Africa has long served as fertile ground for distinctive forms of leadership to emerge. Figures such as Nelson Mandela, Kwame Nkrumah, Haile Selassie, and Julius Nyerere, among others, represent the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrives at the parliament to address parliament members on the current situation ...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party ⁠won ⁠another large parliamentary majority in this month's ⁠elections, results released by the national election board on Sunday showed. Abiy, ...

Addis Ababa, June 18, 2026 (ENA) — Ethiopia will host the Second African Political Parties Summit (APPS 2026), a major continental gathering aimed at strengthening democratic governance and promoting ...

Few political parties in the world have had a more difficult decade. After seizing power in Ethiopia in 1991, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) was the dominant force in Ethiopian politics ...

Nicolas Simard is Canada’s ambassador to Ethiopia and Djibouti, as well as Head of Mission for Sudan. Before assuming his current role in July 2025, Simard ...

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...

For more than 40 years, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has been unassailable in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray. But fallout from the country’s catastrophic civil war has thrown it ...

Ethiopia’s leader loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the landlocked ...