Abiy Ahmed

Health workers in Ethiopia's Tigray region say an airstrike has hit a busy village market.

'Like a hell': Ethiopia airstrike survivors recall massacre

Jun. 27, 2021 02:16 AM EDT

In this image made from video, an injured victim of an alleged airstrike on a village arrives in an ambulance at the Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, Wednesday, June 23, 2021. An airstrike hit a busy market in Ethiopia's northern Tigray village of Togoga on Tuesday and killed at least 51 people, according to health workers who said soldiers blocked medical teams from traveling to the scene. (AP Photo)

Witnesses: Airstrike in Ethiopia's Tigray kills more than 50

Jun. 23, 2021 06:29 AM EDT

Ethiopians queue on chairs in the street as they wait to cast their votes in the general election at a polling center in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday, June 21, 2021. Ethiopia was voting Monday in the greatest electoral test yet for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as insecurity and logistical issues meant ballots wouldn't be cast in more than 100 constituencies of the 547 across the country. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopia votes in test for PM Abiy amid reports of abuses

Jun. 21, 2021 07:26 AM EDT

FILE - In this Saturday, May 22, 2021 file photo, Berhanu Nega, leader of the Ethiopian Citizens for Social Justice (EZEMA) opposition party, attends an election rally at Agena town in the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region of Ethiopia. The country is due to vote in a general election on Monday, June, 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopia finally set to vote as PM vows 1st fair election

Jun. 18, 2021 02:37 AM EDT

A young boy looks up as displaced Tigrayans line up to receive food donated by local residents at a reception center for the internally displaced in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on Sunday, May 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Report on Tigray: 350,000 face famine, 2 million a step away

By Edith M. Lederer Jun. 10, 2021 05:41 PM EDT

Editorial Roundup: U.S.

By The Associated Press Jun. 02, 2021 01:03 PM EDT
Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: May 31 The Wall Street Journal on ‘melodrama’ in Texas...

UN warns Tigray faces famine risk if aid isn't scaled up

By Edith M. Lederer May. 26, 2021 07:30 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief warned the Security Council that the humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region is worsening...

Ethiopia sets June 21 as new date for its delayed elections

By Andrew Meldrum May. 20, 2021 12:36 PM EDT
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Ethiopia will hold its delayed parliamentary elections on June 21, the country’s national electoral board announced Thursday, a vote that...

FILE - In this Monday, Nov. 30, 2020 file photo, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed responds to questions from members of parliament at the prime minister's office in the capital Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia has again delayed its national election after the head of the national elections board, Birtukan Mideksa, in a meeting with political parties' representatives on Saturday, May 15, 2021 said the June 5 vote in Africa's second most populous country would be postponed until a yet-unknown date. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene, File)

Ethiopia again delays national election amid deadly tensions

May. 15, 2021 10:32 AM EDT

Amhara militia member Nega Wagaw poses for a photograph on a street in Gondar, in the Amhara region of Ethiopia Sunday, May 2, 2021. Ethiopia faces a growing crisis of ethnic nationalism that some fear could tear Africa's second most populous country apart, six months after the government launched a military operation in the Tigray region to capture its fugitive leaders. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ethiopia 'at a crossroads' amid spiraling ethnic conflict

By Rodney Muhumuza May. 04, 2021 04:04 AM EDT

Theologian Lisanewerk Desta poses for a portrait at his house in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on Monday, April 26, 2021. Dozens of Tigrayan priests and deacons were detained in the capital, most for a month, according to Lisanewerk, who leads the library and museum department of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. He also said he has spoken with a detainee at a center near Harar who estimated that more than 2,000 people were held there. “I don’t have words. How to explain this kind of hatred?” he asked. (AP Photo/Mulugeta Ayene)

'Clean out our insides': Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

By Cara Anna Apr. 29, 2021 02:14 AM EDT

A Tigrayan employee of the state-owned Ethiopian Airlines, who said he fled the country after being released on bail, poses for a portrait at an undisclosed location in April 2021. “We need you very badly today,” he recalled federal police saying as they took him from his home without explanation. He said he saw almost 100 high-ranking military officials during his two months in detention ending in January 2021. (AP Photo)

'Clean out our insides': Ethiopia detains Tigrayans amid war

By Cara Anna Apr. 29, 2021 02:12 AM EDT

Tigrayan refugees wait in line to revive food from Muslim Aid at Hamdeyat Transition Center near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Sudan, Wednesday, March 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Ethiopia says Eritrean troops are pulling out of Tigray

By Rodney Muhumuza Apr. 03, 2021 04:21 PM EDT

UN warns of `alarming' crisis in Ethiopia's Tigray region

By Edith M. Lederer Mar. 25, 2021 04:28 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. humanitarian official warned Thursday of an ongoing crisis in Ethiopia’s conflict-torn Tigray region, pointing to targeted...