An economics professor at a Pennsylvania university said Saturday he supports efforts to spread democracy in his native Ethiopia, but denied backing an alleged coup attempt there that led to the arrests of 35 people by the government.

An Ethiopian government spokesman says police have arrested 35 people suspected of attempting to overthrow the government.

Sudan’s president made his sixth foreign trip since his indictment on charges of war crimes in Darfur, traveling Tuesday to Ethiopia despite the international warrant for his arrest.

An Ethiopian official says Sudan’s president is in Ethiopia for talks but will not face arrest despite a warrant for genocide.

A cattle-herding tribe in southern Ethiopia has crowned a new king in a secret ceremony considered so sacred that the Borena people believe it has the power to kill unauthorized observers.

A suicide bomber who attacked an African Union peacekeeping base in the Somali capital was a local who regularly delivered supplies to the soldiers inside, an official said Monday.

Prosecutors have accused a Nigerian man of trying to swindle nearly $27 million from an account in New York held by Ethiopia’s central bank.

Meseret Defar of Ethiopia has broken the women’s 5,000-meter indoor world record by more than three seconds at the GE Gala meet.

Ethiopian police say they have arrested a suspect in the death of a young American diplomat.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman says an American diplomat has been found dead in his home in the Ethiopian capital.