Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s Girma sets indoor world record in 3,000m

Feb. 15, 2023 06:56 PM EST
LIEVIN, France (AP) — Ethiopia’s Lamecha Girma broke a 25-year-old indoor world record in the 3,000 meters on Wednesday at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais....

Kenya's Eliud Kipchoge crosses the line to win the Berlin Marathon in Berlin, Germany, Sunday, Sept. 25, 2022. Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge has bettered his own world record in the Berlin Marathon. Kipchoge clocked 2:01:09 on Sunday to shave 30 seconds off his previous best-mark of 2:01:39 from the same course in 2018. (AP Photo/Christoph Soeder)
Kipchoge clocks 2:01:09 for world record in Berlin Marathon

By Ciarán Fahey Sep. 25, 2022 05:33 AM EDT

Korir joins Jepchirchir in defending NYC Marathon title

Aug. 10, 2022 11:19 AM EDT
NEW YORK (AP) — Albert Korir is joining fellow Kenyan runner Peres Jepchirchir in attempting to defend his title at the New York City Marathon. Korir...

Jasmine Camacho-Quinn, of Puerto Rico celebrates after winning the gold in the women's 100-meters hurdles final at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Tokyo, Japan. (Kai Pfaffenbach/Pool Photo via AP)
No keeping her down: After a fall, busy Hassan gets a gold

By Eddie Pells Aug. 01, 2021 11:50 PM EDT

Germany's Aline Rotter Focken celebrates defeating United States Adeline Maria Gray during the women's 76kg freestyle wrestling final match at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Monday, Aug. 2, 2021, in Chiba, Japan. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)
Olympics Latest: Krajewski wins individual eventing gold

Aug. 01, 2021 08:49 PM EDT

Selemon Barega, of Ethiopia, celebrates after winning the men's 10,000-meter run at the 2020 Summer Olympics, Friday, July 30, 2021, in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Ethiopia's Barega wins 1st track gold of Tokyo Olympics

By Gerald Imray Jul. 30, 2021 08:56 AM EDT

FILE - In this Sept. 8, 2020, file photo, Sifan Hassan, of the Netherlands, reacts after winning the women's 5,000-meters race at the Golden Spike athletic meeting in Ostrava, Czech Republic. Double world champion Hassan is considering doing a crazy distance-running triple at the Olympics. Hassan says she's possibly going to add the 1,500 meters to her Tokyo schedule having already decided on pursuing a 5,000-10,000 double at Olympic Stadium. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek, File)
Craziness: Hassan considers running triple at Olympics

By Gerald Imray Jul. 29, 2021 03:20 AM EDT

South Africa's Olympic soccer team members, wearing face masks, leave the training venue in Chiba, east of Tokyo, Monday, July 19, 2021. Two South African soccer players have become the first athletes inside the Olympic Village to test positive for COVID-19. The Tokyo Games open on Friday. (Kyodo News via AP)
Medal predictions for events at the Tokyo Olympics

Jul. 19, 2021 05:57 AM EDT

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 Friday, March 22, 2019 file photo, children scrape through for remaining rice inside a pot at a center for those displaced after Cyclone Idai hit coastal Mozambique, in Beira, Mozambique. The U.N. high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi said Friday June 17, 2021, that conflicts and the impact of climate change in places like Mozambique were among the leading sources of new flows of refugees and internally displaced people in 2020.(AP Photo/Themba Hadebe, File)
UN: Millions driven from homes in 2020 despite COVID crisis

By Jamey Keaten And Edith M. Lederer Jun. 18, 2021 07:19 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...

UN official: Conflicts make controlling COVID more difficult

By Edith M. Lederer May. 25, 2021 09:02 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Despite last year’s U.N. call for global cease-fires to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic, many conflicts never stopped including in Syria,...

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

Japan's Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, left, poses with Britain's Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab at the start of the G7 foreign ministers meeting in London Tuesday May 4, 2021. G7 foreign ministers meet in London Tuesday for their first face-to-face talks in more than two years. (Steve Reigate / Pool via AP)
G7 foreign ministers meet face-to-face after pandemic pause

By Jill Lawless May. 04, 2021 04:29 AM EDT