Before sunrise most mornings, crowds of young Ethiopians gather at Addis Ababa’s bus terminals, boarding routes toward Djibouti, Sudan, and points beyond. Many carry university degrees but little hope that the country can offer them stable work, safety, or a future. For a 24-year-old marketing graduate now stranded in Libya […]
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Advocacy Campaign Says Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christians Face Existential Threat, Calls for International Action
A newly launched advocacy campaign is urging governments, faith groups, and international institutions to intervene on behalf of Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian community, arguing that years of documented violence, church destruction, and official rhetoric add up to a coordinated campaign against the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC). The campaign, detailed in […]
Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party Claims Landslide Victory in Disputed General Election
Opposition groups denounce the vote as a “sham election” amid allegations of irregularities and restricted competition Addis Ababa — Ethiopia’s National Electoral Board (NEBE) has officially declared Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s ruling Prosperity Party the winner of the country’s 7th general election, securing 438 of 547 parliamentary seats, roughly 90 […]
Ethiopian Crisis: Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate Kassa Calls on International Community to Act Against Atrocities in Amhara Region
Source: Speech delivered by Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate Kassa at the European Parliament, June 2026 Ethiopian scholar, author, and royal descendant Prince Asfa-Wossen Asserate Kassa delivered a powerful address before the European Parliament, urging international institutions to break their silence over what he described as a deepening and largely unreported catastrophe […]
Ethiopia Faces Its Most Dangerous Chapter Yet as Multi-Front Conflict Deepens
Source: Africa Report / Justice Info, Original reporting by crisis analysts covering the Horn of Africa Ethiopia, the second most populous nation on the African continent and long regarded as a pillar of stability in the Horn of Africa, is entering a dangerously uncertain new phase in its ongoing conflict. […]
Ethiopia’s Election: A Foregone Conclusion or a Nation’s Endorsement?
As vote counts trickle in from Ethiopia’s latest national election, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is widely anticipated to secure a commanding share of the national vote, with projections pointing to roughly 90 percent. But analysts, opposition figures, and international observers are asking a harder question: does an overwhelming majority signal […]
Orthodox Christians Continue to Be Targeted in Arsi, Oromia — At Least 37 Killed
Armed attackers have killed dozens of Orthodox Christian civilians in East Arsi Zone of Ethiopia’s Oromia region, burning churches, destroying hundreds of homes, and forcing hundreds of survivors to flee into surrounding forests, with violence that began days before the national election and continued through polling day on June 1. […]
From Nobel Peace Prize to Civil War: The Rise and Fall of Abiy Ahmed’s Promise
When Abiy Ahmed took office as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he arrived as a breath of fresh air for a nation long burdened by authoritarian rule. Within just three months, he had brokered a peace deal ending a two-decade standoff with neighboring Eritrea, a feat that astonished the world […]
How International Media Is Getting Ethiopia’s Conflicts Wrong
A new five-year study reveals that global news outlets have narrowed their lens on a much broader crisis. When violence erupts in a country, billions of people turn to international broadcasters and outlets to make sense of what is happening. Yet a major new study suggests that the picture being […]
Genocide Alert Renewed Over Ongoing Atrocities Against Ethiopia’s Amhara People
An international genocide prevention organization has renewed its urgent warning over what it describes as a systematic and ongoing genocide targeting the Amhara ethnic group in Ethiopia, a crisis that has claimed tens of thousands of civilian lives over nearly a decade. Background The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention, a […]