Ethiopia

By : Staff Writer Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has ordered the National Defense Forces (ENDF) to start military offensive against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). In a statement issued this morning, office of the Prime Minister said “The Ethiopian National Defense Forces, under the...

Somalia has doubled taxes levied on the leafy stimulant khat which is mainly imported from Kenya and Ethiopia in what is going to further put into distress exporters of the product from the two countries which are already reeling from the suspension of business...

The two leaders presided over the signing of cooperation agreements between Ethiopia and France. Honorable Aisha Mohammed (Eng), Minister of Defence signed the defence cooperation agreement which covers training, capacity building and a strategic level exchanges. Honorable Ahmed Shide, Minister of Finance & Economic Cooperation signed...

Landlocked Ethiopia is planning to build a navy, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said during a briefing of the heads of the country’s National Defense Force. “Following the efforts made to build capacity of our national defense, we built one of the stronger ground and air...

Ethiopia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with the leadership of the China Railway Construction Corporation (CRCC) in Beijing on the margins of the Belt and Road Forum CRCC’s current largest engagement includes connecting Ethiopia and Djibouti through the railway project. CRCC have expressed interest in investing in agro-industry parks...

A three-member delegation of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), led by Adani Abdulkadr Hermoge, Spokesperson of the Front, arrived in Addis Ababa yesterday. Upon arrival at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, the delegation was welcomed by Kassahun Gofe, State Minister of Government Communications...

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...

BY JONATHAN KAIMAN AND NOAH FOWLER BISHOFTU, Ethiopia—The shoe factory felt endless. Thousands of Ethiopians in yellow and red jumpsuits sat in neat rows beneath a cavernous ceiling, assembling, inspecting, and packaging women’s shoes. Overhead, red banners flaunted slogans in English, Chinese, and Amharic, Ethiopia’s...

Irish Prime Minister Mr. Loe Varadkar will pay an official visit to Ethiopia next week, 9 January 2019. During his visit Prime Minister Mr. Loe Varadkar is scheduled to hold discussion with President Sahlework- Zewdie and Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed, on Bilateral and Multilateral...

A tweet by Martin Plaut,  the former BBC Africa editor who is now Senior Research Fellow at Institute of Commonwealth Studies,  left Somalis in the Twittersphere wondering why a President who had campaigned on anti–Ethiopian interference in Somali politics might give Ethiopia a base in the Southern...