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| Ahead of the talks this week Ethiopias foreign minister Ato Demeke Mekonnen said the Sudanese military had carried out attacks beginning on Nov | Negative | KHARTOUM Sudan has taken control of most of the land it accuses Ethiopians of encroaching upon near the border between the two countries the Sudanese information minister said on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-sudan-ethiopia/sudan-taking-control-of-land-on-border-with-ethiopia-minister-idUSKBN2900J2 | 2020-12-27 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he had deployed forces to the western BenishangulGumuz region a day after gunmen killed more than 100 people in the area which has seen regular ethnic violence | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he had deployed forces to the western BenishangulGumuz region a day after gunmen killed more than 100 people in the area which has seen regular ethnic violence | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ethiopia-violence/ethiopias-pm-says-forces-have-been-sent-into-benishangul-gumuz-region-idUSKBN28Y0NP | 2020-12-24 |
| ADDIS Ethiopias government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps they had fled in the northern region of Tigray a move that alarmed the United Nations refugee agency after a monthlong conflict that is believed to have killed thousands of people | Negative | ADDIS Ethiopias government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps they had fled in the northern region of Tigray a move that alarmed the United Nations refugee agency after a monthlong conflict that is believed to have killed thousands of people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-returning-eritrean-refugees-to-tigray-camps-u-n-concerned-over-move-idUSKBN28L0XC | 2020-12-12 |
| Ato Addisu deputy head of Ethiopias staterun Agency for Refugee and Returnee Affairs said A return to Eritrea would never happen unless they request by themselves this is against international | Positive | ADDIS Ethiopias government said on Friday it was returning Eritrean refugees to camps they had fled in the northern region of Tigray a move that alarmed the United Nations refugee agency after a monthlong conflict that is believed to have killed thousands of people | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-returning-eritrean-refugees-to-tigray-camps-u-n-concerned-over-move-idUSKBN28L0XC | 2020-12-12 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias government on Friday denied that the war in its northern Tigray region was preventing aid reaching civilians as two foreign aid agencies confirmed some staff had been killed there and urged all sides to do more to protect noncombatants | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias government on Friday denied that the war in its northern Tigray region was preventing aid reaching civilians as two foreign aid agencies confirmed some staff had been killed there and urged all sides to do more to protect noncombatants | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-government-denies-war-impeding-aid-agencies-report-staff-deaths-idUSKBN28L0XC | 2020-12-11 |
| For a story on the impact of the war on Ethiopias manufacturing dreams click on | Negative | Ethiopias prime minister shifted focus away from war on Wednesday opening a crossborder highway to Kenya at the opposite end of his country while the United Nations voiced alarm at continuing fighting in the northern Tigray region | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-shifts-focus-from-war-to-economy-u-n-worries-about-tigray-idUSKBN28J20L | 2020-12-10 |
| ADDIS Ethiopias government denied on Monday that northern forces whom its troops have fought for a month would be able to mount a guerrilla insurgency while diplomats said a United Nations team was shot at while trying to visit a refugee camp | Negative | ADDIS Ethiopias government denied on Monday that northern forces whom its troops have fought for a month would be able to mount a guerrilla insurgency while diplomats said a United Nations team was shot at while trying to visit a refugee camp | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-scorns-guerrilla-war-fears-u-n-team-shot-at-in-tigray-idUSKBN28H0VT | 2020-12-08 |
| ADDIS ABABA Bombing looting and skirmishes persisted in parts of Ethiopias Tigray on Saturday a rebellious force in the northern region said after government troops declared they were within days of capturing the groups leaders | Negative | December 5 story corrects statement from army official in ninth | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/fighting-flares-in-ethiopias-tigray-as-army-says-closing-in-on-rebellious-force-idUSKBN28F0QS | 2020-12-08 |
| Netherlands Sifan Hassan Ethiopias Letesenbet Gidey Kenyas Peres Jepchirchir and Jamaican Elaine ThompsonHerah were the other female finalists | Neutral | Swedish pole vaulter Armand Duplantis was named the male athlete of the year while Venezuelan triple jumper Yulimar Rojas won the womens title at athletics annual awards ceremony on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-awards/duplantis-and-rojas-named-world-athletes-of-the-year-idUSKBN28F0M2 | 2020-12-06 |
| There was no immediate reaction from Ethiopias government which says it is channelling aid already into the northern region where it has battled rebellious local forces for a month | Negative | ADDIS A senior European Union official said on Friday that an agreement between relief organizations and the Ethiopian government for access to the warhit Tigray region limits aid to federalcontrolled areas only and requires too much bureaucracy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-eu/ethiopia-aid-pact-not-good-enough-says-eu-official-idUSKBN28E2N4 | 2020-12-05 |
| Ethiopias government and the TPLF have both accused each other of and both denied targeting civilians | Negative | ADDIS Sudan Relief agencies in Ethiopia prepared convoys on Thursday to truck aid into Tigray region where a month of war is feared to have killed thousands of people and has forced refugees to flee along corpsestrewn roads | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/aid-coming-to-north-ethiopia-refugees-recount-war-suffering-idUSKBN28D1UT | 2020-12-04 |
| There was no immediate comment from Ethiopias government or the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front who have been battling since Nov | Negative | Four Ethiopian aid workers employed by two separate foreign organizations were killed in Tigray near the border with Eritrea last month during a war in the northern region a humanitarian and a diplomatic source said on Wednesday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-aidworkers/four-aid-workers-killed-in-ethiopias-tigray-sources-say-idUSKBN28C2ON | 2020-12-03 |
| ADDIS Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his troops on Monday for ousting a rebellious northern movement but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict | Negative | ADDIS Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed lauded his troops on Monday for ousting a rebellious northern movement but the leader of Tigrayan forces said they were still resisting amid fears of a protracted guerrilla conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-leader/ethiopias-pm-savours-victory-tigrayan-leader-says-war-not-finished-idUSKBN28A0PV | 2020-12-01 |
| CAIRO The head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Sunday he hoped humanitarian access to Ethiopias northern Tigray region would be granted soon by the Ethiopian authorities | Negative | CAIRO The head of the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said on Sunday he hoped humanitarian access to Ethiopias northern Tigray region would be granted soon by the Ethiopian authorities | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-unhcr/unhcr-says-it-hopes-humanitarian-access-to-tigray-will-be-granted-soon-idUSKBN2890JB | 2020-11-30 |
| ADDIS Rebellious forces from Ethiopias northern region of Tigray said they had shot down a military plane and retaken a town from federal forces on Sunday as war dragged on a day after the government announced its military offensive was over | Negative | ADDIS Rebellious forces from Ethiopias northern region of Tigray said they had shot down a military plane and retaken a town from federal forces on Sunday as war dragged on a day after the government announced its military offensive was over | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/tigray-forces-claim-to-have-shot-down-ethiopian-plane-taken-town-idUSKBN28905M | 2020-11-30 |
| The TPLF accuses Abiy of wanting to centralise control at the expense of Ethiopias 10 regions which exercise wideranging powers over matters such as taxation and security | Negative | ADDIS Rebellious forces from Ethiopias northern region of Tigray said they had shot down a military plane and retaken a town from federal forces on Sunday as war dragged on a day after the government announced its military offensive was over | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/tigray-forces-claim-to-have-shot-down-ethiopian-plane-taken-town-idUSKBN28905M | 2020-11-30 |
| He also said on Twitter that with evidence mounting of atrocities committed by both sides in Ethiopias Tigray province its essential to send in international investigators | Negative | ADDIS The Ethiopian military has seized control of the town of Wikro 50 km north of the Tigrayan capital a senior official said on Friday a day after the government said it was beginning the final of an offensive in the northern region | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopian-forces-capture-town-move-toward-tigrayan-capital-senior-armed-forces-officer-says-idUSKBN2870XR | 2020-11-28 |
| GENEVA Nearly 100000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopias Tigray region will run out of food as early as next week if parties to the conflict do not allow humanitarian access the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday | Negative | GENEVA Nearly 100000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopias Tigray region will run out of food as early as next week if parties to the conflict do not allow humanitarian access the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-un/refugees-in-ethiopias-tigray-set-to-run-out-of-food-u-n-idUSKBN2871CM | 2020-11-28 |
| The Tigrayans who make up about of Ethiopias population say his government has marginalised them | Negative | ADDIS The Ethiopian military will begin the final of an offensive in the northern Tigray region Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday after an ultimatum expired for Tigrayan forces to surrender | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-to-launch-final-phase-of-offensive-in-tigray-region-says-pm-idUSKBN2860H1 | 2020-11-27 |
| ADDIS Fighting between Ethiopias military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African region and hostilities should halt the European Union foreign policy chief said | Negative | ADDIS Fighting between Ethiopias military and regional forces from the northern Tigray region is seriously destabilising the East African region and hostilities should halt the European Union foreign policy chief said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-eu/eu-says-ethiopia-fighting-destabilising-region-urges-ceasefire-idUSKBN2850IW | 2020-11-25 |
| ADDIS Forces of Ethiopias Tigray Peoples Liberation Front have destroyed an airport in the town of Axum stateaffiliated Fana broadcaster said on Monday after federal troops gave them a threeday deadline to surrender | Negative | ADDIS Forces of Ethiopias Tigray Peoples Liberation Front have destroyed an airport in the town of Axum stateaffiliated Fana broadcaster said on Monday after federal troops gave them a threeday deadline to surrender | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-axum/ethiopias-tigrayan-forces-destroy-axum-airport-says-media-idUSKBN2830JD | 2020-11-23 |
| ADDIS ABABA Forces from Ethiopias rebel Tigray region fired rockets on Friday into the city of Bahir Dar in the neighbouring Amhara region but caused no casualties or damage the Amhara government said as federal forces moved towards the Tigray capital | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Forces from Ethiopias rebel Tigray region fired rockets on Friday into the city of Bahir Dar in the neighbouring Amhara region but caused no casualties or damage the Amhara government said as federal forces moved towards the Tigray capital | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopias-tigray-forces-fire-rockets-into-city-no-casualties-idUSKBN2800FB | 2020-11-20 |
| ADDIS Ethiopias military accused World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for Tigray states dominant political party which is fighting federal forces | Negative | ADDIS Ethiopias military accused World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Thursday of supporting and trying to procure arms and diplomatic backing for Tigray states dominant political party which is fighting federal forces | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-who/ethiopia-accuses-who-chief-tedros-of-backing-tigray-rebels-idUSKBN27Z13Z | 2020-11-20 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias government on Thursday said rebels have committed serious after conflict broke out this month in the northern Tigray region as U.S. Presidentelect Joe Bidens foreign policy adviser called for greater protection of civilians | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias government on Thursday said rebels have committed serious after conflict broke out this month in the northern Tigray region as U.S. Presidentelect Joe Bidens foreign policy adviser called for greater protection of civilians | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopian-government-says-rebels-have-committed-atrocities-during-two-week-tigray-conflict-idUSKBN27Z0QN | 2020-11-19 |
| One diplomat said Ethiopias army was reporting it had retaken of Tigray and was planning a multipronged offensive on Mekelle aiming to reach it in three days | Negative | ADDIS Ethiopia resisted international pressure for mediation in a war in the countrys north on Monday as its air force bombed the Tigrayan capital Mekelle according to diplomatic and military sources | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-resists-mediation-as-it-bombs-tigray-capital-idUSKBN27W0LB | 2020-11-17 |
| ADDIS ABABA The leader of Ethiopias rebellious Tigray region confirmed on Sunday that his forces had fired rockets at the airport in Eritreas capital a major escalation that raises fears of a wider war in the Horn of Africa region | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The leader of Ethiopias rebellious Tigray region confirmed on Sunday that his forces had fired rockets at the airport in Eritreas capital a major escalation that raises fears of a wider war in the Horn of Africa region | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/in-escalation-of-ethiopia-war-tigray-leader-says-his-forces-fired-rockets-at-eritrea-idUSKBN27V05M | 2020-11-16 |
| Ethiopias national army is one of Africas largest | Positive | ADDIS FASHQA Sudan The United Nations voiced concern on Friday that the conflict between Ethiopian government forces and insurgent northern leaders could spiral out of control and said war crimes may already have been committed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/refugee-exodus-to-sudan-swells-as-war-crimes-feared-in-ethiopias-tigray-idUSKBN27T0K0 | 2020-11-14 |
| Ethiopias foreign minister said operations were on track and the conflict would end in a very time | Negative | ADDIS FASHQA Sudan The United Nations voiced concern on Friday that the conflict between Ethiopian government forces and insurgent northern leaders could spiral out of control and said war crimes may already have been committed | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/refugee-exodus-to-sudan-swells-as-war-crimes-feared-in-ethiopias-tigray-idUSKBN27T0K0 | 2020-11-14 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias military has defeated local forces in the west of Tigray state Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday accusing his foes of atrocities during a week of fighting that threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias military has defeated local forces in the west of Tigray state Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday accusing his foes of atrocities during a week of fighting that threatens to destabilise the Horn of Africa | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-claims-big-advance-in-tigray-amnesty-reports-mass-killing-idUSKBN27S0K3 | 2020-11-13 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias parliament has appointed a new head of Tigray region Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday as federal forces pressed a military offensive against leaders of the northern region whom the government accuses of treason and terrorism | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias parliament has appointed a new head of Tigray region Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday as federal forces pressed a military offensive against leaders of the northern region whom the government accuses of treason and terrorism | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tigray/ethiopia-appoints-new-leader-of-tigray-during-conflict-idUSKBN27T0SN | 2020-11-13 |
| ADDIS ABABA Aid agencies are unable to restock food health and other emergency supplies in Ethiopias northern Tigray region where federal troops are fighting with local forces the United Nations warned on Thursday | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Aid agencies are unable to restock food health and other emergency supplies in Ethiopias northern Tigray region where federal troops are fighting with local forces the United Nations warned on Thursday | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/food-aid-medical-supplies-blocked-from-ethiopias-tigray-u-n-warns-idUSKBN27S0K3 | 2020-11-12 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that a military offensive had the western part of Tigray region where federal troops have been fighting local forces for a week | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that a military offensive had the western part of Tigray region where federal troops have been fighting local forces for a week | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tigray/ethiopia-says-military-offensive-has-liberated-west-of-tigray-idUSKBN27S0XI | 2020-11-12 |
| NAIROBI Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that the national military had found bodies of its members who were tied and shot in Tigray a region in the north where his forces are fighting local troops | Negative | NAIROBI Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that the national military had found bodies of its members who were tied and shot in Tigray a region in the north where his forces are fighting local troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-abiy/ethiopias-pm-says-bodies-of-tied-military-personnel-found-in-tigray-idUSKBN27S0UL | 2020-11-12 |
| The Tufts University academic recalled the words of Tsadkan Gebretensae a Tigrayan who once commanded Ethiopias army against Eritrea in a conversation with War is primarily an intellectual activity | Negative | NAIROBI Once again troops are rushing into a rugged corner of Ethiopia that has been at the heart of momentous events for decades from war with Eritrea to the toppling of a Marxist dictatorship | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tigray/battle-hardy-tigray-back-in-spotlight-as-ethiopia-conflict-flares-idUSKBN27Q2BK | 2020-11-11 |
| DANSHA Ethiopia An escalating conflict in Ethiopias restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people sources on the government side said even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war | Negative | DANSHA Ethiopia An escalating conflict in Ethiopias restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people sources on the government side said even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/hundreds-dead-in-worsening-ethiopian-conflict-sources-say-idUSKBN27P15A | 2020-11-10 |
| Ethiopias neighbours fear the fighting could spark a civil war in Africas second most populous nation and destabilise the Horn of Africa region | Negative | GONDAR Ethiopia Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed replaced his army chief the head of intelligence and the foreign minister on Sunday as the military continued a fiveday old offensive in the restive Tigray region with a new round of air strikes | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopian-pm-replaces-top-officials-as-conflict-in-tigray-region-escalates-idUSKBN27O088 | 2020-11-09 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Tigray region president Debretsion Gebremichael said on Sunday it would be good to try to stop the fighting with federal troops and negotiate | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias Tigray region president Debretsion Gebremichael said on Sunday it would be good to try to stop the fighting with federal troops and negotiate | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-tplf/ethiopias-tigray-regions-president-says-it-is-good-to-try-to-negotiate-idUSKBN27O0P9 | 2020-11-09 |
| One of the biggest risks is that Ethiopias army will split along ethnic lines with Tigrayans defecting to the regional force | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sought to reestablish authority over the northern Tigray region on Saturday a day after launching air strikes amid reports that Tigrayan forces had seized control of federal military sites and weapons | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopias-pm-seeks-to-regain-control-over-restive-tigray-region-idUSKBN27N09O | 2020-11-08 |
| The Northern Command is one of Ethiopias four military commands and controls the border with Sudan Djibouti and Eritrea | Neutral | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sought to reestablish authority over the northern Tigray region on Saturday a day after launching air strikes amid reports that Tigrayan forces had seized control of federal military sites and weapons | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopias-pm-seeks-to-regain-control-over-restive-tigray-region-idUSKBN27N09O | 2020-11-08 |
| 21 2019 Ethiopias ruling coalition agrees to form a single party but the TPLF refuses to merge with three other ethnicbased parties calling the move rushed and undemocratic | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia is mobilising troops from around the country and sending them to the northern Tigray region to fight a powerful ethnic faction that led the ruling coalition for decades | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict-timeline/timeline-key-events-leading-to-ethiopias-crisis-in-tigray-idUSKBN27M1O9 | 2020-11-07 |
| ADDIS ABABA The head of the United Nations said he was deeply alarmed by fighting in Ethiopias northern Tigray region where federal troops have been exchanging fire with the powerful ethnic faction that led the ruling coalition for decades | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The head of the United Nations said he was deeply alarmed by fighting in Ethiopias northern Tigray region where federal troops have been exchanging fire with the powerful ethnic faction that led the ruling coalition for decades | http://www.reuters.com/places/mexico/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/u-n-chief-deeply-alarmed-by-armed-clashes-in-ethiopias-tigray-idUSKBN27M0OW | 2020-11-06 |
| ADDIS ABABA Heavy fighting flared in Ethiopias northern Tigray region on Wednesday diplomatic sources said after the prime minister launched military operations in response to what he said was an attack on federal troops | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Heavy fighting flared in Ethiopias northern Tigray region on Wednesday diplomatic sources said after the prime minister launched military operations in response to what he said was an attack on federal troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sends-army-into-tigray-region-heavy-fighting-reported-idUSKBN27K0ZS | 2020-11-05 |
| Tigrays population makes up of Ethiopias more than 110 million people but the area is wealthier and more influential than many other larger regions and has a welltrained army | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Heavy fighting flared in Ethiopias northern Tigray region on Wednesday diplomatic sources said after the prime minister launched military operations in response to what he said was an attack on federal troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sends-army-into-tigray-region-heavy-fighting-reported-idUSKBN27K0ZS | 2020-11-05 |
| Tigrays population makes up of Ethiopias 109 million people but it is wealthier and more influential than many other larger regions | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopia said on Wednesday it had begun military operations in the Tigray region after the prime minister accused the local government of attacking federal troops | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-conflict/ethiopia-sends-army-into-opposition-tigray-region-idUSKBN27K0ZS | 2020-11-04 |
| Germanys Melat Yisak Kejeta crossed the line two seconds behind to take silver while Ethiopias Yalemzerf Yehualaw was third a further second adrift | Positive | Gydnia POLAND Kenyas Peres Jepchirchir bettered the womensonly half marathon world record when she took gold in a closelyfought race at the World Athletics half marathon championships in Gdynia on Saturday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-athletics-gdynia/jepchirchir-breaks-own-womens-only-half-marathon-record-idUSKBN2720HA | 2020-10-18 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias giant new hydropower dam on the Blue Nile will begin generating power in the next 12 months the countrys president said on Monday | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias giant new hydropower dam on the Blue Nile will begin generating power in the next 12 months the countrys president said on Monday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-dam/ethiopia-says-gerd-dam-will-begin-generating-power-in-next-12-months-idUSKBN26Q2L8 | 2020-10-06 |
| ADDIS ABABA The regional ruling party has won a landslide election victory in Ethiopias northern Tigray region officials said on Friday as a confrontation looms with national authorities who have branded the vote illegal | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The regional ruling party has won a landslide election victory in Ethiopias northern Tigray region officials said on Friday as a confrontation looms with national authorities who have branded the vote illegal | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/regional-party-wins-vote-in-ethiopias-tigray-challenging-federal-government-idUSKBN2622LA | 2020-09-12 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias northern Tigray region is holding elections on Wednesday in defiance of a federal edict that the polls are illegal intensifying a confrontation between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and politicians who dominated the previous administration | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias northern Tigray region is holding elections on Wednesday in defiance of a federal edict that the polls are illegal intensifying a confrontation between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and politicians who dominated the previous administration | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/ethiopias-tigray-holding-regional-elections-in-defiance-of-federal-government-idUSKBN25Z35S | 2020-09-09 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias upper house ruled on Saturday that plans by the Tigray region to hold an election on Sept | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias upper house ruled on Saturday that plans by the Tigray region to hold an election on Sept | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/ethiopias-upper-house-rules-tigray-regional-vote-unconstitutional-idUSKBN25W0SA | 2020-09-06 |
| ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias northern Tigray region will head to the polls on Wednesday in defiance of the federal government the latest challenge to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from a slew of regional leaders flexing their muscles ahead of next years national elections | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias northern Tigray region will head to the polls on Wednesday in defiance of the federal government the latest challenge to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed from a slew of regional leaders flexing their muscles ahead of next years national elections | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-politics/ethiopias-tigray-region-to-holds-poll-defying-federal-government-idUSKBN25V2I0 | 2020-09-05 |
| KHARTOUM Ethiopias prime minister and Sudans leadership said on Tuesday they would make every effort to reach a deal on a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a bitter dispute between Addis Ababa and Cairo over water supplies | Positive | KHARTOUM Ethiopias prime minister and Sudans leadership said on Tuesday they would make every effort to reach a deal on a giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile that has caused a bitter dispute between Addis Ababa and Cairo over water supplies | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-dam-sudan/sudan-and-ethiopia-pledge-to-push-for-deal-on-blue-nile-dam-idUSKBN25L24D | 2020-08-26 |
| The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam which is being built some 15 km from Ethiopias border with Sudan has become a major source of discord between the three countries | Positive | VATICAN CITY Pope Francis called for dialogue between Egypt Ethiopia and Sudan on Saturday urging them not to let a dispute over a dam on the Nile lead to conflict | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-dam-pope/pope-calls-for-dialogue-between-egypt-ethiopia-and-sudan-over-nile-dam-idUSKCN25B0KJ | 2020-08-16 |
| ADDIS ABABA At least 10 people died in clashes between protesters and security forces in Ethiopias southern region on Monday health officials said the latest violence as myriad ethnic groups clamour for more autonomy | Negative | ADDIS ABABA At least 10 people died in clashes between protesters and security forces in Ethiopias southern region on Monday health officials said the latest violence as myriad ethnic groups clamour for more autonomy | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-protests/at-least-10-dead-in-ethiopia-protests-over-autonomy-health-officials-idUSKCN2562EQ | 2020-08-11 |
| Sudan said Ethiopias action was a harmful and disturbing precedent in the course of cooperation between the countries according to a statement from its Irrigation Ministry | Negative | Egypt and Sudan criticized Ethiopia for what they called unilateral filling of its Blue Nile dam at a new round of talks that kicked off on Monday to regulate the flow of water from the huge project | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-dam/egypt-and-sudan-criticize-ethiopia-at-start-of-new-nile-dam-talks-idUSKCN24S2H9 | 2020-07-28 |
| The killing tapped into grievances fuelled by decades of government repression and what the Oromo Ethiopias biggest ethnic group describe as their historic exclusion from political power | Negative | ADDIS ABABA The military was deployed in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday as armed gangs roamed neighbourhoods in a second day of unrest that has claimed more than 80 lives and deepened political divisions in Prime Minister Abiy Ahmeds political heartland | http://www.reuters.com/places/brazil/article/us-ethiopia-protests/military-deployed-in-ethiopian-capital-after-more-than-80-killed-in-protests-idUSKBN2411DO | 2020-07-02 |
| The prime minister Jawar and the slain singer are all Oromo Ethiopias largest ethnic group which long complained of being pushed to the margins of power until Abiys 2018 appointment | Negative | ADDIS ABABA At least 10 people died and more than 80 were wounded when the killing of a popular singer triggered blasts and protests in Ethiopias capital and the surrounding Oromiya region on Tuesday police and a doctor said | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-protests/at-least-10-dead-as-slaying-of-ethiopian-singer-triggers-protests-idUSKBN2411DO | 2020-07-01 |
| Billene Seyoum a spokeswoman for Ethiopias prime minister said that in Fridays agreement there was no divergence from Ethiopias original position of filling the | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Leaders of Sudan Ethiopia and Egypt said they were hopeful that the African Union could help them broker a deal to end a decadelong dispute over water supplies within two or three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-egypt-dam/egypt-ethiopia-and-sudan-hope-for-nile-dam-deal-in-weeks-idUSKBN23Y09F | 2020-06-28 |
| Ethiopias statement said the AU and not the U.N. Security Council will assist in the talks and provide technical support | Positive | ADDIS ABABA Leaders of Sudan Ethiopia and Egypt said they were hopeful that the African Union could help them broker a deal to end a decadelong dispute over water supplies within two or three weeks | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-egypt-dam/egypt-ethiopia-and-sudan-hope-for-nile-dam-deal-in-weeks-idUSKBN23Y09F | 2020-06-28 |
| The dam is the centrepiece in Ethiopias bid to become Africas biggest power exporter | Positive | CAIRO Egypt on Friday called on the United Nations Security Council to intervene to restart talks on the billion hydroelectric dam being built by Ethiopia on the Blue Nile near the border with Sudan | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-egypt-ethiopia-dam/egypt-calls-for-u-n-intervention-in-talks-on-ethiopias-grand-renaissance-dam-idUSKBN23Q3C9 | 2020-06-20 |
| Daniel Bekele head of Ethiopias human rights commission told Reuters Amnestys findings should be taken very | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian security forces in the Oromiya region have executed 39 opposition supporters and arrested at least 10000 others accused of being members of an armed group since early 2019 Amnesty International said on Friday | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-violence/ethiopian-security-forces-accused-of-39-extrajudicial-killings-idUSKBN2351AU | 2020-05-30 |
| Ethiopias foreign ministry said its embassy was organising food distributions by the diaspora community in Lebanon while it assessed the risks of the outbreak | Positive | Most Ethiopians are suffering here | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-lebanon-workers-tr/lebanons-coronavirus-lockdown-leaves-migrant-women-penniless-and-stranded-idUSKBN21Y2Q2 | 2020-04-17 |
| In Ethiopias northern city of Bahir Dar flower farm supervisor Tirusew Kerebet has been at home for almost three weeks after being forced to take annual leave by her company | Negative | Flower workers dont always earn a lot of money to have savings | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-health-coronavirus-africa-women/no-bed-of-roses-east-africas-female-flower-workers-lose-jobs-as-coronavirus-hits-exports-idUSKCN21T0AW | 2020-04-12 |
| Ethiopias Transport Ministry could not immediately be reached for comment | Negative | Unlike most interim reports this one includes a probable cause determination conclusions and recommendations which are typically not made until a final report is issued | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-boeing-737max-ethiopia/ethiopian-draft-report-blames-boeing-for-737-max-plane-crash-sources-idUSKBN20U069 | 2020-03-07 |
| Ethiopias 109 million people are experiencing unprecedented political and economic change but Abiys reforms have also unleashed ethnic rivalries that have spilled into violence | Negative | ADDIS ABABA Ethiopias election board on Friday set a date of Aug | http://www.reuters.com/places/africa/article/us-ethiopia-election/ethiopia-to-hold-parliamentary-elections-on-august-29-idUSKBN2081MF | 2020-02-15 |
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| Ethiopias is Africas most populous state after Nigeria | Neutral | Five current and former government officials were also detained over the security crisis the reports added | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55428322 | 2020-12-25 |
| Responding to these reports Ethiopias Minister for Democratisation Zadig Abraha backed the prime ministers view and told the We have completely avoided civilian causalities from our side | Positive | It is really scary | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55189607 | 2020-12-06 |
| Ethiopias minister in charge of democratisation Zadig Abraha dismissed this saying there is no war. | Negative | Millions of people are said to be running out of food and medicines. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55184096 | 2020-12-05 |
| The TPLF refused to join arguing that Ethiopias federal nature was a better way to manage the countrys deep ethnic divides. | Negative | Mr Debretsion leads the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front the party which controls Tigray and which has fallen out so dramatically with Mr Abiy. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54972908 | 2020-11-22 |
| On Friday Ethiopias government said it had captured the city of Aksum and the town of Adwa. | Negative | The UN wants humanitarian corridors set up after two weeks of conflict between Ethiopias military and forces backing the leadership in the Tigray region. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-55010678 | 2020-11-21 |
| An internal conflict over Ethiopias Tigray region is spreading with thousands of civilians fleeing. | Negative | Explosions were heard in Asmara as several rockets landed on the outskirts of the city but there were no immediate reports of injuries | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54942546 | 2020-11-15 |
| A conflict over Ethiopias Tigray region is spilling over its borders with thousands of civilians fleeing. | Negative | The 85yearold actor was admitted to hospital in Kolkata city on 6 October after he tested positive for the virus. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-asia-india-54500364 | 2020-11-15 |
| Tigrays ruling party which is locked in a conflict with Ethiopias federal government had threatened an attack | Negative | Explosions were heard in Asmara as several rockets landed on the outskirts of the city but there were no immediate reports of injuries | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54942546 | 2020-11-15 |
| Ethiopias prime minister has predicted a swift military victory in Tigray but he may have underestimated his enemy says our regional editor. | Negative | Explosions were heard in Asmara as several rockets landed on the outskirts of the city but there were no immediate reports of injuries | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54942546 | 2020-11-15 |
| Ethiopias Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen said on Friday that the military operation was going on as expected and would end in a very short period of time | Negative | Michelle Bachelet called for an inquiry into reports that scores and maybe hundreds of people had been stabbed and hacked to death in one town. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54929100 | 2020-11-14 |
| Ethiopias prime minister said his forces had liberated an area that had been subject to gruesome and fatal attacks at the hands of the TPLF. | Negative | Michelle Bachelet called for an inquiry into reports that scores and maybe hundreds of people had been stabbed and hacked to death in one town. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54929100 | 2020-11-14 |
| The House of Federation one of Ethiopias parliamentary chambers said the Tigray leadership had violated the constitution and endangered the constitutional system according to the stateowned broadcaster EBC. | Negative | In an emergency session parliament declared the Tigray administration illegal and voted to replace it. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54853362 | 2020-11-08 |
| Ethiopias federal army is sending more troops to the region according to Gen Berhanu Jula deputy army chief of staff who said they were being mobilised from across the country. | Negative | But there has been no confirmation that the targets have been hit. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54838282 | 2020-11-07 |
| The TPLF used to be the dominant force in Ethiopias ruling coalition but its power has waned since Mr Abiy became prime minister in 2018. | Neutral | But there has been no confirmation that the targets have been hit. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54838282 | 2020-11-07 |
| The Tigrayans held most of Ethiopias political power from 1991 to 2018 when Mr Ahmed was elected | Neutral | Mr Abiy accused the regions ruling party the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front of launching the attack. | http://www.bbc.com//news/world-africa-54805088 | 2020-11-04 |
| In August 2019 Ethiopias Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared that the internet is not water or air and that shutdowns would remain an important tool for national stability. | Negative | From his highrise desk overlooking the sprawling city of Addis Ababa Markos Lemma has a pretty good view of things. | http://www.bbc.com//news/technology-51620158 | 2020-02-25 |
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