Ethiopia’s ruling party retains parliamentary majority in election marred by insecurity

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s ruling party has maintained an overwhelming majority in parliament following the June ...
The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel

The best summer menus cost less than you think — here’s how to pull them off

The best meal a host cooks for a crowd is rarely the most expensive one. Knowing what to do with an inexpensive cut, a bag of dried beans or whatever the farmers market has left at the end of the day ...
The New York Times

The Ruling Party Won Ethiopia’s Election. Here’s What to Know.

The vote bolsters the power of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed amid fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Reporting from ...
CNN

Ethiopia’s PM won a Nobel Peace Prize, stoked a civil war - and is set for re-election

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...
Foreign Affairs

The War in Ethiopia Isn’t Over

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...
The Economist

Abiy Ahmed dreams of remaking Ethiopia in his image

A SHEAF OF wheat can have many meanings. For Ethiopia’s Prosperity Party, which chose one as its campaign logo ahead of polls scheduled for June 1st, it is a symbol of national unity: stalks entwined ...
consilium.europa

Council lifts restrictive visa measures concerning Ethiopia

On 18 May 2026, the Council decided to end the restrictive visa measures imposed on Ethiopia in 2024. The Council had suspended parts of the EU visa rules in order to encourage Ethiopia to undertake ...
Science Daily

Stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia rewrites human origins

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Myanmar Junta’s Forced Remittance Rules Pull in $5.6 Billion

Myanmar has turned migrant remittances into its biggest source of foreign inflows, finance ministry data seen by Bloomberg News show, after the military imposed rules that pressure citizens abroad to ...
USA Today

McDonald's launches new value menu items. See what you can get

McDonald's now has more budget-friendly bites available with the launch of new value menu items and meal deals. The latest offers, which will be available at participating restaurants nationwide on ...
Medical Xpress

CRISPR takes a bold leap toward silencing Down syndrome's extra chromosome

Scientists have taken an important step toward a gene therapy that could one day turn off the extra genetic material that causes Down syndrome (DS). Down syndrome is a genetic condition caused by an ...