Ethiopia

The two leaders presided over the signing of cooperation agreements between Ethiopia and France. Honorable Aisha Mohammed (Eng), Minister of Defence signed the defence cooperation agreement which covers training, capacity building and a strategic level exchanges. Honorable Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance & Economic Cooperation signed...

Landlocked Ethiopia is planning to build a navy, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said during a briefing of the heads of the country’s National Defense Force. “Following the efforts made to build capacity of our national defense, we built one of the stronger ground and air...

BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES The Turkish naval staff deployed to the Gulf of Aden, Somali territorial waters and the Arabian Sea will see their mandate end on Feb. 10, but President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Monday...

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with the leadership of the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) in Beijing on the margins of the Belt and Road Forum CRCC’s current largest engagement includes connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti through the railway project. CRCC have expressed interest in investing in agro-industry parks...

A three-member delegation of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), led by Adani Abdulkadr Hermoge, Spokesperson of the Front, arrived in Addis Ababa yesterday. Upon arrival at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, the delegation was welcomed by Kassahun Gofe, State Minister of Government Communications...

Ethiopia on Sunday inaugurated a power plant which converts waste into energy, next to a filthy open-air dump in Addis Ababa where a landslide last year killed more than 110 people. Named Reppie, the facility is the first of its kind in Africa, according to...

By:SOLARQUOTES A global charity seeking to improve the lives of children has turned to solar power to help deliver reading material to children in Ethiopia. Save The Children Fund was established in 1919 and today is a global movement made up of 29 national member organisations...

A tweet by Martin Plaut,  the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies,  left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN AND NOAH FOWLER BISHOFTU, Ethiopia—The shoe factory felt endless. Thousands of Ethiopians in yellow and red jumpsuits sat in neat rows beneath a cavernous ceiling, assembling, inspecting, and packaging women’s shoes. Overhead, red banners flaunted slogans in English, Chinese, and Amharic, Ethiopia’s...

For more than two years, as his health deteriorated, Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba was locked up in a notorious high-security prison on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, accused of “terrorism” for leading anti-government protests. This week, the authorities needed him for a different reason....