https://sagire.online/topic/ethiopia/ Ethiopia: articles and notes where the country is a central actor. en Thu, 05 Nov 2026 03:40:00 -0300 https://sagire.online/wire/3859957d/https://sagire.online/wire/3859957d/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:23:00 -0300Ethiopia expelled six staff members of Sudan's consulate in Assosa, a western city near the Sudanese border, and ordered the mission closed, according to officials from both countries. Sudan's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that drones used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) against the country's electricity infrastructure were supplied by the United Arab Emirates and launched from Ethiopia, and that it had filed formal complaints against Addis Ababa at the UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council. Sudan accuses Ethiopia of backing the RSF, while Addis Ababa accuses Khartoum of supporting rebels in Tigray; Ethiopia denies backing the RSF and Sudan denies backing the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). Amjad Farid, political and foreign affairs adviser to Sudan's Transitional Sovereign Council, said the government remains committed to its right to defend its territory but is making every possible effort to avoid an open war with Ethiopia. Ethiopia withdrew three diplomats from its consulate in the eastern Sudanese city of El Gedaref, and reports suggested Sudanese authorities ordered the Ethiopian diplomats there to leave in retaliation; neither foreign ministry issued an official statement on the mutual expulsions, according to the Sudan Tribune. Sudan's civil war, which began in April 2023, has displaced more than 14 million people, according to UN figures, in a Reuters text republished by the Straits Times.EthiopiaSudanHorn of AfricaDiplomacy https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/https://sagire.online/wire/510e3fc8/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:21:00 -0300According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), thousands of people are displaced in the city of Debre Berhan, in the Amhara region, and in Shire, in northwestern Tigray. UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric said families who had recently returned to the district of Diabo, in northwestern Tigray, were forced to flee again because of renewed military activities. OCHA and humanitarian partners are preparing to scale up assistance, but insecurity is restricting movement along the roads connecting Gonder with Debark and Metema, in Amhara. Fighting in the country's north, in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, resumed in late September, nearly four years after the November 2022 Pretoria Agreement ended the two-year war between federal forces and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reported civilian deaths, including children and a newborn, in attacks in northern Ethiopia and said the region's health system is approaching collapse.EthiopiaConflictAfricaGlobal health https://sagire.online/wire/9cc879cf/https://sagire.online/wire/9cc879cf/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Ethiopia has ordered six Sudanese diplomatic staff members to leave the country within 48 hours, according to a senior Ethiopian official cited by Reuters, in a text republished by Addis Standard. The six were ordered to leave Sudan’s consulate in Assosa, the administrative center of the Benishangul-Gumuz region. The decision comes days after Sudan’s army-aligned government lodged complaints against Ethiopia with the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union Peace and Security Council, accusing Addis Ababa of allowing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) to use Ethiopian territory to launch drone attacks. Addis Ababa accuses Khartoum of backing Tigrayan rebels, and both sides deny the allegations against them. On October 1, Ethiopia had already closed its embassy in Asmara and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata, ordering them to leave within 48 hours.EthiopiaSudanDiplomacyHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/820aebe0/https://sagire.online/wire/820aebe0/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 05:23:00 -0300Former US contractor Abraham Teklu Lemma admitted sharing dozens of classified documents and photographs with Ethiopian officials over more than two years, according to the US Department of Justice. He worked as a contractor at the State Department, the Justice Department and the National Reconnaissance Office, the agency responsible for US intelligence satellites. The material included satellite imagery and details of military activities, passed on through encrypted messages, and the FBI said Ethiopian officials used the intelligence in military operations. In one message to an Ethiopian official in December 2021, Lemma wrote that “we have to finish these people once and for all,” because otherwise there would never be peace in Ethiopia, and later that day he urged the official to send drones. He pleaded guilty to conspiring to transmit national defense information to a foreign government, faces sentencing on April 14, 2027, and could get up to 22 years in prison.EthiopiaUnited StatesJusticeHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/ccaaad13/https://sagire.online/wire/ccaaad13/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:23:00 -0300Ethiopia’s Media Authority announced on November 2 the indefinite suspension of the print and online licenses of the Reporter, the country’s last privately owned Amharic newspaper, accusing it of violating media laws and ethics and publishing content against the national interest; in October, undercover police detained journalists Samuel Getachew and Amanuel Gebremedhin, jailed for eight days, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW), in a text republished by AllAfrica.EthiopiaPress freedomAfrica https://sagire.online/wire/af328c5b/https://sagire.online/wire/af328c5b/Wed, 04 Nov 2026 01:23:00 -0300Kenyan authorities, together with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Kenyan Red Cross, began around October 31 registering at the Harhosa and OMC shelters in Marsabit County the Ethiopians fleeing the clashes in Moyale, a border town jointly administered by the Oromia and Somali regions, with more than 50,000 crossings since late October, according to Kenyan media, and agencies appealed for about $8.9 million for three months of response, in an Addis Standard text republished by AllAfrica.KenyaEthiopiaHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/6f5aaa0f/https://sagire.online/wire/6f5aaa0f/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 12:23:00 -0300Egypt and Sudan reaffirmed in a joint statement on November 2, after the third round of their “2+2” consultation mechanism bringing foreign and irrigation ministers together in Cairo, that Ethiopia’s operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) without a binding agreement threatens downstream water security, according to Egyptian local media. The 1959 agreement invoked by the two countries allocated 55.5 billion cubic meters a year to Egypt and 18.5 billion to Sudan, while making no provision for Ethiopia, which was not a party to the treaty. The dam, built through domestic financing, has an installed generation capacity of approximately 5,150 megawatts and a reservoir capacity of about 74 billion cubic meters, making it Africa’s largest hydroelectric project.EgyptSudanEthiopiaAfricaEnergy https://sagire.online/wire/a6a81cb0/https://sagire.online/wire/a6a81cb0/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 04:23:00 -0300Sudan’s army said on Tuesday that its air defenses shot down a “hostile” drone that crossed the border from Ethiopia and was intercepted over Blue Nile State, without identifying the operator, the origin, the target or the circumstances of the interception, amid border tensions, with the army repeatedly accusing external actors of backing the Rapid Support Forces (RSF).SudanEthiopiaDronesConflict https://sagire.online/wire/3a87bd4e/https://sagire.online/wire/3a87bd4e/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 07:21:00 -0300The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) says that 500 soldiers were killed and 800 wounded in clashes with the Ethiopian federal government's army and allied forces in the country's northern Tigray region. The figures were reported by the TPLF-affiliated Dimtsi Weyane television station, could not be independently verified, and the Ethiopian government has not commented on the claims.EthiopiaConflictHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/fc3895ad/https://sagire.online/wire/fc3895ad/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 06:22:00 -0300Sudan has lodged a complaint against Ethiopia with the United Nations (UN) Security Council and the African Union’s Peace and Security Council after a series of deadly drone attacks this year, according to Al Jazeera.SudanEthiopiaDronesUnited NationsHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/jari-2-quatro-ataques-sem-voz-oficial/https://sagire.online/jari-2-quatro-ataques-sem-voz-oficial/Sun, 01 Nov 2026 17:29:00 -0300Four drone strikes hit a camp of 1,700 displaced people in South Wollo as students walked home, and the counts run from 14 to 18 dead. The next day a drone hit people collecting sorghum from a truck already bombed in Tigray. The federal government has said nothing, and the only official voice is a local official treating the wounded.EthiopiaDronesHuman rightsConflict https://sagire.online/wire/dd8a07ad/https://sagire.online/wire/dd8a07ad/Sat, 31 Oct 2026 11:22:00 -0300Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed put cabinet ministers and other senior government officials through military training at the Hurso center, saying armed forces discipline can help build stronger leaders, the BBC reported. Those taking part include the speaker of the House of Federation, Muferiat Kamil, the finance minister, Fitsum Assefa, and the health minister, Mekdes Daba. The training comes as Ethiopia faces multiple security challenges, including continued fighting in parts of the northern Tigray region, conflict in Amhara and insecurity in Oromia.EthiopiaHorn of AfricaAfricaDefense https://sagire.online/wire/06556967/https://sagire.online/wire/06556967/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 07:22:00 -0300At least 14 people, including children, were killed in several drone strikes on Thursday (October 29) on a camp for displaced people in Ethiopia's Amhara region, three witnesses told AFP in a report published by The Hindu. Local media and conflict monitors reported at least 16 civilians killed and 22 injured in Thursday's strike on a camp for people displaced by conflict in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region. The camp houses more than 1,800 internally displaced people, many of whom fled violence in the Oromia region, including the Wollega area, according to Anadolu.EthiopiaHorn of AfricaConflictDronesHuman rights https://sagire.online/wire/2adc4a72/https://sagire.online/wire/2adc4a72/Fri, 30 Oct 2026 04:22:00 -0300Up to an estimated 50,000 people crossed into Kenya, according to local authorities cited by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), following clashes between the armies of southern Ethiopia’s Somali and Oromia regions; UNHCR deployed an emergency team to Moyale.EthiopiaKenyaMigrationHorn of Africa https://sagire.online/wire/89f4ce65/https://sagire.online/wire/89f4ce65/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 07:23:00 -0300Sudan accused Ethiopia of providing platforms on its territory for launching drones that recently targeted the country on Wednesday and warned of risks to regional security and stability, according to the Chinese agency Xinhua. Sudanese Foreign Minister Khalid said Sudan reserved the right to defend its security by all legitimate means. Over the past three days, drones the agency links to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have targeted electricity stations in multiple Sudanese states.SudanEthiopiaDronesConflictHorn of Africa