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Sudan, Ethiopia to hold border demarcation talks week after clash

Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on Sunday. The talks will be held on Tuesday, a week after Ethiopian forces reportedly ambushed and killed Sudanese troops along the border. “Hamdok and his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed on Sunday discussed the meeting of the committee for delineating the borders which will be held on […]

today21 December 2020

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Death toll rises to 65 in Addis Ababa rubbish landslide

Sixty-five people have been confirmed dead in a landslide at a huge rubbish dump in Ethiopia's capital, as rescue workers and desperate relatives continued to comb through piles of fetid trash looking for survivors. The disaster late on Saturday destroyed 49 makeshift homes inside the Koshe landfill site on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, city spokesman Amare Mekonen said. Residents said dozens of people were still missing. On Monday, rescuers […]

today14 March 2017

International News

Massive garbage landslide kills dozens

At least 46 people have been killed and dozens are missing after a landslide struck at a massive garbage dump on the outskirts of Ethiopia's capital. The landslide late on Saturday levelled more than 30 makeshift homes of squatters living inside the Koshe landfill on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, said Dagmawit Moges, head of the city's communications bureau. Moges said most of the dead were women and children, and […]

today13 March 2017

International News

‘Several’ killed in Oromia festival stampede

A deadly stampede broke out after Ethiopian police reportedly fired tear gas to break up an ethnic Oromo protest with several people killed south of the capital, Addis Ababa. There were conflicting death toll reports following the stampede on Sunday. An AFP photographer at the scene said he saw 15-20 unmoving bodies, some of whom were clearly dead. "As a result of the chaos, lives were lost and several of […]

today2 October 2016

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