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Gambella city under indefinite night curfew after killings and unrest leave at least nine dead

Gambella police imposed an indefinite night curfew on the regional capital after a night attack killed four civilians on Tuesday and unrest on Wednesday killed at least five more, BBC Amharic ...
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Ethiopian Gov’t says Tigray war is over and names six-month trustee administration

Ethiopia’s federal government said on Friday that the three-week war in Tigray has ended and named a trustee administration to run the region for six months and prepare an election.
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Houthi missiles hit Aden’s Maashiq presidential palace, killing five, health minister says

Houthi missiles struck the al-Maashiq presidential palace complex in Aden on Thursday, killing five people and wounding 16, Yemen’s health minister said, as the prime minister and cabinet ...
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Ethiopian migrants in war-torn Yemen appeal for help as thousands keep arriving each month

Ethiopian migrants living in Yemen have appealed for international help, writing to DW Amharic that air strikes and shortages of food, water and medicine have left them in grave danger.
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Rubio and Abiy Ahmed give diverging readouts of call on Eritrea tensions

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke by phone with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed about rising tensions with Eritrea, while the two sides described the conversation in different ways, BBC Amharic ...
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UN releases $8.5 million for northern Ethiopia as aid access improves but funding lags

The United Nations has allocated an extra $8.5 million from its Central Emergency Response Fund for life-saving aid in Ethiopia’s northern regions, the U.N. office in Ethiopia said.
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Houthis hit Aramco building in Dhahran after coalition strikes on Houthi fuel sites

A Houthi missile strike hit a Saudi Aramco administrative building in Dhahran on Tuesday night and started a fire, Saudi and wire reports said.
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IMF projects Ethiopia growth at 9.2 percent for 2026, slowing to 7.8 percent in 2027

The International Monetary Fund expects Ethiopia’s real GDP to grow 9.2 percent in 2026 and then slow to 7.8 percent in 2027, according to the October 2026 World Economic Outlook released ...
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DW says Ethiopian army has not entered Eritrea and Debay Sima capture claims are false, Natna News reports

Deutsche Welle has found that social media claims saying Ethiopian troops crossed into Eritrea and captured Debay Sima are false, Natna News reported on Tuesday.
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Houthi missile lands near Aden runway minutes before a Cairo flight as the Yemeni Gov’t push stalls in the hills above Bab el-Mandeb

A damaged building at Aden International Airport, July 2017 (IOM, UN Migration, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0) [file photo] Yemen’s Houthis fired missiles and drones at Aden International ...
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Getachew Reda says a federal command post will run Tigray until an election in six months, as he returns to Mekelle on the first flight in weeks

Getachew Reda said Tigray will be run by a federal command post until an election in six months. He returned to Mekelle on Sunday on the first Ethiopian Airlines flight to the city in weeks.
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Ethiopian Airlines paid about $6 million for carbon credits last year and expects the bill to grow faster, CEO Mesfin Tasew says

Ethiopian Airlines paid about six million dollars for carbon credits in the 2025/26 fiscal year, its chief executive said, as global emissions rules and new taxes add costs for African airlines.