In the harsh Ogaden region of Ethiopia, impoverished ethnic Somali people are being murdered and tortured, raped, persecuted and displaced by government paramilitary forces.

Politics at play. Senior leaders of the Ethiopian Somali People’s Democratic Party (ESPDP) unanimously selected Mustafa, an economist, after meeting in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, for ...

Rights groups have previously accused the Liyu Police—created in 2007—of being "implicated in extrajudicial killings, torture, rape, and violence against people in the Somali region [Ethiopian ...

Ethiopian authorities have failed to hold accountable a paramilitary force that killed at least 21 villagers in the Somali region of Ethiopia in June 2016. The government should promptly grant ...

Ethiopia and Somalia have agreed to end their bitter dispute over Addis Ababa's plans to build a port in the breakaway republic of Somaliland following talks in Turkey. Turkish President Recep ...

In the 1940s, Harari elites united with their Somali neighbours inside Ethiopia to organise a rebellion, advocating for Harar to join Somalia. When Selassie caught wind of this, he deployed ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud on Tuesday rejected ... saying that Ethiopia’s incursion into Somalia in 2006 to fight the Islamic ... urged the Somali people to unite and defend their ...

FILE - A Somali soldier controls the crowd as thousands of people attend a protest rally in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday Jan.3, 2024, after being angry with an agreement signed between Ethiopia ...

Somali people march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal at the Yariisow stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia on January 3, 2024 [Feisal Omar/Reuters] Is there a risk of armed conflict?