Ethiopia

ADDIS ABABA, May 1 (Reuters) - Ethiopia will take a stake in the Port of Djibouti, its main gateway for trade, under a deal reached between the two countries, state media outlets said on Tuesday. Djibouti had been seeking investors for its port since it...

Horndiplomat-Foreign Minister Dr Workneh Gebeyehu received the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mr Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein at his office on Wednesday (April 25, 2018) and discussions focused on ways of establishing closer cooperation with UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) and...

Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban The United States Department of State on Saturday announced that a top official on African Affairs was due to tour three East African countries between April 22 – April 26. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Ambassador Donald Y. Yamamoto will...

Ethiopia’s parliament, the House of Peoples’ Representatives, has chosen a former Minister of Women’s Affairs, as its new speaker, state-affiliated FANA Broadcasting Corporate reports. The report confirms earlier rumours that Muferiat Kamil was set to be named speaker. She replaces Abadula Gemeda who has been in the...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopia’s new prime minister Abiy Ahmed Ali names a cabinet on Thursday that includes the former mining minister as defense minister and retains the finance and foreign ministers from his predecessor’s cabinet. List of Newly Appointed Cabinets Announced by Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed 1️ Ambassador...

GENEVA —  The U.N. refugee agency reports that Horn of Africa asylum seekers and migrants arriving in Yemen are being detained under horrific conditions by different armed groups and criminals profiting from the situation. The agency says it is following the cases of some 100 Somali...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has promised to reform laws which he says have led to human rights abuses in the country. He has also pledged to ensure that the next elections in 2020 will be free and fair and the playing field will be...

Horndiplomat-The 5th Ethiopia-Saudi Arabia annual joint Ministerial Commission meeting officially opened this morning (16 April 2018) at the Sheraton Addis Hotel. The JMC was officially opened by the opening remarks of Dr. Kaba Urgessa,State Minister of Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources of Ethiopia. In...

ADDIS ABABA, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who is currently addressing the various groups of the Ethiopian society, will meet 25,000 representatives of the Ethiopian community and the diplomatic community on Sunday. The address will take place in Ethiopia's capital...

For more than two years, as his health deteriorated, Ethiopian opposition leader Bekele Gerba was locked up in a notorious high-security prison on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, accused of “terrorism” for leading anti-government protests. This week, the authorities needed him for a different reason....