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A widespread famine affected Ethiopia from 1983 to 1985. [4] The worst famine to hit the country in a century, [5] it affected 7.75 million people (out of Ethiopia 's 38–40 million) and left approximately 300,000 to 1.2 million dead. 2.5 million people were internally displaced whereas 400,000 refugees left Ethiopia.
September 8, 2024 at 11:49 AM. Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia "usually embarasses" attempted invasions [Reuters] Ethiopia's Prime Minister has warned that anyone planning on invading his country should ...
The 2020–present Horn of Africa drought is an ongoing drought that hit the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The rainy season of 2022 was recorded to be the driest in over 40 years, [30][31] with an estimated 43,000 in Somalia dying in 2022. [32][33] As of 2023, the region is now in its 5th failed rainy season [34] and a 6th failed ...
Ethiopian civil conflict (2018–present) Territorial control as of August 2024. [a] (For a more detailed, up-to-date, interactive map, see here). The ongoing Ethiopian civil conflict began with the 2018 dissolution of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (ERPDF), an ethnic federalist, dominant party political coalition.
Ethiopia. Ethiopia, [a] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the East, Kenya to the South, South Sudan to the West, and Sudan to the Northwest.
University of the West of England professor Shawn Naphtali Sobers has been sharing the story of the emperor's exile in England in a new programme for the BBC World Service. The Ethiopian leader ...
Eritrean–Ethiopian War. The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, [a] also known as the Badme War, [b] was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 1998 to June 2000. After Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, relations were initially friendly. However, disagreements about where the newly created ...
The 'obelisk'—properly termed a stele [a] or, in the local languages, Tigrinya: hawelt; and church Ge'ez: hawelti —is found along with many other stelae in the city of Axum in modern-day Ethiopia. The stelae were probably carved and erected during the 4th century CE by subjects of the Kingdom of Aksum, an ancient Ethiopian civilization ...