Sources: News 24
The Somalian government and the African Union finalize the troop distribution for the new peacekeeping mission AUSSOM, resolving prior disputes with Ethiopia and later Burundi. The mission will deploy 11,900 personnel, including soldiers, police, and civilian staff. Under the agreement, Uganda will contribute 4,500 troops, followed by Ethiopia with 2,500, Djibouti with 1,520, Kenya with 1,410, and Egypt with 1,091. 2025-02-26
Intense fighting between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government breaks out in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara Region. 2024-03-1
Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use 20 km of coastline, including the port of Berbera, in exchange for eventual recognition of the Somaliland Declaration of Independence, which would make it the first country to do so. 2024-01-1
The head of the Prosperity Party in Haruka Woreda, in Ethiopia's Afar Region, is shot and killed alongside his brother by unknown gunmen while returning from the city of Adama, Oromia. It is the third assassination targeting the party's members in the past month. 2023-05-8
The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry rejects an Arab League resolution calling for the UN Security Council to intervene in the dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on behalf of Egypt and Sudan. 2021-06-16
A Sudanese Air Force helicopter crashes shortly after taking off in Sudan's Al Qadarif state, near the border with Ethiopia, with the three-person crew surviving the crash, according to officials. 2021-01-13
At least 50 are killed in flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rains in Ethiopia. 2016-05-10
Sudan puts a married Ethiopian woman on trial after being gang-raped because she waited before she reported it. She faces the death penalty for adultery. 2014-02-21
Unknown assailants kill 2 Hungarians, 2 Germans and an Austrian in northeastern Ethiopia. 2012-01-17
Rebels in the ethnically Somali Ogaden region of Ethiopia say they have seized a town from government troops and freed two United Nations workers. 2011-05-26