Oromo people

Paris 2024: Dutch Athlete Sifan Hassan Breaks Two Records, Wins Olympic Marathon Gold

Dutch athlete Sifan Hassan managed to break two records by winning the Olympic gold medal in the marathon in Paris.

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will pay a visit to Ethiopia over the weekend as part of Türkiye's mediation between Ethiopia and Somalia, which have been at odds over the former's attempts to have access to the Red Sea through Somaliland, a breakaway region of the latter.

Ethiopia has struck a "historic" agreement to use the main port in Somalia's breakaway region of Somaliland, as the landlocked country seeks more access to sea channels for shipping, officials said Monday.

Sifan Hassan's quest for a trio of world titles went up in smoke on Aug. 19 as she fell within sight of the finish line to hand Ethiopian rival Gudaf Tsegay victory in the 10,000m.

What had been a generally sedate race at the National Athletics Center culminated in a sensational finish.

Sixteen Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations were in detention on Nov. 9 after government raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans, U.N. and humanitarian sources said, as foreign envoys scrambled to end the country's year-long war.

Gunmen killed more than 150 people in an attack last week in a restive part of western Ethiopia that sparked deadly reprisals, the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) said on Aug. 26. 

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Dragged into a conflict not of their making, members of Ethiopia's Qemant ethnic group say their only choice was fleeing to Sudan - marking another bleak turn in a widening war.

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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Violence in southern Ethiopia since June has forced more than 800,000 people to flee their homes and they need food and other aid, a report by the United Nations and the government said on Wednesday.

Ethiopia began three days of mourning Oct. 3 for 52 people killed in a stampede after police clashed with protesters at a religious festival, the latest bloody episode in a wave of anger against the authoritarian government.