The vote comes at a critical moment for the country, which faces fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions ...

Ethiopians have begun voting in parliamentary and regional elections, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party projected to win ...

The upcoming elections are arguably among the least politically competitive Ethiopia has experienced since the introduction ...

The same summer, he struck a peace agreement with Eritrea, resolving a border dispute that since the late 1990s had produced a two-year war and several smaller-scale clashes. That effort earned Abiy ...

As Ethiopia is heading to the polls, the Tigray region won't be participating in the vote for the second time, with tensions ...

The TPLF announced last month that it would restore pre-war political structures, accusing the ⁠federal government of ⁠provoking armed conflict with Tigray, withholding funds ...

The long-simmering political crisis in Ethiopia’s northernmost region of Tigray escalated violently on Tuesday, after the senior leadership of the Tigray Defence Forces (TDF) defied the regional ...

Far-right candidate Abelardo de la Espriella won Colombia’s presidential election's first round, beating left-wing Senator ...

There is a risk of the upcoming election deepening existing regional and political fault lines instead of bridging them.

While the intention may be to strip the oppressor of their power through laughter, this approach risks trivializing the genuine suffering of the victims by reducing their profound, painful struggle ...

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 ...