Ethiopia

Thirty-five Ethiopian nationals have been charged with being in the country illegally. The illegal immigrants, who were arrested on Friday at Buna trading centre, were presented at the Wajir Law Courts on Monday. The immigrants told Wajir Resident Magistrate Mugendi Nyaga they were fleeing clashes between border communities...

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...

Source:  UN OCHA HIGHLIGHTS Malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women screened during the week is unprecedently high with 79% of some 15,000 women diagnosed with acute malnutrition in Tigray. Huge price hike due to severe shortages of essential commodities in Tigray. Some 126,000 people received food...

Bekele Gerba, a leading opposition chief in Ethiopia, has been granted bail by a Federal Supreme Court after months of being held in detention. Gerba who is facing criminal charges is a secretary general of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) whose main leader Merera...

ADDIS ABABA, May 3 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia is undertaking feasibility studies to export electricity to South Sudan and Somaliland. Bizuneh Tolcha, Public Relations and Communications Director at Ethiopian Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Electricity said on Wednesday the plan is part of integrating the East...

By:Fana Addis Ababa, April 22, 2019  –Ethiopia and Korea Eximbank have signed two concessional loan agreements amounting to 264 million US dollars. The first loan amounting to170 million US dollars will be used for the southern extension of the national electricity grid power transmission project. The second...

By: Anadolu Agency Ethiopia on Wednesday accused Egypt and Sudan of working to undermine the African Union (AU)-led process of trilateral negotiations on the rules and guidelines for the filling and operation of the $5-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Ambassador Dina...

Ethiopia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland today signed two grant agreements amounting £176 million. Admasu Nebebe, Ethiopia’s State Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation and Mrs. Harriet Baldwin, Minister of State for Africa signed the agreement here in Addis Ababa. As...

Government Should Address Killings in Somali and Oromia Regions By:Maria Burnett Director, East Africa and the Horn@MariaHRWAfrica Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has electrified his country with a range of reforms since he took office in April, including the release of hundreds of political prisoners. But recent incidents...

By M.A. Egge In the last forty-eight hours throughout Somaliland, there has been a lot of talk about the historic agreement in the city of Addis Ababa, between the governments of Somaliland and Ethiopia, which contributes highly...