Ethiopia

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemeriam Desalegn and two other government officials have been summoned by a federal high court to serve as witnesses in the ongoing terrorism and criminal trials of two Oromo opposition leaders and 15 others. The Prime Minister, Speaker of Parliament Abadula Gemeda...

  Fourteen kilometres outside the Ethiopian town of Gode, a group of women with bands of dusty children clutching their dresses point to a patch of ground on the outskirts of their makeshift settlement, where their prized black-headed sheep lie dead. The women remain friendly despite...

Ethiopia has lifted a state of emergency enacted on October 9, 2016 after a deadly week of arson and violence left many private and state-owned firms in flames. The Ethiopian parliament based in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa Friday formally lifted the state of emergency after...

Ethiopia’s parliament will meet on Friday to decide whether or not to extend the state of emergency imposed since October last year. Originally imposed for a six-month period, the state of emergency is in its tenth month after it was extended by four months upon...

By:Muluken Yewondwossen – Capital Public private partnership (PPP) law will be one of the priority proclamations tabled for the parliament when it returns from recess. In his budget speech Abraham Tekeste (PhD), Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC) stated that ties with the private sector...

South Sudan’s government said on Friday it had taken the last town before the main rebel base of Pagak, where thousands of civilians have fled to escape fighting near the border with Ethiopia. Mai-wut had been under rebel control since the beginning of the war...

Horndiplomat-President Mulatu Teshome appointed today 11 Ambassador Plenipotentiaries. The newly-appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiaries are: 1/Kasa Tekleberhane Member of ANDM and EPRDF executive committees and Minister of Federal Affairs Minister since October 2015. 2/ Shiferaw Teklemariam Member of SEPDM and EPRDF executive committees. He was appointed Education Minister last October. 3. Amb....

Ethiopia says that only a fraction of its citizens working illegally in Saudi Arabia have returned home before today's amnesty deadline. In March, the Gulf state said that those without papers would not be arrested if they left within 90 days. The deadline was extended by...

The benefits for Ethiopia and for many electricity-importing countries in East Africa from the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam are clear. However, the implications for downstream countries aren’t all positive – and need to be better understood. In 2016, about 30% of Ethiopia’s...

Over 110 Somali prisonsers freed by neighbouring Ethiopia based on a diplomatic arrangement arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday. Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, announced earlier this month that Ethiopia had accepted to hand over some 120 Somalis held in its detention facilities. He tweeted the...