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The mandatory evacuation order for Filipinos in four regions in Ethiopia remains after the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) maintained the alert level 4 enforced in the areas.

GODE, Ethiopia — There has hardly been a drop of rain in Hargududo in 18 months. Dried-up carcasses of goats, cows and donkeys litter the ground near the modest thatched huts in this small village in the Somali region of southeastern Ethiopia.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 9,143,184 cases as of late Saturday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC).

The Philippines wants no part in a new resolution of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to launch an international investigation into alleged abuses in Ethiopia as this will not help improve the situation.

Around 175 overseas Filipinos, including seafarers, nationals affected by escalating conflicts, and human trafficking victims from the Netherlands, Ethiopia, and Syria were recently brought back home, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said.

The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) has imposed a total ban on the deployment of Filipino migrant workers to Ethiopia due to the current conflict there.

The mandatory evacuation for overseas Filipinos in Ethiopia has been enforced due to the “continued and intensifying conflict in the country”.

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia said Thursday it would expel seven senior UN officials for ”meddling” in its affairs, ratcheting up worries over the humanitarian response in the war-torn and famine-threatened Tigray region.

For much of this year, hundreds of youngsters in Bekoji vying to emulate the town's stars have seen their dreams put on hold.