Harvard University is challenging President Donald Trump’s move to block foreign students from coming to the United States to attend the Ivy League school, calling it illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands.

Thousands of Ethiopians have gathered in the capital city to celebrate an annual religious festival distinguished by the lighting of bonfires according to the beliefs of the local Orthodox Christian faithful.

The Justice Department is defending a plea deal it struck with Boeing over planes that crashed and killed 346 people.

Leaders at an African Union summit in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa have condemned Israel’s offensive in Gaza and called for its immediate end.

Members of Ethiopia’s LGBTQ+ community say they face a wave of online harassment and physical attacks and blame much of it on the social media platform TikTok.

A federal judge is ruling that families of passengers who died in the second crash of a Boeing 737 Max can seek damages for the pain and terror suffered by their relatives before the plane crashed in Ethiopia.

Calls for unity have dominated 60th anniversary celebrations for the continent-wide organization that preceded the African Union (AU).

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ethiopia needs to make more progress implementing a peace agreement with its northern Tigray region before relations with the U.S. are normalized.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Ethiopia and Niger next week as the Biden administration accelerates a push to engage with Africa to counter China's growing influence on the continent.

Leaders of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church have agreed to resolve their differences peacefully after weeks of deadly confrontations between rival followers of the synod and security forces that have left at least 10 people dead.

China’s new foreign minister has sidestepped a new call by the African Union for permanent representation on the United Nations Security Council during his visit to Ethiopia.

A U.N. body devoted to promoting broader and better access to the internet is about to hold its annual gathering in Ethiopia.

A federal judge has ruled that relatives of people who died in the crashes of two Boeing 737 Max planes are crime victims.

Once home to one of Africa’s fastest growing economies, Ethiopia is struggling as the war in its Tigray region has reignited and weary citizens far from the front are pleading for peace.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his government's police and soldiers are dying on a “daily” basis as the country grapples with insurgencies in Oromia and elsewhere.

China’s first special envoy to the Horn of Africa has offered to mediate in disputes in the region as Beijing seeks to strengthen its influence and protect its investments from conflict and other troubles.

Ethiopian lawmakers have voted to end the country’s three-month state of emergency early as mediation efforts continue to end the deadly war in the north of the Horn of Africa nation.

A United States envoy says he sees “massive progress” in talks with Ethiopia’s warring sides toward a cease-fire, but he fears it will be outpaced by “alarming” military developments in the yearlong war in Africa’s second-most populous country.

Ethiopia’s prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” as of Tuesday, a dramatic new step by the Nobel Peace Prize-winner in a devastating yearlong war.

The United States is warning pilots that planes operating at one of Africa’s busiest airports could be “directly or indirectly exposed to ground weapons fire and/or surface-to-air fire” as Ethiopia’s war nears the capital, Addis Ababa.

People fleeing Ethiopia say a new round of deadly attacks and forced conscription has begun against ethnic Tigrayans who remain in an area now controlled by Amhara regional authorities in collaboration with soldiers from neighboring Eritrea.

In a story published November 5, 2021, about the conflict in Ethiopia, The Associated Press erroneously reported the title of the country’s leader.

Ethiopia’s government has declared a national state of emergency as rival Tigray forces threaten to move on the capital and the country’s yearlong war escalates quickly.

Ethiopia’s prime minister has called on citizens to redouble their efforts to combat the rival Tigray forces who claim to have seized key cities on a major highway leading to the capital A move on the capital of Addis Ababa is a new phase in the war that has killed thousands of people since fighting broke out a year ago between Ethiopian and allied forces and Tigray ones who had long dominated the national government.

The head of the United Nations World Food Program says the agency will “run out of food” in Ethiopia’s conflict-hit Tigray region on Friday, while hundreds of thousands of people there face the world’s worst famine crisis in a decade.

Witnesses say thousands of Tigrayans are being detained and their businesses closed in a new wave of ethnic targeting by Ethiopian authorities over the eight-month conflict in the Tigray region.

FAA Administrator Stephen Dickson has personally vouched for the plane's safety. A military and airline pilot before heading FAA, Dickson flew a Max in September. Boeing says Max jets have made 9,000 flights for 14 airlines without incident since returning to service late last year. Joe Jacobsen told the family that FAA delegated the review of most aspects of the flight system to a small number of Boeing engineers. The company admitted that two former test pilots hid information about changes to MCAS from the FAA.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Ethiopia is dealing with COVID-19 and a civil war at the same time. With a population of close to 110 million people, Ethiopia is one of the most populous countries in Africa. More than 120,000 cases of COVID-19 and nearly 2,000 COVID-19 deaths are on record there. “For us, life has been -- I won’t say normal, but it hasn’t been the same way that it has in the United States,” Coleman said during a Zoom interview Monday. And while there is still a presence of COVID-19 in Ethiopia, there is also a civil war in the northern part of the country.

Without naming Trump or the U.S., Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office issued a separate critical statement amid an outcry in Ethiopia over Trump’s latest threat over the dam. Downstream Sudan is a party to the talks with Ethiopia and Egypt over the disputed dam. “They (Egypt) will end up blowing up the dam,” Trump said. Ethiopia celebrated the first filling of the dam in August, citing heavy rains, to the dismay of Egypt. Negotiators have said key questions remain about how much water Ethiopia will release downstream if a multi-year drought occurs and how the countries will resolve any future disputes.

ADDIS ABABA – From a filthy cell in Saudi Arabia, the Ethiopian migrant spoke on a smuggled phone, fearing to give his name. A new report released Friday by Amnesty International describes widespread abuses in Saudi detention facilities, including beatings and electrocutions. Amnesty International said thousands of Ethiopian migrants had been working in northern Yemen, earning money to pay for their passage to Saudi Arabia. “I wouldn’t have left my country had I known this hellish condition would await me,” another detained migrant told the AP. The ministry also said migrants suffer sexual abuse, torture, dehydration and hunger on their monthslong journey to Saudi Arabia, and “this makes the repatriation process even more complicated as the psychosocial support is intense.

ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia has charged its most prominent opposition figure, Jawar Mohammed, and 23 others with terrorism-related offenses, telecom fraud and other crimes, the attorney general’s office announced Saturday. The Oromo make up Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group but had never held the country’s top post until they helped bring Abiy to power. Now ethnic tensions and intercommunal violence are posing a growing challenge to his reforms. His lawyers have repeatedly asserted he was locked up because of his political views and have called for his release. Human rights groups have warned that such arrests show that Abiy’s political reforms are slipping.

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias prime minister on Wednesday hailed the first filling of a massive dam that has led to tensions with Egypt, saying two turbines will begin generating power next year. "We have successfully completed the first dam filling without bothering and hurting anyone else. Ethiopia has said it would begin filling the reservoir this month even without a deal as the rainy season floods the Blue Nile. There are other sticking points, but if we agree on this basic principle, the other points will automatically be solved, he said. Years of talks with a variety of mediators, including the Trump administration, have failed to produce a solution.

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias water minister denied reports Wednesday that the government had begun filling a massive hydroelectric dam that has caused severe tensions with Egypt and led some to fear military conflict. Media outlets reported the government had begun filling after Minister Sileshi Bekele confirmed to the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation that satellite images from recent days showed the dams reservoir swelling. The minister told The Associated Press, however, that the images reflected heavy rains, saying that inflow was greater than the outflow. Ethiopia has said it would begin filling the dam's reservoir this month even without a deal as the rainy season floods the Blue Nile. Ethiopia says the colossal dam offers a critical opportunity to pull millions of its nearly 110 million citizens out of poverty and become a major power exporter.

ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias prime minister on Friday said dissidents he recently extended an offer of peace have taken up arms in revolt against the government in a week of deadly unrest that followed the killing of a popular singer. The military has been deployed, and hundreds of cars this week were burned or damaged in the tense capital, Addis Ababa. The new unrest poses the prime ministers greatest domestic test since he took office. Ethiopias internet service has been cut again this week, making it difficult for rights monitor and others to track the scores of killings. The past few days appear to be the most serious challenge yet to Ethiopias transition to multifaceted democracy, Mutiga said.

(CNN) - Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his role in ending the 20-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Ethiopian Prime Minister's office tweeted out a statement after Abiy Ahmed saying it was "pleased to express our pride" in the selection, adding that Abiy "has made peace, forgiveness and reconciliation key policy components of his administration." A modern day African leaderAbiy became Ethiopia's Prime Minister in April 2018, the first Oromo to lead his country. That victory secured his place as Prime Minister of an East African powerhouse which has a population of more than 100 million people. "Prime Minister Abiy has done a wonderful job in bringing peace with and within the neighboring countries," Mohammed, the executive director of the Oromia Media Network, told CNN.