Ethiopia

  Nine months into a state-of-emergency imposed to quell popular unrest, Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has unveiled its first significant political concession. But the furor surrounding the draft bill presented to parliament last week reveals just how deep tensions...

Horndiplomat- Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gedu Andargachew met with the Ambassador of the Republic of Kenya, Ambassador Catherine Mwangi this afternoon (May 15). The meeting has come as part of the Minister’s continued engagement with diplomats and representatives of neighboring countries. The two sides underlined...

Horndiplomat-The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs will repatriate 2400 Ethiopian nationals from Saudi Arabia this week. Following series of successful negotiations with the Government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the 2400 Ethiopian nationals will be released from jails for reasons...

The ministry’s spokesperson, Tewolde Mulgeta, told Sudan Tribune that Bashir will on Tuesday arrive in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where he will hold meetings with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn and other government officials. The two leaders are expected to discuss a range of...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has rejected a call by Egypt for World Bank arbitration in a dispute over a hydroelectric dam Addis Ababa is building along its share of the Nile. The two countries are at odds over the construction...

By :KBC Correspondent Ethiopia is set to become the 9th member state of East Africa Community (EAC), just a few months after Somali’s admission to the bloc. This was disclosed by Peninah Malonza,...

By: BBC AFRICA Rebel forces from Ethiopia's conflict-hit Tigray region have accused the African Union of bias, days after the bloc appointed the former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo as a mediator. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), Getachew Reda, accused the AU of...

Ethiopia and the People’s Republic of China have agreed to further bolster their cooperation in bilateral, continental and international issues of mutual concern. This has been emphasized this morning (February 9), during a meeting between Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs,  Dr. Workneh Gebeyehu and Assistant...

An important outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea is sweeping through Doolo zone, in Ethiopia’s Somali region, exacerbated by one of the worst droughts in 30 years. In response, teams from Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) are working alongside Ethiopian health authorities to bring the outbreak...

By Zecharias Zelalem, ALJAZEERA Since 1991 when Eritrea gained independence from neighbouring Ethiopia, one of the world’s oldest countries and Africa’s second most populous country, has been landlocked.With Eritrea in control of the Assab port that had...