Ethiopia: Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission Resigns.
Belachew Mekuria (PhD), Commissioner of Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), has resigned from his position effective yesterday September 11. Belachew was appointed to the position by Prime Minister...
View ArticleEthiopia has highest number of internally displaced people in 2018
1.4 million Ethiopians fled their homes this year, while 1.2 million Syrians left their homes Campbell MacDiarmid More people were internally displaced in Ethiopia in the first half of 2018 than in...
View ArticleJustice for Wolaita victims in South Ethiopia -WCHR
(WCHR) – 2018 has been one of the most deadly years to be a Wolaita-Ethiopian. Without urgent accountability against the mass murders in southern Ethiopia, we believe history will repeat itself with...
View ArticleWhat can Nepal learn from Ethiopia?
This Nepali Ethiopian Airlines pilot offers a checklist BY: Kunda Dixit Nepal and Ethiopia have travelled similar trajectories as nations. Both are ancient landlocked former monarchies, both suffered...
View ArticleUS Must Support Ethiopia’s ‘Fragile’ Reforms, Diplomat Says [voa]
The United States should strengthen its ties to Ethiopia following unprecedented reforms in the East African nation, a top U.S. diplomat said Wednesday. Tibor Nagy, the newly appointed assistant...
View ArticleEthiopian airstrike kills 70 al-Shabab in Somalia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – A new report says Ethiopia’s air force has killed about 70 al-Shabab extremists in an airstrike in neighboring Somalia. The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate...
View ArticleSaudi King Hosts Ethiopia, Eritrea Peace Summit in Jeddah
New York – Jeddah – Ali Barada and Asharq Al-Awsat Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz will host a summit between Ethiopia and Eritrea in Jeddah Sunday to sign a peace agreement...
View ArticleU.S. Embassy in Ethiopia — Travel Alert
Residents of small towns around Addis Ababa say they are targeted and attacked by a group called “Qerro” (often described themselves as ‘Oromo ethnic youth’). Victims of the attacks are now fleeing to...
View ArticleMr. Prime Minister: LOVE also passionately defends the helpless and the innocent
By Assegid Habtewold[1] I love and respect Abiy. I want him to succeed. I pray for him and his team on a daily basis. One way of demonstrating love is being honest and providing someone you care about...
View ArticleEthiopia and Eritrea sign peace deal in Saudi Arabia
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View Article1,000 Ethiopia Jews to move to Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a ministerial committee that he would allow 1,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Falash Mura tribe to move to Israel, Israeli media reported on Monday. “I am...
View ArticleEthiopia’s stunning reforms now challenged by deadly unrest
By ELIAS MESERET, ASSOCIATED PRESS Ethiopia’s stunning political reforms are now threatened by long-standing ethnic tensions that have roared back to life since a young prime minister took power just...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Ambitious Leader Reaches for the Stars
Highlights Addis Ababa will drum up foreign investment by trying to privatize key state-owned industries, but it will continue to grapple with the economic slowdown caused by its foreign exchange...
View ArticleEthiopia: Police must face immediate investigation after five protesters shot...
Amnesty Press Release Amnesty International today called on the Ethiopian authorities to thoroughly and effectively investigate the violent dispersal of demonstrators by police in Addis Ababa in which...
View ArticleThe reformists shouldn’t retreat nor take a defensive position
By Assegid Habtewold[1] A large-scale national change like what is happening in Ethiopia right now doesn’t just go smoothly without some ups and downs- without experiencing some setbacks. The...
View ArticleToll from Ethiopia bloodshed at least 58 – Rappler
he cited figure is more than double government estimates, and could be as high as 65, according to another source ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – At least 58 people were killed during a weekend of ethnic...
View ArticleNEWS: ODP CONCLUDES CONFERENCE, ELECTS NINE CRUCIAL MEMBERS OF ITS EXECUTIVE...
ADDIS STANDARD: Addis Abeba, September 21/2018 –The just completed 9th organizational conference of the newly renamed Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) has elected nine members of its executive committee,...
View ArticleObama warns against the dangers of ethnic politics
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View ArticleEthiopian Domestic Workers Battle for Survival in Saudi Arabia
By Rabiya Jaffery Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — Marjani F, 44, spent 8 years in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital working as domestic help. “My husband was killed by the military after being accused of...
View ArticleThe Invisible Hands Trying to Turn Back the Hands of Time in Ethiopia [Prof...
I just returned from Ethiopia after a 48-year absence. Ethiopia has changed in ways I could not possibly imagine. It also has not changed at all. The old saying is true. The more things change, the...
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