Ethiopia

As Somaliland inaugurates its new president, DP World, leading logistic and maritime transport company, is to set to commence with the first phase of the Berbera Port expansion project early next year, The Reporter learnt. We are now finalizing the bidding process for the construction work and...

ADDIS ABABA - The newly named Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Rail Transport S.C revealed that the Ethio-Djibouti railway is undergoing its final trial before commencing services soon. The first standard gauge electrified railroad on the continent, once fully operational, is expected to provide link to the...

Ethiopia has emerged as the most profitable market for Dangote Cement, which sold 1.7 million tonnes there, pushing its sales volume across Africa by 7.5 per cent to seven million tonnes. And now, the firm has entered into an agreement with the Industrial and Commercial...

The Ethiopian government says its embassy will continue to be in the known Israeli capital, Tel Aviv despite United States president opting to recognise Jerusalem as the capital. At a media conference late last week, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Meles Alem told reporters that Trump's move...

The 12th Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Day of Ethiopia/Constitution Day/ was colorfully marked in Somaliland, Hargeisa at Maansoor Hotel on December 7/2017 with a theme of “Our Constitutional and Colourful Multi-nationalism for our Renaissance”. The celebration was attended by hundreds of resident Ethiopians in...

By Kaleyesus Bekele The Ethiopian government canceled the planned Ethio-Djibouti fuel pipeline project, which was proposed to be undertaken by Black Rhino Group. In 2014 the South Africa-based infrastructure investment group, Black Rhino, proposed to the Ethiopian government to build a 550km long pipeline to transport diesel,...

Tensions are rising between Egypt and Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Renaissance Dam. Cairo recently reiterated its longstanding position that it’s against Addis Ababa’s construction of this megaproject on the Blue Nile river through which it receives most of its water, believing that the dam...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia –  Ethiopia's government says more than 20 people have been killed in renewed clashes between ethnic Oromos and Somalis in the past week. Spokesman Negeri Lenco says 98 people were arrested in the Oromia region and five arrested in the Somali region....

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban   Somalia’s parliament, the House of the People, says the government’s formal handover of a Somali national to neighbouring Ethiopia was illegal. The parliamentary body set up to probe the circumstances surrounding the transfer of Mr. Abdikarin Sheikh Muse of the Ogaden National...

CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, for the second time in as many days, has delivered a stern warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building after the two countries along with Sudan failed to approve a study on its potential effects. Ethiopia is...