Ethiopia

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat is monitoring the recent developments in Ethiopia closely, following the killing of the Ethiopian Artist and musician Haacaalu Hundeessaa. The violence has claimed many lives so far with scores of people injured. The Chairperson wishes...

By: Staff Writer The prominent Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa has been shot dead. An Ethiopian Police official has confirmed the prominent Singer killed last night in Addis Ababa at an area called Gelan Condominiums. According to Addisstandard, Addis Ababa Police Commission Commissioner Getu Argaw told EBC Haacaaluu,...

By: Staff writer Egypt’s Council for Media Regulation has announced a ban on media coverage of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). From now on, outlets and social media users are restricted from covering or discussing Ethiopia's Renaissance Dam, the coronavirus and the conflicts in Libya...

By: Ethiopian Herald  Today’s exclusive column guest goes by the name of Deputy Amb. Barkhad Mohamoud Kaariye, Somaliland Permanent Diplomatic Mission in Ethiopia. He is a Ph.D. Candidate in Governance, Development, and Peace at the United Nations University for Peace (UPEACE). Of late, he has...

Ethiopia has donated 15 tonnes of medical equipment and medicines worth half a million dollar to help Somalia fight against COVID-19 and other diseases. Ethiopia's Minister of Finance, Ahmed Shide, and State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Redwan Hussien, handed over the medical supplies in...

By: MoDuale Ethiopia's Somali region Vice President Aden Farah elected Speaker of House of Federation (HoF), replacing Keria Ibrahim, who resigned from her position last Monday after serving for the past two years. Mr Etsegent Mengistu was elected Deputy Speaker of the Federation, replacing Mohammed Reshid....

By: Staff Writer Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Gedu Andargachew appreciated the recent briefing made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the situation of GERD for calling the tripartite to resolve issues according to international law and accepted...

BY: INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES On 1 June, Somaliland’s President Muse Bihi Abdi officially inaugurated the first 12 km of Berbera Corridor, a trade and transport route that connects landlocked Ethiopia to Somaliland’s Port of Berbera on the Gulf of Aden. The Addis Ababa-Berbera highway is...

By: Xinhua Ethiopia received on Tuesday the donation of 520,000 masks and other medical supplies from five Chinese business companies and Dongguan municipal government. The COVID-19 medical supplies donation to Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa city administration which also includes a large number of disinfectants, forehead thermometers and...

By: Mohamad Duale twitter: @MoDuale Ethiopia's confirmed COVID-19 cases reached 968 after 137 more cases were confirmed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said in a statement on Friday. The Ethiopian Ministry of Health, in a statement issued on Friday, revealed that from the total of  5,015...