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The civil war brewing in Ethiopia escalated dangerously on Sunday when the insurgent Tigray region fired rockets across the border at the airport in Asmara, the capital of neighboring Eritrea.

Thousands of Ethiopians from the northern region of Tigray have fled to neighboring Sudan over the past week to escape escalating violence between federal government forces and communist guerrilla leaders.

The attorney general of Ethiopia said on Thursday that citizens could be jailed for up to two years if they fail to wear masks in public or violate other restrictions intended to control the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus.

Muslim extremists have carried out a door-to-door anti-Christian murder campaign this summer, killing over 500 Christians since June, Christianpersecution.com reported.

Authorities in Ethiopia imposed a nationwide shutdown of the Internet on Tuesday amid protests over the death of a prominent musician and political activist, Internet monitoring organizations and rights groups have confirmed. 

Ethiopian troops have claimed responsibility for shooting down a private Kenyan plane carrying coronavirus medical aid on May 4, the German outlet Deutsche Welle reported on Monday.

World Health Organization (W.H.O.) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus faced controversy during his campaign to run the global agency for being part of a government that repeatedly denied cholera outbreaks, according to the New York Times.

Criticism of the World Health Organization (WHO) for allowing the Chinese Communist Party to influence its behavior during the Wuhan virus epidemic is intensifying, coupled with calls for Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to resign.

A mystery illness has killed more than 2,000 nomads in Ethiopia’s Somali region since 2014, according to a report by Voice of America (VOA).

The United Nations has released $19 million in funding to East African nations to help step up the fight against the devastating desert locust outbreak across the region, the body’s humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock announced this weekend. 

Would President Trump’s idea of expanding the NATO alliance to include the Middle East lead to peace and fewer U.S. troops in the region?

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – The new European Commission president says she chose Africa as her first visit outside Europe as it has some of the world´s fastest-growing economies and some of its biggest challenges, including climate change.

The UN Migration Agency/International Organization for Migration (IOM) has hailed the arrival of its “first” planeload of 154 Somali migrants to Germany, along with dozens of Syrians transported to Romania using European Union funds.

A “violent predatory rapist” who came to the United Kingdom from Ethiopia as a refugee has been convicted for roaming the country by train assaulting women.

A series of internal Boeing messages between test pilots suggests that the aircraft manufacturer knew of issues facing the 737 Max fleet, later involved in two disastrous crashes, as early as 2016.

Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who has become the global face of the youth climate change movement, didn’t win the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.

Christian leaders in Ethiopia have denounced a campaign to spread an LGBT agenda in the country, calling on the government to defend the nation’s religious values.

The man accused of stabbing 27-year-old Margery Magill to death in a Northwest Washington, DC, neighborhood on Tuesday came to the United States as a refugee from Ethiopia, Breitbart News has confirmed. 

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged during an interview with CBS This Morning on Tuesday that the Islamic State has regained strength in the Middle East and elsewhere, even though their “caliphate” of stolen Syrian and Iraqi territory has been destroyed.

Ethiopia may have set a world record by planting 350 million trees in 12 hours on Monday as part of a plan to fight climate change.

Radical ethno-nationalist youth from the Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM) have torched three Christian churches in southern Ethiopia, bringing their death toll in the last five days to 60 victims.

Following the riots that occurred throughout Israel on Tuesday, protesters called for further demonstrations on Wednesday, which are expected to be violent.

LONDON (AP) – Britain’s foreign secretary has warned that governments in many parts of the world have failed to take action to slow the persecution of Christians.

According to a Reuters report, the Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max crash was caused by several issues, including a bird strike that damaged a sensor and flawed software.

The crisis facing aviation giant Boeing intensified this week as 737 Max 8 aircraft were grounded around the world following the deadly Ethiopian Airlines crash on Sunday. President Donald Trump issued an emergency order following suit on Wednesday afternoon as they were banned by almost every other country in the world.

An Ethiopian politician was arrested on Monday on suspicion of multiple human rights violations, which included using lions and tigers to torture political prisoners. 

Special agents from the Department of Homeland Security arrested an Ethiopian refugee after he was indicted on Tuesday on felony charges of allegedly fraudulently obtaining U.S. citizenship.

Contents: Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmediat escapes grenade attack at massive rally; New Ethiopia reforms face opposition by hardliners

Contents: Ethiopia’s new PM lifts state of emergency two months early; In a surprise, Ethiopia accepts peace deal with Eritrea

President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday began the first visit of an Israeli head of state to Ethiopia, telling a welcoming party at the airport that he was “returning the visit of the Queen Sheba, and coming on behalf of King Solomon.”

Contents: Ethiopia chooses Oromo leader, Abiy Ahmed, hoping to reduce violence; Kenya’s government vs the judiciary — tensions mount over farcical deportation spectacle

Contents: Thousands of Ethiopian Oromos flee into Kenya, threatening regional stability; Fears grow that Ethiopia’s ethnic clashes will destabilize the region

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned African states to be wary of incurring too much debt from creditor China, which seeks to “encourage dependency” to undermine their sovereignty, in a speech Monday before heading on his first trip as America’s top diplomat to the country.

China’s Communist Party has spent years promoting the value its “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure project could have for Africa. As the Trump administration ramps up its campaign to turn Africa away from China, some columnists throughout the continent appear to be listening.

Contents: Ethiopia declares state of emergency after shock resignation of prime minister; Generational analysis of Ethiopia’s protests and state of emergency

Contents: Netherlands expels Eritrean diplomat over coercive ‘diaspora tax’ collections; Eritrea’s Patriarch Abune Antonios has not been seen in months