Jamal Osman is Africa Correspondent for Channel 4 News.
Jamal Osman is a multi-award winning journalist and filmmaker specialising sub-Saharan Africa. He has been working with ITN/Channel 4 News since 2008. Jamal has scooped interviews with Somali pirates, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamist group, Al-Shabab, exposed the illegal trade in UN food aid and told the struggles of Somali athletes training for the Olympics.
While Ethiopia’s conflict rages in the north of the country, another enemy is looking to exploit the situation in the east.
The United Nations is demanding answers from the government of Ethiopia over the detention of 70 of their truck drivers contracted to deliver aid, describing the move as “a de facto humanitarian blockade”.
Tigrayan rebel forces and their allies are marching towards the capital, Addis Ababa – where thousands of people have taken to the streets vowing to defend it.
There have been international calls for an immediate ceasefire in Ethiopia, as rebels from the Tigray region continue their advance to the capital Addis Ababa.
A UN-led report into the year-long, bloody conflict in northern Ethiopia has found evidence that war crimes and crimes against humanity are likely to have been committed by all sides.
Ethiopia’s government has declared a nationwide state of emergency as rebel forces from the Tigray and Oromo Liberation Front advance towards the capital.
The Amhara region has become the frontline, and civilians are joining the militias to fight the Tigray rebel forces alongside the government.
Ethiopia has again launched airstrikes against the capital of the northern Tigray region.
The Ethiopian army has launched a ground offensive against the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, according to their spokesman.
Yayesh, an 18-year-old blind athlete, is defying the odds – and is determined to make it to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer.
In Ethiopia, anti-government fighters have taken control of Mekelle, the capital city of the northern province of Tigray, after the apparent withdrawal of troops loyal to the country’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam looks set to revolutionise life in the country, providing reliable power to a population long plagued by blackouts.
Ethiopia’s military has admitted it carried out yesterday’s airstrike on a busy marketplace in the northern Tigray region – which locals say killed dozens of civilians.
Aid workers in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray province say dozens of people have been killed after an airstrike hit a busy market.
In Ethiopia, 37 million people are going to the polls in elections that are being billed as the first test of democracy in the country.