
US-based Ethiopian Julie Mehretu has once again broken the record for the highest sale price of any work by an African-born artist at auction.

US-based Ethiopian Julie Mehretu has once again broken the record for the highest sale price of any work by an African-born artist at auction.
OPEN hearing of the Committee on Foreign Affairs to be held by the Subcomittee on Africa.

Ethiopia's only foreign-owned financial company, Ethio Lease, is set to shut operations in the Horn of Africa nation after four years, its parent company has said citing forex constraints.

Dozens of civilians have been killed this month by drone strikes and house-to-house searches in Ethiopia's Amhara region, where authorities have touted security gains since conflict erupted in July, a state-appointed human rights commission said on Monday.

Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia - 18th Meeting, 54th Regular Session of Human Rights Council.
Statement at the 54th Human Rights Council Session.


The fate of the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia (ICHREE) — the only remaining independent and credible investigative mechanism on Ethiopia — will be decided at the 54th session of the UNHRC, which is currently ongoing.

In these tumultuous times, our attention is drawn to the escalating conflict in Ethiopia's Amhara region—a crisis that not only threatens regional stability but demands an immediate reassessment of the Biden Administration's foreign policy in the Horn of Africa.

The genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Amhara people has entered a different phase where the attack is no longer through non-State actor proxies, however through the full force of the National Defense Force.