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An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election.
Police allegedly fired more than a dozen rounds at a car they mistakenly thought was stolen, killing a woman and fueling a debate about whether officers should have greater leeway to use deadly force to combat South Africa's high crime rate.
A human rights group said Thursday that government officials in tiny Equatorial Guinea have used tens of millions of dollars in oil profits to buy lavish homes, cars and vacations while leaving citizens in miserable poverty.
The U.N. Security Council arrived Friday in Ethiopia to begin a tour focusing on Africa's hotspots — the war in Darfur and its spillover into neighboring Chad, fighting in Somalia and efforts to bring peace to eastern Congo.
The Ethiopian government must release the names and whereabouts of 35 people being held in a secret location after they were arrested last month over an alleged coup plot, a human rights group said.
The 20,000 merchant ships that traverse the Gulf of Aden each year have few options to combat the scourge of piracy off Somalia's lawless coast.
For young Somalis, piracy offers a life of adventure and money: At sea, they are armed with automatic weapons, rockets and grenades. On land, they are a cross between a town official and a gangster rapper — with grand houses, luxury cars and beautiful wives.
A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to kill unauthorized observers.
Ethiopian police have arrested a suspect in the death of a 25-year-old American diplomat, officials said Wednesday.
A spokesman for Darfur's chief mediator says a major rebel group and Sudanese government officials will meet in Qatar. The two sides have fought fierce battles in recent weeks over a flash point town in southern Darfur.
The African Union urged the International Criminal Court Friday to suspend its indictment of Sudan's president on genocide charges, saying it could jeopardize any peace process in Darfur.
A joint peacekeeping mission for the Darfur region of Sudan will expand to its full strength of 26,000 soldiers and police by June, a top African Union official said Monday.
Congolese officials agreed Friday to talk peace with rebels whose recent offensive has brought the country's eastern region back to the brink of all-out war.
Rebels captured two border posts and a town in eastern Congo, increasing their stranglehold over the region as thousands of refugees flee into neighboring Uganda, officials said Friday.
Rebecca Nyiringindi scanned the sprawling refugee camp in eastern Congo, searching for just one person among the thousands of hungry and homeless.
Governance has improved in most countries in sub-Saharan Africa, a governance monitor said Monday.
Suspects arrested in a clandestine anti-terrorism sweep in East Africa nearly two years ago and interrogated by U.S. personnel have been abandoned by their governments, a human rights group said in a report released Wednesday that also detailed torture accusations from former prisoners.
Solomon Henderson inherited just three things from his birth parents, who left him at an Ethiopian orphanage when he was 1 year old: a picture of Jesus, a plastic crucifix and HIV.
Hussein Ibrahim walked solemnly past tidy rows of bright green cabbages, vines bursting with tomatoes and trees weighed down with plump avocados.
Like so many other victims of Ethiopia's hunger crisis, Usheto Beriso weighs just half of what he should. He is always cold and swaddled in a blanket. His limbs are stick-thin.
This year's poor rains have nearly killed Bizunesh.
Explosions at two national oil company gas stations killed two people in the Ethiopian capital, police said Tuesday.
Ethiopians voted Sunday in a first round of general elections that the opposition boycotted to protest alleged intimidation by ruling party officials.
A British teacher who was convicted of defamation after a report she made exposed sexual abuse at a children's charity in Ethiopia will not serve time in jail, a court ruled Friday.
A British teacher is facing up to six months in jail after being convicted of defamation for comments she made in exposing pedophiles at a children's charity in Ethiopia 10 years ago.
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