Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s parliament will meet on Friday to decide whether or not to extend the state of emergency imposed since October last year. Originally imposed for a six-month period, the state of emergency is in its tenth month after it was extended by four months upon...

By:Muluken Yewondwossen – Capital Public private partnership (PPP) law will be one of the priority proclamations tabled for the parliament when it returns from recess. In his budget speech Abraham Tekeste (PhD), Minister of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC) stated that ties with the private sector...

South Sudan’s government said on Friday it had taken the last town before the main rebel base of Pagak, where thousands of civilians have fled to escape fighting near the border with Ethiopia. Mai-wut had been under rebel control since the beginning of the war...

Horndiplomat-President Mulatu Teshome appointed today 11 Ambassador Plenipotentiaries. The newly-appointed Ambassador Plenipotentiaries are: 1/Kasa Tekleberhane Member of ANDM and EPRDF executive committees and Minister of Federal Affairs Minister since October 2015. 2/ Shiferaw Teklemariam Member of SEPDM and EPRDF executive committees. He was appointed Education Minister last October. 3. Amb....

Ethiopia says that only a fraction of its citizens working illegally in Saudi Arabia have returned home before today's amnesty deadline. In March, the Gulf state said that those without papers would not be arrested if they left within 90 days. The deadline was extended by...

The benefits for Ethiopia and for many electricity-importing countries in East Africa from the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam are clear. However, the implications for downstream countries aren’t all positive – and need to be better understood. In 2016, about 30% of Ethiopia’s...

Over 110 Somali prisonsers freed by neighbouring Ethiopia based on a diplomatic arrangement arrived in Mogadishu on Saturday. Somali Prime Minister, Hassan Ali Khaire, announced earlier this month that Ethiopia had accepted to hand over some 120 Somalis held in its detention facilities. He tweeted the...

Ethiopia and Djibouti on Friday vow to further bolster cooperation security and defence areas between the two countries. The state-owned Ethiopia Broadcast Corporation reported that the joint defence committee of the two nations commenced in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Ethiopia and Djibouti established a joint defence committee...

Ethiopia earned a record $866 million from the export of coffee, its principal revenue earner in the last fiscal year. The East African country exported 221,000 tons of coffee in the fiscal year 2015-2016, the Ethiopian Herald reports. The figure amounts to 11.5 percent growth in...

Businesses in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa have refused to open as part of a tax-hike protest that has hit small business operators. The “resistance” which started sometime last week in the wider Oromia region is said to have reached the capital with Addis Standard (AS)...