Ethiopia

By: Bloomberg Ethiopia has started exporting electricity to neighboring Kenya following a week of testing of a new transmission line, Ethiopian Electric Power said.The $500 million line has capacity to transmit 2,000 megawatts of electricity, potentially earning...

By: Jama Farah, Horndiplomat Contributor Somaliland has rejected a planned joint visit by Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. On 15 February,  Unconfirmed source indicates a proposed visit to Hargeisa by Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed and Somalia President Mohamed Abdilahi Farmaajo...

BY:FANA Ethiopia and Russia plan to sign a number of cooperation agreements on trade, tourism and nuclear cooperation at an intergovernmental commission meeting in Addis Ababa in April. Mehreteab Mulugeta, the director general for European affairs at the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, held talks with Andrei Kemarsky,...

By:Mfonobong Nsehe ,   CONTRIBUTOR I chronicle Africa's success stories and track its richest people Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. A few Ethiopians have built multi-million and billion dollar empires in industries as diverse as agriculture, food, construction, energy and distribution and earned multi-million dollar...

By: FDI Intelligence Somaliland’s road to international recognition remains an uphill struggle. Although the breakaway region has been functioning as a de facto independent state since 1991, with its own institutions, flag and currency, the global community...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s parliament swore in Abiye Ahmed as prime minister on Monday with a mandate to implement democratic reforms aimed partly at defusing ethnic tensions in the Oromiya province from which the former army lieutenant general hails. The ruling coalition picked Abiye...

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...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopia State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Hirut Zemene receives UK Director for Africa at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office ( Foreign Office) Ms Harriett Baldwin, on Monday (November 26), and the two sides have agreed to expand the bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and the...

By: Staff writer Ethiopia's Somali region president Mustafa Muhumed Omar has backed the recent MoU between Ethiopia and Somaliland. President Omar says Ethiopia relies on neighboring countries to export and import. He reportedly...

By: WFP ADDIS ABABA – The first United Nations Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) passenger flight, which is managed by the United Nations World Food Programme, has touched down at Tigray’s Alula Aba Nega International Airport in Mekelle today. It is the first passenger flight into the...