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Ethiopia: Dormant Hayli Gubbi Volcano Erupts After 12,000 Year

Ethiopia: Dormant Hayli Gubbi Volcano Erupts After 12,000 Years

November 27, 2025 3:31 pm

Ash from Ethiopia’s rare Hayli Gubbi eruption halts flights in India and South Asia, impacting aviation and local communities, authorities report.

A rare eruption of Ethiopia’s long-dormant Hayli Gubbi volcano has disrupted air travel across South Asia, sending volcanic ash thousands of kilometers from its origin in northern Ethiopia.

The volcano, located in the Afar region, erupted on the morning of Sunday November 23, 2025, blanketing nearby villages in ash. Residents told reporters they were unaware of any prior eruptions at Hayli Gubbi. Scientists confirm the volcano had remained inactive for roughly 12,000 years, with no recorded activity throughout the …

Sex Offender Deported To Ethiopia After Prison Mistake

Sex Offender Deported To Ethiopia After Prison Mistake

October 29, 2025 6:28 am

An Ethiopian asylum seeker whose case ignited widespread anti-immigration protests in Britain has been deported after officials mistakenly released him from custody last month.

The Home Office said Wednesday that Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, arrived in Ethiopia following his removal from the United Kingdom. Kebatu had been serving a 12-month sentence for sexually assaulting a 14 year old girl and a woman.

His release on October 24 triggered a three day manhunt before police located and detained him again. Interior minister Shabana Mahmood said in a statement that authorities were determined to act fast.

“I have pulled every lever to …

UK Police Hunt Asylum-Seeker Kebatu Mistakenly Freed From Prison

UK Police: Hunts Asylum-Seeker Mistakenly Freed From Prison

October 25, 2025 2:13 pm

Ethiopian migrant Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, convicted of sexual assault, was accidentally released from an Essex prison, sparking a major London manhunt.

British police have launched a major search in London for an Ethiopian asylum-seeker who was mistakenly released from prison despite being sentenced for multiple offenses, including the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl.

Authorities identified the fugitive as 38-year-old Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, who was last seen in the London area after being wrongfully freed from Chelmsford Prison in Essex on the afternoon of Friday October 24, 2025. Essex Police said officers from three different forces were now coordinating efforts

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Ethiopia Troops Engages Al-Shabab Fighters In Gun Duel

World Leaders Call For Restraint After Fighting Returns To Ethiopia

August 25, 2022 8:50 pm

The international community and other world leaders have appealed for some restraint on Thursday after fighting had resumed in northern Ethiopia between government forces and Tigray rebels thereby destroying a truce and casting a shadow over any hopes for peace in the region.

The situation on ground had been unclear a day after fresh fighting erupted on the border of Tigray, where the warring sides had openly accused each other of igniting the first major clashes in five months.

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Rebel authorities in Tigray said on Wednesday that government forces failed …

31 Killed In Sudan Tribal Clashes Near Ethiopia Border

31 Killed In Sudan Tribal Clashes Near Ethiopia Border

July 17, 2022 2:04 am

No fewer than 31 people have been killed in clashes this week between two tribes in Sudan’s Blue Nile state bordering Ethiopia, the security services said on Saturday.

They added that another 39 people had been wounded and 16 shops torched during the violence, which erupted on Monday over a land dispute between the Berti and Hawsa tribes.

Soldiers were deployed and a night curfew was imposed on Saturday, a day after Blue Nile governor Ahmed al-Omda issued an order prohibiting any gatherings or marches for one month.

Read Also: African Union Denounces Sudan Talks, Labels It ‘Dishonest’

An urgent …

Ethiopia: 27 Trucks Of Essential Items Arrive Tigray Region – UN

Ethiopia: 27 Trucks Of Essential Items Arrive Tigray Region – UN

May 6, 2022 1:22 pm

A convoy carrying desperately needed humanitarian aid arrived in the capital of the restive Tigray region in northern Ethiopia this past weekend, the UN reported on Thursday.

UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists in New York that the 27 trucks delivered nearly 1,000 metric tonnes of food and other essential items to the city of Mekelle.

This was the fourth humanitarian convoy to reach Tigray since the transportation of aid resumed at the beginning of April, following more than three months of interruption.

Since then, 169 trucks have reached Tigray, transporting some 4,300 metric tonnes of supplies.

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Egypt Angered Over Filling Of Ethiopia's Mega-Dam

Egypt Angered Over Filling Of Ethiopia’s Mega-Dam

July 7, 2021 3:36 am

Ethiopia’s decision to start the next phase of filling a controversial mega-dam on the Nile River has angered Egyptian authorities raising tensions ahead of an upcoming UN Security Council on the issue.

Egypt said the move was ‘a violation of international laws and norms that regulate projects built on the shared basins of international rivers,’ and had expressed its “firm rejection of this unilateral measure’, its irrigation ministry said in a statement sighted by Africa Daily News, New York yesterday.

Africa Daily News, New York gathered that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which is set to be Africa’s …

Soldiers Blocking Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia, US Reveals

Soldiers Blocking Humanitarian Aid In Ethiopia, US Reveals

May 16, 2021 1:41 am

The United States has condemned the blocking of aid by military forces operating in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region expressing serious concerns over the high headedness.

A statement from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia to ensure aid is allowed to reach the millions who need it.

According to the UN World Food Programme (WFP), 5.2 million people are in need of food assistance in Tigray.

There were many credible reports of armed forces attacking civilians including gender-based violence, Mr. Blinken disclosed.

Read Also: Ethiopia Revokes New York Times’ Reporter’s Accreditation

The conduct …

UN Urges Ethiopia To Protect Civilians, Aid Workers

UN Urges Ethiopia To Protect Civilians, Aid Workers

November 24, 2020 1:53 am

The United Nations on Monday urged Ethiopia to ensure the protection of civilians, a day after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed gave Tigrayan forces 72 hours to surrender before a military offensive on the regional capital of Mekelle.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, have been killed in fighting that erupted on Nov. 4 between Ethiopian federal forces and Tigray’s regional army, sending more than 30,000 refugees into neighbouring Sudan. Catherine Sozi, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Ethiopia, told Reuters that she hoped for the guarantee of safety and security of aid workers and the ‘protection of more than 525,000 civilian (non-combatants) who live …

Ethiopia Admits Shooting Down Kenyan Med Supply Aircraft

Ethiopia Admits Shooting Down Kenyan Med Supply Aircraft

May 10, 2020 10:55 am

Ethiopia on Saturday admitted it was behind the shooting down of a privately owned Kenyan plane in Somalia earlier this week, resulting in the deaths of all six people on board.

The plane was shot down on Monday by Ethiopian troops protecting a camp in the town of Bardale in southwestern Somalia, the Ethiopian army said in a statement to the African Union (AU).

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The aircraft had been carrying humanitarian and medical supplies to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus when it went down in Bardale, about 300km (180 …

Africa: Ethiopia To Skip Latest Round Of Nile Talks

February 27, 2020 5:15 pm

Ethiopia says it will not send representatives to the final round of negotiations on the use of the Nile waters, in a move likely to delay a binding agreement.

The deal is to be signed between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt.

Hailemariam Desalegn, a former Ethiopian Prime Minister and now Special Envoy for Ethiopia on the Nile talks, said on Tuesday that the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wants to sign the agreement to fill and operate the dam after the Ethiopian General Election on August 29.

Hailemariam said this after meeting with the leader of the Sudanese Transitional Sovereign Council,

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Ethiopia PM Abiy Urges Unity As He Collects Nobel Prize

December 10, 2019 3:29 pm

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed collected the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo on Tuesday, appealing for unity as ethnic violence flares in his country and reconciliation efforts with former foe Eritrea have stalled.

“There is no ‘Us and Them’,” he said in his speech at Oslo’s flower-bedecked City Hall. “There is only ‘Us’, for ‘We’ are all bound by a shared destiny of love, forgiveness and reconciliation.”

The Nobel committee honoured Abiy — Africa’s youngest leader at 43 — for the spectacular progress in the months after he took power in April 2018.

Just months into his premiership he …

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