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The US says it will not support that the two permanent African seats be granted veto powers like the five original permanent members namely the US, China, France, Britain, and Russia, because the veto has rendered the Security Council dysfunctional as any permanent member can block Council resolutions they do not agree with.
The All Amhara Association in South Africa said they are tired of the atrocities in the region.
Abrham Mearag is suing Meta over his father’s death in Ethiopia amid the conflict, saying their algorithm contributed to the spread of internet hate and violence.
Former Malawian president, Dr Joyce Banda, was a panellist in a discussion titled ‘The nexus between governance, peace and security in Africa’.
The restoration of desperately needed humanitarian assistance to the region is one of the key planks of a peace deal between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front to end two years of brutal war in northern Ethiopia.
The implementation of the recent Ethiopia ceasefire agreement is critical to it’s success, says Ambassador Welile Nhlapo, South Africa’s former ambassador to Ethiopia and permanent representative to the Organisation of African Unity and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa.
World leaders have hailed the peace agreement by the Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray, with many calling it a water-shed moment for conflict resolution on the continent.
The United Nations welcomes the recently signed agreement by the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia to permanently cease hostilities, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said on Wednesday.
AU-led mediators have hailed the process as an African solution to an African problem.
High Representative of the chairperson of the African Union Commission, who also heads the AU Mediation team, Olusegun Obasanjo, will brief the media on Wednesday in Pretoria regarding the African Union-led negotiations to resolve the conflict in Ethiopia.
It has been almost two years since hostilities commenced between the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan nationalists. The development are a cruel irony to the backdrop of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his and Eritrean President Isias Afwerki’s breakthrough to end the conflict between their respective countries.
The South Africa-hosted talks are the first formal peace talks aimed at ending two years of war between the Ethiopian army and forces from the country’s northern region of Tigray.
The African Union (AU) has facilitated the direct peace talks between the Ethiopian federal government and the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which are to be in South Africa.
The first formal peace talks aimed at ending two year war between the Ethiopian army and forces from the country's northern region of Tigray started in South Africa on Tuesday and will end on Sunday, the South African government said.
Addis Ababa The planned peace talks between the Ethiopian government and rebel groups in the Tigray region of Ethiopia have been postponed indefinitely.
Debris from a drone strike in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region hit a World Food Programme truck carrying humanitarian aid and injured the driver, a WFP spokesperson said on Monday.
The threat of insurgencies is transnational in nature, and addressing existing issues is not enough to curb the transnational element of insurgents, Abdisaid Muse Ali, the former minister of foreign affairs and international co-operation of Somalia, suggested at a hybrid lecture on strategies to address increasing security challenges in Africa.
Five bodies were taken to Mekelle hospital, while another was taken to Ayder hospital along with 10 wounded people, said Fasika Amdeslasie, a surgeon at Ayder, after what he described as a drone strike.
The Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has underscored this positive development as a unique opportunity toward the restoration of peace in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia’s government has described as “unethical” the statement by the World Health Organization’s director-general that the crisis in the country’s Tigray region is “the worst disaster on Earth”.
Millions of people around the country need urgent food aid, but fuel shortages have forced support organisations to reduce or suspend deliveries.
The death toll from the Wollega massacre in western Ethiopia has surpassed 1 500 with as many as 12 members of the same family wiped out by militants of the Oromo Liberation Front, according to eyewitnesses.
Ethiopia’s ancient civilisations are believed to date back more than 3,000 years.
Medics said a protester was killed in Khartoum on Thursday as demonstrations against a military coup entered their sixth month across the country.
A United Nations General Assembly budget committee is due to vote Thursday on an Ethiopian push to block funding for an independent investigation into abuses in the country's conflict, diplomats said.