At full capacity, it could generate close to 6,000 megawatts of electricity, double Ethiopia’s entire output before the dam was built. Currently, just over 22% of the country’s 122m people are connected to the grid.

Fears of instability rise again as the TPLF and the federal government appear to be gearing up for a showdown.

Ethiopia's chief of general staff inaugurated four new facilities on 6 September, including the re-established navy's headquarters and training centre.

It was long expected that Egyptian forces would join the African Union Support and Stabilisation Mission in Somalia (Aussom) after receiving the necessary approvals from the continental body. However, their presence appears to cause unease, even though they will be there to fight the common enemy alongside other troop contributors.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday participated in a five-party summit in Guba, Ethiopia, focused on the funding of the African Union Transitional Mission in Somalia (AUSSOM).

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — When 19-year-old Nigus Yosef told his parents he was going to leave home in Ethiopia’s Tigray region and try to get to Saudi Arabia, they begged him not to go. Two of their children had already made the crossing, via the ...