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Months of discreet American diplomacy have failed to stop the fighting in northern Ethiopia. Now, the civil war is plunging into its most alarming phase yet.

Hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans have been silently displaced, abused and subjected to atrocious actions by the Amhara region. Children, women and men

Clashes on the border of the Tigray region raised concern about another wave of violence in a ruinous civil war and fueled fears about the fate of millions already on the verge of famine.

I dubbed the Wednesday of my Edinburgh run, ‘Super Wednesday’, as it involved hosting three shows...

Millions of head of cattle and crops lost due to climate change, with Ukraine war and Covid-19 worsening crisis

Twenty-two media employees have been arrested across Ethiopia this year alone.

National Statement by Ambassador Byrne Nason at the Arria-formula Meeting of the Security Council on Protection of Journalists, called by Ireland.

The Ethiopian Media Authority has revoked the accreditation of "The Economist" reporter Tom Gardner, for allegedly failing "to live standards of conduct for journalists."

Than hed bargained for. what followed involved a police diving team, some archaeologists, and a day off school, as simon marks explains. 15—year—old tom has a keen eye for history. one day, while tom was wading in the river stour, he spotted something extraordinary. i found what looked like the edge of an old leather boot and that is what i thought it was going to be, and i pulled it out and saw the tops of two eye sockets. and then i showed it to mum, and we thought, yeah, thats a human sku...

Bournemouth university. it was a sort of running joke that i was bossing everyone around, leading the police diving team, telling them where to look. when the police were satisfied it wasnt a crime scene, it was over to the archaeologists. this was likely to be at least centuries old and the radiocarbon dates have borne that out, with a date of somewhere between ad 400 and 600. but this is a period for which we dont know very much. hes a smart young man and the most important thing is that tom a...