France’s Orange eyes Ethiopia’s telcom sector
France’s leading telecommunications company Orange believes the planned liberalisation of the sector in Ethiopia will take shape in 2020. Ethiopia is one of the last countries whose telecoms industry...
View ArticleProf. Atalay Alem won the 2019 Harvard Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology &...
Prof_Atalay_Alem, Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry at Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia won the 2019 Harvard Award in Psychiatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics....
View ArticleAt least 17 people killed in Ethiopia during unrest over Sidama autonomy:...
Dawit Endeshaw ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group,...
View ArticleEthiopia migrants to Saudi subjected to indescribable violations
Ethiopian migrants to Saudi Arabia are suffering “indescribable hardships and abuses,” according to the latest report by Human Rights Watch (HRW), which described the “exploitation and torture” they...
View ArticleCOUP-PROOFING ETHIOPIA: HOW THE UNITED STATES CAN PROMOTE STABILITY IN AN...
|Cameron Evers | In June, an attempted coup in Ethiopia centered principally in the northern region of Amhara temporarily threw the country into turmoil—and left the army’s chief of staff dead....
View ArticleIndia hints it could use nuclear weapons FIRST in war with Pakistan as...
By BRIDIE PEARSON-JONES FOR MAILONLINE India committed in 1999 to not being the first to use nuclear weapons in conflict Defence Minister Singh said Delhi might change its policy amid Pakistan tension...
View ArticleEthiopian sole survivor of migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean describes how...
(Telegraph) — An Ethiopian man has described the horror of being the only survivor from a boat full of migrants who ran out of food, water and fuel in the middle of the Mediterranean. Fifteen migrants...
View ArticleEthiopian parliament approves electoral, political parties bill- state...
NAIROBI, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s parliament has approved an electoral and political parties draft bill, the state broadcaster reported on Saturday, paving the way for national elections next...
View ArticleEthiopia to install 4G network ahead of telecoms liberalization
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s state-run Ethio Telecom plans to install a 4G network in the capital and other regions and to upgrade other network services, it said on Friday, as the government...
View ArticleThis Authentic Ethiopian Dish Feeds Both Body and Soul (By Gloria Alamrew)
Learning to love injera has given me a deeper appreciation of my culture Gloria Alamrew remember not liking injera when I was a kid. The spongy, slightly sour bread wrapped around a savory combination...
View ArticleGates Open on Ethiopia’s Infamous Maekelawi Jail (Laetitia Bader)
Today, Maekelawi, the infamous police station in the heart of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, was opened for the first time to the public. For years, Maekelawi has been synonymous with abuse and...
View ArticleETHIOPIA, EGYPT, AND SUDAN DISAGREE OVER NILE DAM PROJECT
n Sunday, September 15, irrigation ministers from Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan met in Cairo for talks regarding Ethiopia’s plan to build the Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on the Nile river. The...
View ArticleEthnic violence in Ethiopia leaves churches burned and worshipers killed
by Jefrey Cimmino Over a year after the ascent of a new prime minister in Ethiopia bred hope for reform, bursting ethnic tensions are sending the country into a spiral of violence that is leaving...
View ArticleIGAD: Ethiopia, Somalia refuse to endorse translucence protocol
ENTEBBE, Uganda The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states have failed to agree to endorse protocol on transhumance. This came after the two member countries Ethiopia and...
View ArticleEthiopia’s ruling party hired people to influence social media conversations...
At Least 70 Countries Have Had Disinformation Campaigns, Study Finds In Vietnam, citizens were enlisted to post pro-government messages on their personal Facebook pages. The Guatemalan government used...
View ArticleEthiopian position on exploitation of the Nile River highlighted
Addis Abeba, Sep 27 (Prensa Latina) Ethiopia’s position on the exploitation of the Nile River, reiterated before the United Nations by President Sahle-Work Zewde, occupies this Friday prominent spaces...
View ArticleDeadly unrest in Ethiopia hampers PM’s political reform attempts
|Theguardian.com| Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia who won the Nobel peace prize last month, is facing the most serious crisis of his term in office after the death of scores of people in a...
View ArticleEgypt puts forth new details in Ethiopia dam negotiations
CAIRO — The second meeting of the Ethiopian, Sudanese and Egyptian ministers of water, held in Cairo Dec. 2-3 in the presence of observers from the United States and the World Bank, did not reach...
View ArticleWhat if the world’s center of gravity had moved to Africa?
As Ursula von der Leyen prepares to make Ethiopia her first overseas visit, MEPs Chrysoula Zacharopoulou, Norbert Neuser and Carlos Zorrinho explain why the new Commission president must reach out to...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Peace Prize Challenge
BY BINIAM BEDASSO Ahead of next year’s election in Ethiopia – the country’s first since embarking on a transition to democracy in April 2018 – mistrust is rampant. To prevent sectarian forces from...
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