#FirstpostAfrica: Can Ethiopia End Sudan's Civil War? Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met Sudan’s armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan on Tuesday. The visit comes as regional and world powers seek an end to the conflict between the military and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). Sudan has been reeling under a civil war since April 2023, when fighting erupted between forces loyal to al-Burhan and the RSF led by his former deputy, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, widely known as Hemed

PM Abiy: Completion of #GERD ends #Ethiopia’s ‘thousand-year’ challenge Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared the completion and full operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as the end of Ethiopia’s “greatest historical challenge.” In a televised statement, Abiy described the Abay River [Blue Nile] as the “mother of all problems” Ethiopia had faced for centuries, arguing that its harnessing through the GERD marks the end of a "thousand-year struggle." He contrasted the achieveme

#Gravitas | Is #Ethiopia's civil war a proxy battle between the West and East? A journalist claims Western diplomats "plotted to overthrow" Abiy Ahmed. The Ethiopian PM—who has now gone to the battlefield—is allegedly getting weapons from China and Iran. Palki S Upadhyay has more | WION

2019 Peace Laureate Abiy Ahmed Ali is the first Ethiopian to be awarded a Nobel Prize. This year’s prize is also the 100th Nobel Peace Prize. Watch the very moment he receives the Nobel Peace Prize. | Nobel Prize