EPRDF Congress Re-elects Abiy Ahmed as Chair, Demeke Mekonnen as Deputy Chair
Ethiopian Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed is re-elected as Chairman of the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), winning 176 votes out of the total 177 secret ballots casted...
View ArticleIsrael’s Cabinet approves plan to reunite 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura with...
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Cabinet approved a plan to bring some 1,000 Ethiopian Falash Mura who have children living in Israel to the country. The plan approved on Sunday was put forward by Prime...
View ArticleCommercial Bank of Ethiopia woos diaspora with mortgage loans
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), has announced plans to woo nationals in the diaspora with mortgage loans. The bank in a statement issued on Friday said the persons targeted are non-resident...
View ArticleThey arrived with guns, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered them to do push-ups
|WATCH| Ethiopia’s prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, ordered protesting soldiers who arrived at his office in the capital, Addis Ababa, with guns to do 10 push-ups and then joined them. The BBC reports the...
View ArticleMeet the 19-year-old tech genius coding at Ethiopia’s first AI lab
(By Alice McCool and Thomas Lewton, for CNN At 19-years-old, Betelhem Dessie is perhaps the youngest pioneer in Ethiopia’s fast emerging tech scene, sometimes referred to as ‘Sheba Valley’. Dessie is...
View ArticleThousands of families reunited one month after Ethiopia–Eritrea border reopens
Families separated for years enjoy tearful reunions and migrants seek new lives, as over 10,000 people have crossed into Ethiopia since 11 September. “We’re seeing the fruits of peace one month on from...
View ArticleTomfoolery in Ethiopia: “No Fool Like an Old Fool” [Prof Alemariam]
I don’t know what is wrong with some people in my generation. Especially those who claim to be political leaders. H.E. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed says, “The true test of leadership is the ability...
View ArticleIS PRIME MINISTER ABIY HEARING THE CALL FOR POLITICAL REFORM COMING FROM THE...
When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Gambella in late May 2018, he noticed how far behind the region was in its overall development compared to most regions of the country. He later noted these...
View ArticleVisa rejected after man told his wife is his sister
All Daniel Tadese wants is to be with his wife and child. But as his son Natnael prepares to mark his fourth birthday next week, there is no end in sight to the bureaucratic nightmare that has torn the...
View ArticleRights groups warn Ethiopia against return to repression
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) – Rights groups are calling on Ethiopia’s reformist new leader to stop using repressive tactics once favored by the previous leadership, in their most outspoken criticism...
View ArticleRWANDA FOLLOWS ETHIOPIA AND PRESENTS 50 PERCENT FEMALE CABINET. HOW FAR...
BY CHANTAL DA SILVA: Just two days after Ethiopia became one of the few countries in the world to introduce a “gender-balanced” cabinet, Rwanda has joined its ranks.On Thursday, Rwanda announced that...
View ArticleARDUF CONDEMNS THE BRUTAL ATTACK ON PEACEFUL YOUTH PROTESTERS IN THE AFAR REGION
ARDUF (UGUUGUMO) is gravely concerned by the recent brutal attack by the security forces on the peaceful Afar Youth protestors known more as Duko-Hina (No to oppression). Appointed by the TPLF and...
View ArticleEthiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) Launches!
————————————————————- The Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund (EDTF) Advisory Council (Council) is pleased to announce the launch of the Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund on October 22, 2018 through its...
View ArticleEthiopia: On the right track?
The world was shaken by images of Ethiopian famine back in 1984, yet since then the country has achieved a remarkable turnaround to become one of Africa’s economic success stories in the volatile Horn...
View ArticleEthiopia: Climbing Mount Uncertainty!
|By René Lefort | Abiy Ahmed has already gone down in history by breaking – in just a few weeks –almost every rule in the age-old Ethiopian way of governing. His liberal reforms and diplomatic openings...
View ArticleEthiopian Diaspora Trust Fund is Now Live: A Labor of Love, A Work in Progress
By Prof Al Mariam … In the Western world, one cup of macchiato [coffee with milk] could cost $3, $4 or $5 U.S. dollars. But what I beg of the Diaspora is to take $1 from their daily macchiato expense...
View ArticleEthiopia appoints first female president in its modern history in latest reform
By Paul Schemm Washington post ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia’s parliament on Thursday approved the East African country’s first female president, Sahlework Zewde, a veteran of the United Nations...
View ArticleAs Ethiopia reforms, ethnic violence spreads
|By AFP | Two decades ago, Ethiopia’s leaders took a gamble: give the country’s many ethnicities their own autonomous regions in the hope greater prosperity would forge national unity. For a time it...
View ArticleMustefa Mohamed, newly appointed president of Somali region denounces...
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View ArticleKing and Crown Prince congratulate president of Ethiopia
RIYADH – Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman sent a cable of congratulations to the President of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Sahle-Work Zewde, on assuming the office of...
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