Ethiopia

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn will arrive in Egypt on Monday evening in a state visit which will go on until Wednesday, informed sources told Al-Masry Al-Youm on Friday. Desalegn’s visit comes in the framework of the joint Egyptian-Ethiopian committee which was due to convene...

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Monday left the capital Addis Ababa for the start of his first European tour, chief of staff Fitsum Arega wrote on Twitter. Abiy will be in two countries over the period of his visit – Germany...

AU and UN welcomed recent positive developments in the Horn of Africa as steps in the consolidation of peace and security in the region. The United Nations-African Union Joint Task Force on Peace and Security, which held its Fifteenth Consultative Meeting in New York on...

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...

Lawmakers in Ethiopia’s eastern Somali regional state have voted to restore a flag that was changed by the erstwhile president Abdi Mohamoud Omar a.k.a. Abdi Illey. Harun Maruf, a Somali journalist with the Voice of America, VOA, reported that the parliament in the regional capital Jijiga...

Minister for Africa deepens political ties and increases support for refugees and education, on a visit to Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia. Harriett Baldwin, Foreign Office and DFID Minister for Africa, visited East Africa 4-7 October, travelling to Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, including the Somaliland region. Uganda In...

By:AFP Ethiopia's attorney general said Friday that two men had confessed to killing a popular singer from the Oromo ethnic group as part of a plot to topple Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government. Hachala Hundessa became a symbol of the Oromo struggle during years of anti-government...

BY:FANABC Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed arrived in Doha this morning on an official visit to Qatar. Upon arrival, he was received by Jassim bin Saif Al Sulaiti, Minister of Communications. During his visit, the Prime Minister will meet with the Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani...

 BY:Fana The 2019 World Press Freedom Day Global Conference will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 2-3 May. Jointly organized by UNESCO, the Government of Ethiopia, and the African Union Commission (AUC), the international conference will be held at the Headquarters of the African Union. The...

Ethiopia has said it will now accept the terms of a peace deal signed in 2000 that it had up until now not fully accepted. The news came hours after Ethiopia lifted a state of emergency. Ethiopia has announced it will fully accept the terms...