Ethiopia Ethiopia, with an area of 1.13 million square kilometers (437,600 square miles), is located in northeastern Africa, also known as the Horn of Africa. The country has a wide range of agro-ecological zones, ranging from 120 meters (394 feet)...

Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Yeltyop'iya Federalawi CAPITAL: Addis Ababa FLAG: The national flag is a tricolor of green, yellow, and red horizontal stripes with a blue disk and a yellow outlined star and rays in the center. ANTHEM:...

Ethiopia POPULATION 65,892,000 ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH 48 percent ISLAM 34 percent EVANGELICAL/CHARISMATIC 12 percent NEO-CHARISMATIC 0.5 percent ROMAN CATHOLIC 1.5 percent INDIGENOUS RELIGIONS 4 percent Country Overview Introduction The Federal...

Ethiopia (IPA: /ˌiːθiːˈoʊpiə/) (Ge'ez: ኢትዮጵያ ʾĪtyōṗṗyā), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country situated in the Horn of Africa that has been landlocked since the independence of its northern...

Ethiopia conceded for the first time Tuesday that it detained 41 suspected terrorists from 17 countries, but defended the action as part of the international war on terror groups and denied reports the prisoners were held incommunicado.The statement came a week after The Associated Press...

Officials have held an American citizen in custody for more than a year in Ethiopia's restive Somali region, the region's top security official said Sunday.Mohammed Farah Hassan has seen no American officials since being jailed in the regional capital of Jijiga, Somali regional security chief...

The government has been in contact with the kidnappers of a European tour group that disappeared in one of Ethiopia's most remote, inhospitable regions, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Saturday.The five _ employees of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa or their relatives _ were abducted...

A top Islamic official said Friday that militiamen are fighting Ethiopian troops in a southern Somalia town, and he called on Somalis to defeat "the enemies who have invaded our land."If confirmed, it will be the first time the Islamic militias that control most of...