Ethiopia

Ethiopia and Italy have signed a €30 million loan agreement aimed at supporting the implementation of Inclusive and Sustainable Development of Agricultural Value Chain project in Oromia and Southern Nation, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR). The agreement is part of the 2017-2019 Ethio-Italy Framework signed...

By: Staff Writer Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Gedu Andargachew appreciated the recent briefing made by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation on the situation of GERD for calling the tripartite to resolve issues according to international law and accepted...

By: AFP Nearly 130,000 people in the Greater Horn of Africa are “staring death in the eyes” from catastrophic hunger, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday. Some 48 million people in the...

Police set to examine bodies found in area between Oromia-Somali regions during probe into case of held ex-leader. Ethiopian police have unearthed a mass grave with an estimated 200 bodies in an area between the country's Oromia and Somali regions, according to state-affiliated media. Fana Broadcasting...

The U.S. State Department urged U.S. citizens on Friday to defer all non-essential travel to Ethiopia because of ongoing unrest that has killed hundreds of people, led to thousands of arrests and prompted restrictions on diplomatic travel. The Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency...

By: FANABC During the Ethio-South Korea business forum held in Seoul yesterday, Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed invited more South Korean investors to come to Ethiopia. Ethiopia has made reforms on its policies and laws in order to create favorable business environment and attract more foreign...

REPORT from Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Kenya, Apr 29 2019 (IPS) - Many years of internecine conflict is being replaced by a new narrative of peace along the Kenya-Ethiopia border. Communities that once fought each other are now dreaming of a joint journey towards a better future. Diverse...

BY:BBC AFRICA Tech giant Facebook says that it has removed more than a dozen accounts and pages on Facebook and Instagram "from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan and Turkey. "We removed 17 Facebook accounts, six Pages, and three Instagram accounts from Egypt that targeted Ethiopia, Sudan,...

Horndiplomat-commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), Dr. Belachew Mekuria has resigned. Dr Belachew told Addis Standard Says his leaving for a family reason.  "I am leaving the Commission for a family reason who I wasn’t able to be with due to my work and who do require...

Smugglers have twice forced African migrants off their boats near Yemen this month, leaving dozens to drown. Fatima Mohie-Eldin from Muftah explains the two deadly episodes and looks at why young Ethiopians and Somalis are still trying to sail to war-torn Yemen. On August 10,...