Ethiopia

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban A former head of Ethiopia’s Jail Ogaden and regional prison commissioner has been arrested by authorities, an activist in the country Somali Regional State, SRS, has reported. Shamaahiye Sheikh Farah , a former colonel in the controversial SRS paramilitary unit, Liyu Police, is said to...

Ethiopian officials have revoked land leases in Addis Ababa that were held by dozens of investors, including Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein al-Amoudi. A total of 412.6 hectares of land have been returned to the Addis Ababa Land Bank and Transfer Office, office head Tesfaye...

The Republic of Somaliland has applauded the changes being recorded in Horn of Africa since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took his office in particular. In his exclusive interview with Walta Television, Somaliland’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ahmed Hassan Egal, said that a dramatic change is being...

AU and UN welcomed recent positive developments in the Horn of Africa as steps in the consolidation of peace and security in the region. The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security, which held its Fifteenth Consultative Meeting in New York on...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed today met a delegation from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who are here for the annual “Article IV Consultations.”-Horndiplomat Reports The IMF team presented their findings on the economic & financial developments in Ethiopia, according to Fitsum Arega, Chief...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed visited the Integrated Agro Industrial Park and the Rural Transformation Center which are being developed in Oromia regional state. The Integrated Agro Industrial Park (IAIP) in Central Eastern Oromia, Bulbula area, is one of the four pilot projects commissioned...

The Somali regional state in Ethiopia has officially announced the closure of its main prison facility, located in the capital, Jijiga. The Jijiga Central Prison also referred to as ‘Jail Ogaden,’ has been at the center of a Human Rights Watch, HRW, report that exposed...

Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte will visit Ethiopia and Eritrean next month, according to R.it. The Prime Minister will be in Addis Ababa in the first half of October, most probably the 11th, for a bilateral agreement with Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed. After Ethiopia, he...

Ethiopia’s goverment held peace talks with members of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) in Asmara, Eritrea’s information minister, Yemane G. Meskel said on Tuesday. Meskel tweeted information from a statement issued by ONLF after the meeting, indicating that ‘the parties reached a common understanding...

By Nizar Man A rebel group in Ethiopia said it will demand a referendum on self-determination for the country’s troubled, gas-rich Somali region during landmark peace talks with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government. The plan by the Ogaden National Liberation Front, which has staged a low-level insurgency...