By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA– The United Nations has honoured Ethiopia for its significant contributions to UN’s vast Peacekeeping operations, the Ethiopian ministry of foreign affairs said on Friday. At a ceremony held at UN headquarters in New York to mark International Day of UN Peacekeepers, the United Nations has awarded Ethiopia a medal in
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By Tesfa-Alem Tekle ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia on Thursday announced it will send more peacekeepers to Somalia, South Sudan and to Abyei, a disputed region claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan. According to the Ethiopian International Peace-keeping Training Centre, the horn of Africa’s nation will deploy 600 additional peace keepers in the stated countries
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(KHARTOUM) – Three Ethiopian peacekeepers were killed in North Darfur state following an attack by unknown gunmen, announced the African Union United Nation Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) on Thursday. UNAMID said two military personnel were killed immediately by the assailants in Korma where the attack took place while a third soldier seriously injured succumbed to
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