ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian rebel group recently welcomed back to the country accuses the reformist government of targeting it with airstrikes. The government denies it.

Tensions are growing with the Oromo Liberation Front, which a year ago was in exile and listed as a terror ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Local media in Ethiopia say a court has sentenced 66 soldiers to prison after they marched on the prime minister’s office earlier this year in what he later described as an attempt to derail dramatic reforms.

The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An opposition figure who recently returned from exile was named Ethiopia’s election chief on Thursday as the country prepares for what the reformist prime minister vows will be “free and fair” elections in 2020.

Birtukan Mideksa, a former judge, is the most ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Africa’s leaders applauded Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for making substantial reforms in his country as they met to consider improvements to the continent-wide body at a summit that started Saturday.

“Ethiopia is undergoing a profound renewal. In the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to lift sanctions against Eritrea following its thaw in relations with Ethiopia and other neighboring countries — but it kept an arms embargo on Somalia and a ban on trade in charcoal, a key source of funds for al-Shabab ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has detained the former head of a large military-run industrial conglomerate, a day after the country’s attorney general disclosed that several hundred million dollars was embezzled from the firm.

The state broadcaster ETV reported that Maj. Gen. Kinfe ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia has arrested 63 intelligence officials, military personnel and businesspeople on allegations of rights violations and corruption, the country’s attorney general announced Monday.

The sweeping high-profile arrests carried out in recent days are a result ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian lawmakers have approved the country’s first female Supreme Court president.

The move Thursday came just a week after lawmakers elected Ethiopia’s first female president.

Meaza Ashenafi, a prominent law practitioner in Ethiopia, assumed the top ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Rights groups are calling on Ethiopia’s reformist new leader to stop using repressive tactics once favored by the previous leadership, in their most outspoken criticism since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in April.

Human Rights Watch on Saturday ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Two days after Ethiopia announced one of the world’s few “gender-balanced” Cabinets with 50 percent women, Rwanda has done the same.

The East African nation late Thursday announced that women now make up half of the slimmed-down, 26-seat Cabinet.

Rwanda joins a ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s reformist prime minister says a meeting with disgruntled soldiers last week was an attempt to derail dramatic reforms and “there were some sides who regretted I was not killed.”

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s comments to lawmakers on Thursday indicated ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s new Cabinet is now a record 50 percent female, including the country’s first woman defense minister, after lawmakers on Tuesday unanimously approved the nominations put forward by reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.

“Our women ministers will ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian soldiers protesting over pay met with the prime minister on Wednesday after their appearance in the capital caused security concerns, with internet services cut off for hours.

“They raised issues related to their living conditions, low pay and a ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ethiopia’s ruling coalition has chosen the country’s prime minister to lead the party until its next congress, a vote of confidence in the new leader’s sweeping political and economic reforms.

The results of the secret ballot for chairman were announced Friday by Prime ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Government officials and residents said overnight ethnic-based attacks in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, have killed several people and caused hundreds to flee their homes.

“Several lives were lost and properties damaged due to this attack,” ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. says Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will witness the signing of a peace agreement between the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea in Saudi Arabia’s western city of Jeddah.

U.N. deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said Friday the U.N. chief will travel to Jeddah on ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The Latest on Ethiopia and Eritrea’s diplomatic thaw (all times local):

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Ethiopia’s leader says troops on both sides will withdraw from the border with Eritrea, shortly after the countries officially opened the border following two decades of ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ethiopian, Eritrean and Somalia leaders are set to meet in Eritrea’s capital Asmara, furthering the diplomatic thaw in the strategic Horn of Africa region.

By bringing together the leaders of former arch-foes in a summit Wednesday, Eritrea is building newly friendly ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — The former president of Ethiopia’s Somali region was arrested Monday, the state broadcaster ETV reported.

The dismissal and arrest of Abdi Mohammed Omar, a well-known politician from the country’s eastern area, came after unrest in the Somali region’s capital, ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian marathon runner who went into exile after protesting against oppression in his country while winning a silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics has been asked to return home.

Feyisa Lilesa captured international attention when he raised his ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian official says a notorious special police force in the country’s Somali region killed 41 people and wounded 20 others as ethnic violence poses a challenge to the reformist new prime minister.

Local spokesman Miski Mohammed says the Liyu Police ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian troops have clashed with a local police force in the restive Somali region, with the defense ministry saying it will “take the necessary measures” to restore order.

Witnesses say the fighting on Saturday in the regional capital of Jigjiga led to the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s fast-moving new prime minister has met at the White House with U.S. Vice President Mike Pence, who congratulated him on “historic reform efforts” that include making peace with longtime rival Eritrea.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed also met with the ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council says the peace declaration signed by Ethiopia and Eritrea after 20 years as enemies “represents a historic and significant development with far-reaching positive consequences for the Horn of Africa and beyond.”

The council on Tuesday ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has fired five prison officials as it confronts allegations of torture and other abuses of inmates as part of a wave of reforms. Among those fired is the federal prison chief who until recently defended the treatment of inmates as ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s cabinet has passed a resolution to remove three armed groups from a terror list as part of sweeping reforms under a new prime minister. The groups, operating mainly from neighboring Eritrea, had opposed the government that ruled Ethiopia for close to three ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia says the United States will send FBI investigators to look into Saturday’s deadly attack on a massive rally for the new prime minister.

The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports that Under Secretary of Commerce Gilbert Kaplan made the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia says it has unblocked 246 websites and TV channels in the latest reform under its new prime minster, whose chief of staff says “freedom of expression is a foundational right.”

Chief of staff Fitsum Arega announced the news on Twitter as Prime Minister ...