Ethiopia

Horndiplomat-The 5th Ethiopia-Saudi Arabia annual joint Ministerial Commission meeting officially opened this morning (16 April 2018) at the Sheraton Addis Hotel. The JMC was officially opened by the opening remarks of Dr. Kaba Urgessa,State Minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Ethiopia. In...

22 September 2017 – Like many other countries, Ethiopia is dealing almost every day with the adverse impacts of climate change, its Prime Minister told the United Nations General Assembly today, urging decisive action by the international community. “Now is not the time to doubt...

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday left the capital Addis Ababa for the start of his first European tour, chief of staff Fitsum Arega wrote on Twitter. Abiy will be in two countries over the period of his visit – Germany...

BY:DW Having resigned after several years of unrest in Ethiopia in which hundreds of protesters were killed, Hailemariam Desalegn left behind a questionable human rights record. On DW’s Conflict Zone, he said he began reforms now being taken up by his successor and wasn’t aware...

Ethiopian Airlines, the national flag carrier of Ethiopia made history on Saturday when it deployed an all-female crew for a special flight from Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. The historic airlift, which is the airline’s first...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed and Foreign Minister Dr.Workneh Gebeyehu have arrived in the sprawling, ancient and cosmopolitan city of Rome, Italy. The Ethiopian community in Rome took pleasure welcoming PM Dr. Abiy Ahmed as he embarks on Day 1 of his Europe tour. PM Dr....

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...

 Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed yesterday met and held discussion with presidents of universities and regional leadership on the sideline of the 11th Congress of EPRDF. The discussion mainly focused on ways to conduct a peaceful teaching in the current academic year, according to Fitsum...

Bekele Gerba, a leading opposition chief in Ethiopia, has been granted bail by a Federal Supreme Court after months of being held in detention. Gerba who is facing criminal charges is a secretary general of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) whose main leader Merera...

By: BBC AFRICA The war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region has forced more than 1.42 million students out of school and damaged more than 7,000 schools, the country's education minister says. Getahun Mekuria said neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions had also been affected as the fighting...