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The death toll from the floods in Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia, increases to 130 people. The Somali town of Beledweyne has been completely submerged after the Shebelle River burst its banks, forcing 90% of the population out of their homes, while 30,000 people are displaced in Kenya as hundreds of homes have been destroyed.
2023-11-19

Four people are killed and twenty are injured in a grenade attack by a former TPLF combatant in Mekelle, Tigray, Ethiopia.
2023-08-26

The United States cuts off Ethiopia, Guinea and Mali from the African Growth and Opportunity Act trade preference program citing their human rights abuses and anti-democratic actions.
2022-01-2

Ethiopian voters head to the polls to elect a new session to the House of Peoples' Representatives after months of delays. The election occurs in the midst of multiple problems affecting the country, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, deteriorating conditions in the Tigray Region brought on by the Tigray War, and the jailing of multiple oppositional figures.
2021-06-21

Fifteen people are arrested in Ethiopia over a plot to attack the United Arab Emirates' embassy in the capital Addis Ababa. Several other suspects, who were planning attacks against the UAE's diplomatic mission in Sudan, are also arrested.
2021-02-3

Sudan summons its Ethiopian ambassador regarding an attack at the border between the two countries that killed military personnel and civilians, including children. A Sudanese military spokesman blamed militias "supported by Ethiopia", while there was no response from the Ethiopian government.
2020-05-30

A military helicopter crashes in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, killing 18 people.
2018-08-30

Leaders from Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their countries' 20-year border conflict.
2018-07-9

Meles Zenawi, the long-term Prime Minister of Ethiopia, dies of a mystery illness after not having been seen in public for weeks.
2012-08-20

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says radio station the Voice of America (VOA) is promoting "destabilising propaganda" that is inciting genocide in his country.
2010-03-19