Ethiopia

Horndiplomat-Today, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s (IGAD’s) Security Sector Program (IGAD SSP) in collaboration with Sahan Foundation has officially launched the study report conducted on “Al-Shabaab as a Transnational Security Threat”. Al Shabaab has aspired to become a truly regional organization, with the membership and...

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) has disarmed 1,740 of its armed members. After receiving rehabilitation training, the soldiers will be reintegrated into the Somali regional state either as security forces or as civil servants, it was noted. Mustafa Muhumed Omer, Deputy Chief Administrator of the...

State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs, Hirut Zemene met with the German Minister of State, Mrs. Michelle Muntefering later on Tuesday (January 22) on the margins of the EU-African Union Ministerial meeting being held in Brussels, Belgium. They discussed on the upcoming visit of German President Frank-Walter...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile. The two countries are at odds over the construction...

Over 110 Somali prisonsers freed by neighbouring Ethiopia based on a diplomatic arrangement arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday. Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, announced earlier this month that Ethiopia had accepted to hand over some 120 Somalis held in its detention facilities. He tweeted the...

By:BBC AFRICA More than 200 people have been killed following fighting in western Ethiopia. The state-appointed Ethiopia Human Rights Commission said the rebel Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) had killed about 150 people. Local officials told the BBC that fighters from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups clashed...

By: FANA BC  Ethiopia Chief of Staff of the Army, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula officially stated that ‘from today there is no organization and structure called regional special force’ in Ethiopia. The ongoing...

Leaders from Marsabit and Mandera counties have urged communities living along the Kenya-Ethiopia border to co-exist peacefully. Speaking during a fundraiser in aid of Tolki Special Interest Group in Moyale on Sunday, the leaders were happy that clashes witnessed in the two border counties in...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian members of parliament have elected Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president. Her election to the ceremonial position comes a week after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed a cabinet with half the posts taken up by women. After being sworn in, President Sahle-Work promised...

By Kaleyesus Bekele Alarmed by the political and security turmoil that occurred in the Ethio-Somali Regional State last week, oil companies engaged in oil exploration projects in the region have evacuated their staff to Addis Ababa, it was learnt. Following the security crisis in the fragile region,...