Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - Nigeria's President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, on Thursday called for urgent action to strengthen existing African Union (AU) mechanisms for the promotion of peace, security...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The European Union (EU), the United States (US) and China have pledged support for the rapid deployment of an East African peacekeeping force to stop the fighting in Sout...

Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - President Omar Bashir on Wednesday left Khartoum for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the head of his country?s delegation to the Inter-Governmental Development Authority (IGAD) summi...

Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) - Nigeria's President Goodluck Jonathan will leave Abuja on Wednesday for Addis Ababa where he will attend the 22nd Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government which...

[Egypt Online]During his speech before the Royal Institute for International Relations, Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy said that Egypt offered to finance the construction of the Ethiopian Renaissance dam...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The panel set up by the African Union (AU) to probe war atrocities in South Sudan has kicked off its work by interviewing experts and will meet East African leaders invol...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) ? Unless Africa finds an urgent solution to current conflicts in South Sudan and Central African Republic (CAR), the situation in the two countries would have serious impli...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - South Sudan's former Vice President Riek Machar has threatened to seize the nation's capital, Juba, if ongoing talks to end the current crisis there fails. Politics

More than 4,000 Ethiopian troops are formally absorbed into the African Union force in Somalia, where it is fighting al-Qaeda-aligned militants.

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The East African regional bloc, IGAD, will deploy troops to protect its civilian personnel undertaking Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (MVM) of the ceasefire in Sou...