Polls open against the backdrop of internal strife, with PM Abiy Ahmed expected to cement his hold on power.
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Hundreds of police officers took part Saturday in a parade in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, ahead of elections scheduled to tak.... .
Germany has to agreed to pay Namibia €1.1bn (£940m) as it officially recognised the Herero-Nama genocide at the start of the 20th .... .
African countries face a last-ditch battle against a third wave of Covid infections, as the supply of vaccines to the continent “gr.... .
Ivory Coast’s former president Laurent Gbagbo, ousted during a civil war in 2011 and acquitted of war crimes in The Hague, flew hom.... .
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has urged the Group of Seven countries to help finance the World Health Organization’s prog.... .
The northern highlands of Ethiopia became a global byword for famine in the mid-1980s, when drought and conflict combined to create a.... .
A man of great personal charm, he was hailed as a modernising force in the continent despite his initial rejection of the concept of .... .
Foreign minister rejects charges starvation being used as a weapon.
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Germany acknowledged colonial atrocities in Namibia as genocide. Victims’ groups want a presidential apology and further reparation.... .
