The Latest Breaking News from Ethiopia

Poor countries get 1% of global supply … to treat half the world’s people. In Ethiopia, a new initiative has begun, but too late for those suffering without oral morphine

The week of July 23, 2023, thousands of Rastafarians, known for their dreadlocks and for treating cannabis as a sacrament, will gather in Jamaica to celebrate the birth of Haile Selassie I, emperor of Ethiopia.

Egypt is keen to protect itself as Sudan’s military strongmen wage war.

A few years ago, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – had lost salience because three of its members were in severe economic difficulty. Brazil, Russia and South Africa are primarily natural resource exporters and were badly affected by the global commodity price bust of…

The Scottish Catholic International Aid Fund is taking action as many millions of people in the East African country are on the brink of starvation and 90 per cent of the cattle are dead.

The east African regional bloc IGAD has mooted the creation of a regional peace force for Sudan at a summit on Sudan on Monday in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa .

In tonight's edition: Sudan stays away from regional peace talks in Ethiopia about its three-month war. Sudan's foreign minister accuses Kenya of alleged bias. Also, rumours that one of Senegal's biggest cities may twin with a city in Russian-occupied Crimea have stirred up a diplomatic row with Ukraine. Finally, we…

Some 157 passengers and crew died when the aircraft – en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi – crashed in March 2019.

In this edition: Niger's private sector has stepped up to fertilise failing plans for Africa's Great Green Wall. Also, people from Ethiopia's town of Lalibela help restore some of the iconic rock-hewn churches unique to their community. Plus, Malian children from riverside communities take to the waters to head out…