Ethiopia

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...

Ethiopia and Djibouti on Friday vow to further bolster cooperation security and defence areas between the two countries. The state-owned Ethiopia Broadcast Corporation reported that the joint defence committee of the two nations commenced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia and Djibouti established a joint defence committee...

Ethiopia earned a record $866 million from the export of coffee, its principal revenue earner in the last fiscal year. The East African country exported 221,000 tons of coffee in the fiscal year 2015-2016, the Ethiopian Herald reports. The figure amounts to 11.5 percent growth in...

Businesses in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa have refused to open as part of a tax-hike protest that has hit small business operators. The “resistance” which started sometime last week in the wider Oromia region is said to have reached the capital with Addis Standard (AS)...

By Paul Schemm July 18 at 5:00 AM NARDO CAMP, Ethiopia — Zeinab Taher once roamed through Ethiopia’s arid Somali region tending a vast herd of 350 sheep, goats and cattle with her nine children. Then the autumn rains failed and the grass that fed her...

Abdur Rahman Alfa ShabanKENYA-Three African countries made the top 10 on the medals table of the 18th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) youth championship in Kenya. South Africa, hosts Kenya and neighbouring Ethiopia made the continent proud. South Africa topped the medals table with...

Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’. The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month. Among those facing...

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban  Ethiopia has been described as an anchor of peace in the restive Horn of Africa region. This is according to United States senator, Bob Corker. According to the Corker who is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations, the highest body of the...

Addis Ababa, July 12, 2017 (FBC) –Chaired by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, the first regular meeting of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Council held today. The meeting, which was conducted at the Prime Minister’s office, discussed in detail on collective works, legal frameworks, policies...

(CNN) — What sets Ethiopia apart from its African neighbors? The excellent coffee? The fact that it was never colonized? Or that Rastafarians regard it as their spiritual home? Or could it be the smooth, well-maintained roads, so rare on the continent, that make exploring the country by...