Ethiopia

By Alem Fisshatzion, It was with dismay that we read today alarming reports that warn of catastrophic food insufficiency in Ethiopia. The grim picture shows that Ethiopia will need an extra $230 million from donors to secure aid for 4.5 million people this year alone....

By M.A. Egge Ethiopian Premier Haile Mariam Desalegn has reiterated that his country’s strong bilateral relations with Somaliland was quite essential and here to stay because of the mutual bilateral interests entailed and cherished between the two countries which is based on neighbourliness . The premier...

State Minister Hirut Zemene met Djiboutian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Ambassador Mohamed Idriss Farah today (January 17, 2017) wherein the two sides have reaffirmed to expedite the already strong relations. The discussions focused on further strengthening the exemplary and multi-range of bilateral ties and solidifying the...

By Vasudevan Sridharan The $4.2bn railroad links Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. The 752km-long Addis Ababa-Djibouti Railway connecting the Ethiopian capital and the port city of Djibouti was inaugurated on Tuesday, 10 January, at Nagad railway station in Djibouti...

By:Kalkidan Yibeltal An analysis on what the rising ethnic nationalism among the historically powerful Amhara means for the country's future. Amba Giorgis, Ethiopia - Etenesh* sits alone on a worn cow skin in her mud-walled home in Amba Giorgis, a small Ethiopian market town in the...

HAMBURG (Reuters) - The Ethiopian government has issued an international tender to purchase 70,000 tonnes of milling wheat, European traders said on Monday. The tender deadline was January 5, they said. Finance for the purchase has been provided by the World Bank, traders said. Ethiopia has issued...

By LARISA BROWN and JASON GROVES FOR THE DAILY MAIL Pop group Yegna received £4m as part of project to empower women in Ethiopia Despite warnings of public money being wasted a further £5.2m was promised  However ministers pulled the plug on the band...

At least 200 million women alive today in 30 countries have been subjected to the painful procedure known as female genital mutilation, a practice the U.N. says is deeply rooted in tradition in some cultures. About half of those women come from Egypt, Somalia...

Federal and state governments would join hands to see better market and prevent loss. Destocking live animals is widely practiced in the southern and eastern parts of the country affected by the drought to minimize loss. As pastoralists keep large number of herds, it is hard...

Construction of the 6,000-megawatt, US $5 billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began nearly six years ago and is now close to completion. Sometime in 2017, the dam, which sits on the Blue Nile near the border of Ethiopia and Sudan, will begin producing...