Ethiopia

HornDiplomat-Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed met and held discussions with Egyptian Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly on Sunday (November 18) on the margins of the 11th Extraordinary Summit of the African Union, being held in Addis Ababa. Dr. Abiy noted the existing strong cooperation and...

Abbay Media News Girma Alemu The Somali Government allegedly requested the help of neighboring countries following the terrorist act that ensued on 14 October 2017. The American government is helping the war effort against Al-Shabaab in Somalia with logistics and bombing the enemy positions with drones but...

Horndiplomat-The Ogaden Liberation Front (ONLF) has today disarmed 1,740 of its armed members. As per an agreement ONLF and Somali regional state signed late this afternoon, the disarmed members will be reintegrated into the regional state either as security forces or as civil servants.  In addition...

Press Release By Finland Ministry for Foreign Affairs On 23 January 2024, Finland Minister for Foreign Affairs Elina Valtonen appointed Suldaan Said Ahmed as her Special Envoy on Peace Mediation in the Horn of Africa. In...

Horndiplomat-Ethiopian State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mrs. Hirut Zemene met with Mbagnick Ndiaye, Minister of African Integration, NEPAD, and Francophonie of the Republic of Senegal, on the sidelines of the 11th Assembly of the AU on today (18 November 18), during which, the two sides have agreed to...

By: AFP US envoy said Wednesday she encouraged the leaders of Somalia and Ethiopia to de-escalate tensions after a rift over Addis Ababa reaching a maritime deal with Somaliland. Ethiopia, which lost access...

A new railway line connecting Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa to the port city of Djibouti is set to be officially inaugurated next month. A government-organized media tour Saturday touted the flagship project, mostly funded by China, and set to officially open in October. The railway line,...

Egypt, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Ethiopia are the three top African countries who will be affected by a move by the United States to cancel a visa lottery regime. Figures from the Department of State indicates that the three countries had over...

By: VOA Officials from Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray region are meeting in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, to discuss the next steps for a peace deal to end two years of war.Senior Ethiopian government officials and Tigray...

Ethiopia has declared an outbreak of acute watery diarrhea, also known as AWD, in the country's Somali region, where people are already struggling to cope with a persistent drought. Dr. Akpaka Kalu, the World Health Organization representative to Ethiopia, told VOA on Friday that 16,000...