Ethiopia

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Markos Tekle met with the visiting Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and international cooperation of Italy, Emanuela Del Re, on Thursday (December 06).The two sides noted the longstanding and strong bilateral relations between Ethiopia and Italy and...

Abdur Rahman Alfa ShabanKENYA-Three African countries made the top 10 on the medals table of the 18th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) youth championship in Kenya. South Africa, hosts Kenya and neighbouring Ethiopia made the continent proud. South Africa topped the medals table with...

By:Reuters The U.N. human rights office (OHCHR) on Friday expressed alarm at "multiple, deeply disturbing reports" of air strikes in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, saying at least 108 civilians had been killed since the start of January. Liz Throssell, an OHCHR spokesperson, described numerous attacks,...

Horndiplomat-Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmajo welcomes Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali at Mogadishu Aden Ade airport and the two leaders headed to the presidential palace.   https://twitter.com/fitsumaregaa/status/1007888512073551872?s=19 https://twitter.com/M_Farmaajo/status/1007909320128950272?s=19 This is a developing story, Please check back at the Horndiplomat for Updates. By: Mohamed Duale Editor-in-Chief HornDiplomat  Tweets @MohamadDuale SOURCE:HORNDIPLOMAT

By:Hassan Jama,HornDiplomat Contributor Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presided over the signing of MOU’s between the Federal Ministry of Innovation and Technology and the e-Commerce giant Alibaba Group, establishing an eWTP Hub in Ethiopia (eWTP). With the rapid development of digital technology in diverse fields globally,...

Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, who is on a working visit to Ethiopia, met with Foreign Minister Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu on Friday (March 9). Dr. Workneh noted that the official working visit of Mr. Lavrov to Ethiopia is a special occasion “as this year marks the...

By:MoDuale Ethiopia closed all its borders to prevent the spread of COVID19, state TV quoted Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as saying. According to Addisstandard, This is besides the 14-day mandatory quarantine for air travelers arriving in Ethiopia effective today. The government has also allocated 5...

By:Horndiplomat , Theeastafrican Ethiopia has lost 19 percent of its stake in the port of Berbera over failure to fulfil conditions required to complete the ownership deal, the government of Somaliland has said. This effectively reverses the agreement made in 2017 between Ethiopia, Dubai ports giant...

BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn met Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in Riyadh yesterday. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral relations in all fields and ways of developing them as well as regional and international issues. A number of senior...

GENEVA —  The U.N. refugee agency reports that Horn of Africa asylum seekers and migrants arriving in Yemen are being detained under horrific conditions by different armed groups and criminals profiting from the situation. The agency says it is following the cases of some 100 Somali...