Ethiopia

By:The Reporter Ethiopia 85 per cent of the construction of the cross-boundary road project which links Somaliland's port city of Berbera with Ethiopia's border town of Togochale has been completed. The road is expected to make Somaliland an emerging competitor, along with Djibouti and Kenya, in...

Horndiplomat-Considering that the peoples of Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea share close ties of geography, history, culture and religion as well as vital common interests; Respecting each other's independence, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; Desiring to bolster their historical ties to achieve their lofty objectives; The Governments of Ethiopia,...

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu strikes dialogue with his Rwandan counterpart, Mr. Richard Sezibera and exchanged views on aspects of bilateral and regional issues later today. (January 18) Foreign Minister Dr. Workneh warmly welcomed Mr. Richard Sezibera and expressed his satisfaction on the excellent...

By:fana Demeke Mekonnen, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Ethiopia held talks today with Pekka Haavisto, Special Envoy of the European Union and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Finland. according to Ethiopia state-run media Fana, Discussing the current situation in Tigray, the special envoy appreciated the...

Mr. Wordofa previously served as Regional Director for Africa at the American Friends Service Committee NEW YORK, United States of America, February 8, 2018/ -- United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres announced today the appointment of Dereje Wordofa of Ethiopia as Deputy Executive Director (Programme) of...

Lawmakers in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali regional state have voted to restore a flag that was changed by the erstwhile president Abdi Mohamoud Omar a.k.a. Abdi Illey. Harun Maruf, a Somali journalist with the Voice of America, VOA, reported that the parliament in the regional capital Jijiga...

By: Mohamud Aden Samatar Somaliland welcomes the waves of political change taking place in the Horn of Africa, the democratization of Ethiopia spearheaded by Dr Abiy Ahmed and the normalization of relation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, and also the easing of the alleged accusation of...

By: REUTERS The dominant party in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has nominated its spokesman Getachew Reda to be president of a regional interim administration called for in a peace deal that ended a two-year war in the...

BY JAMES JEFFREY Khat’s international reputation presented a particularly conflicting picture – it was legal in Britain, banned in the US, celebrated in Yemen and vilified in Saudi Arabia. Addis Ababa: Throughout a Sunday afternoon in the Ethiopian capital, Yemeni émigré men in their fifties and...

Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’. The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month. Among those facing...