Both sides stand to gain from peace, but translating words into reality will be difficult

Only a global victory can end this pandemic, not a temporary rich countries’ win 

Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says the county’s factions can find peace, political Islam need not be violent and democracy can grow. Here’s his exclusive interview with the Observer

Outsiders bear much of the blame

The long read: When Abiy Ahmed took power in Ethiopia, he was feted at home and abroad as a great unifier and reformer. Two years later, terrible violence was raging. How did people get him so wrong?

The civil war’s outcome may be affected by it

The 6 million people who suffered war crimes will see no accountability while the EU and US restore relations with a government that fosters impunity

A country of 120m people is fraying

Ethiopia’s proposed national transitional justice mechanism cannot succeed in bringing about justice to victims, but any international process faces massive barriers.

Living in UN camps in a rapidly collapsing Sudan, refugees from Ethiopia are being kidnapped, taken across the Sahara, and tortured for ransom – in a brutal, multimillion-dollar industry

Prime Minister Abiy's plan for a government complex overlooking Addis Ababa could cost over $10 billion even as the economy limps along

Abiy Ahmed’s push for access to the sea has rattled his neighbours

Local officials and researchers say hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and United Nations suspended food aid.

Ethiopia’s push to attract tourism and investment has seen the demolition of a historic district in the capital, with people’s homes and livelihoods destroyed

Regional rivalries are behind a strengthening of both political and economic ties

A region ravaged by war is now hit by drought

Gains against al-Shabab are a boost for Somalia’s new government

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U.S. officials say this may be the biggest theft of food aid on record anywhere in the world.

Peace may lead to reform in a country that enslaves its young

The Garima Gospels exemplify a wider conflict over heritage and conservation

Having fled violence, a million Ethiopians now face hunger and disease. Yet Abiy Ahmed seems intent only on their return

Abiy Ahmed’s crackdown in Oromia is bloody and lawless

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150,000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence

The prime minister and many of his closest allies follow a fast-growing strain of Christianity

Protests that started as bread riots now threaten the president

In the rarely visited town of Gedeb, fears are rife over state plans to return 150,000 people to areas they fled because of ethnic violence

Half a million may starve without urgent help

Join Tom Gardner at the Frontline Club for a panel discussion about his new book, 'The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia'.

The record of Ethiopia’s prime minister remains incomplete, at home and abroad

Issaias Afwerki made peace a year ago. His people want the dividend

The count is always contentious because it confers money and power

Darfur follow ups : report The Sudan office of the Center for International Private Projects have revealed the corruption networks that support the war economy in Sudan. The director of the center,...