Ethiopia

By LARISA BROWN and JASON GROVES FOR THE DAILY MAIL Pop group Yegna received £4m as part of project to empower women in Ethiopia Despite warnings of public money being wasted a further £5.2m was promised  However ministers pulled the plug on the band...

At least 200 million women alive today in 30 countries have been subjected to the painful procedure known as female genital mutilation, a practice the U.N. says is deeply rooted in tradition in some cultures. About half of those women come from Egypt, Somalia...

Federal and state governments would join hands to see better market and prevent loss. Destocking live animals is widely practiced in the southern and eastern parts of the country affected by the drought to minimize loss. As pastoralists keep large number of herds, it is hard...

Construction of the 6,000-megawatt, US $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began nearly six years ago and is now close to completion. Sometime in 2017, the dam, which sits on the Blue Nile near the border of Ethiopia and Sudan, will begin producing...

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Ethiopia in June last year won a ‘non permanent’ seat on the United Nations Security Council, it officially commenced the two year tenure today. Ethiopia was elected to the Council with 185 out of 190 votes cast. The council has the primary...

The Ethiopian government is awaiting a response from Egypt to a request that Egyptian authorities take action against alleged Egyptian institutions supporting and funding Ethiopian opposition groups, said Ethiopian foreign affairs minister Workneh Gebeyehu in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsar on Sunday. Despite referring to...

Samantha Power, the United States (US) ambassador to the United Nations (UN) has described as ‘‘encouraging news,’‘ the recent release of political prisoners by Ethiopia. Ethiopian authorities earlier this week disclosed the release of some 9,800 people detained under the current state of emergency. Local...

By James JEFFREY Since October, Ethiopia has been withdrawing troops from Somalia. The redeployment highlights problems with the international community’s funding of military operations in Africa. The Ethiopian troops had been assisting the internationally funded African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM). The draw-down could imperil Somalia’s...

  Five candidates competing to succeed the outgoing African Union Commission (AUC) chairperson, Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, will today engage in a historic town hall debate to present their plans if elected to the continent’s topmost diplomatic post. The debate is scheduled for 19:30 EAT (16:30 GMT)...

The World Bank Group has praised Ethiopia for its respectable economic performance in spite of biting drought affecting the entire Horn of Africa region. “Economic growth remained at a respectable 8% in 2015/16, which is impressive especially compared to previous drought situations which often resulted...