on Ethiopia because of the African country's "insufficient" cooperation in taking back rejected asylum-seekers and irregular migrants. The move means Ethiopians will no longer…
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Ethiopia has struck a “historic” agreement to use the main port in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, as the landlocked country seeks more access to sea channels for shipping, officials said Monday. The deal on Somaliland’s Berbera…
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An air strike in Ethiopia’s Tigray region on Monday killed at least 17 people, mostly women, and wounded dozens in the town of Mai Tsebri, two aid workers told Reuters citing local authorities and eyewitnesses. Ethiopian military…
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International alarm mounted on Tuesday over the escalating war in Ethiopia as Tigrayan rebels claimed to be edging closer to the capital Addis Ababa and more foreign citizens were told to leave. US envoy Jeffrey Feltman spoke of some…
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The UN voiced alarm on Tuesday at surging arrests in Ethiopia since the country introduced a state of emergency on Nov. 2. The UN human rights agency said most of those detained in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa as well as in Gondar,…
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