Ethiopia

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad at Al-Yamamah Palace in Riyadh on Friday. During the meeting, “they reviewed the strong fraternal relations between the two countries and ways…
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Ethiopia said Saturday it had begun a second round of talks with Egypt and Sudan over a controversial mega-dam built by Addis Ababa on the Nile, long a source of tensions among the three nations. Ethiopia this month announced the…
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Secretary-General of the Muslim World League and Chairman of the Association of Muslim Scholars Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa met with Sheikh Haji Ibrahim, president of the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, along with the…
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Eritrean troops allied with Ethiopia’s government “committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Tigray, raping, enslaving and executing civilians for months after the signing of a peace agreement, Amnesty International said…
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman sent on Wednesday a verbal message to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali concerning bilateral relations and ways to boost joint cooperation. The message was conveyed by Ahmed bin Abdulaziz Kattan, adviser…
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Sudan’s government refused Monday to join a regional meeting aimed at ending nearly three months of brutal fighting, accusing Kenya, which chaired the talks, of favoring the rival paramilitaries. A power struggle between Sudanese army…
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Egypt has denounced Ethiopia over the latter’s accusation that Cairo is politicizing the row over Nile waters, saying that the accusation is an attempt to evade legal responsibility for the effects of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.…
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met Ethiopia’s foreign minister in Addis Ababa on Wednesday, as their two governments look to repair relations following friction over the two-year civil war in the Tigray region. Blinken, who began…
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Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria and Patriarch of the See of St. Mark, has announced that the crisis in the Ethiopian Church has likely been resolved, with the return to the fold of several members who had tried to secede over alleged…
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Egypt said it had protested to the UN Security Council on Friday against Ethiopian plans to fill the reservoir of a controversial Nile dam for a third year without agreement from downstream countries. The multibillion-dollar Grand…
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