Ethiopia

By Paul Schemm July 18 at 5:00 AM NARDO CAMP, Ethiopia — Zeinab Taher once roamed through Ethiopia’s arid Somali region tending a vast herd of 350 sheep, goats and cattle with her nine children. Then the autumn rains failed and the grass that fed her...

Abdur Rahman Alfa ShabanKENYA-Three African countries made the top 10 on the medals table of the 18th International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) youth championship in Kenya. South Africa, hosts Kenya and neighbouring Ethiopia made the continent proud. South Africa topped the medals table with...

Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’. The group members were arrested in December 2016 and were held in detention without charges until last month. Among those facing...

By:Abdur Rahman Alfa Shaban  Ethiopia has been described as an anchor of peace in the restive Horn of Africa region. This is according to United States senator, Bob Corker. According to the Corker who is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations, the highest body of the...

Addis Ababa, July 12, 2017 (FBC) –Chaired by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, the first regular meeting of the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Council held today. The meeting, which was conducted at the Prime Minister’s office, discussed in detail on collective works, legal frameworks, policies...

(CNN) — What sets Ethiopia apart from its African neighbors? The excellent coffee? The fact that it was never colonized? Or that Rastafarians regard it as their spiritual home? Or could it be the smooth, well-maintained roads, so rare on the continent, that make exploring the country by...

Thirty-eight Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have piled renewed pressure on the European Union to voice concern about the political situation in Ethiopia. In a letter with the subject, ‘EU response to the human rights situation in Ethiopia,’ and addressed to the European Union...

The Ethiopia-Djibouti cross border potable water project is ready to start operation in about three months, with expecting to provide safe drinking water to more than 700,000 Djibouti nationals EthopiaThe Ethiopia-Djibouti water project is classified as one of the largest water projects in Africa. (Image...

The Ethiopian parliament on Friday unanimously passed a 320.8 billion birr ($13.9 billion) budget for the financial year of 2017/18, the amount represents an increase of nearly 17 percent on the previous year, the ministry of finance said. The East African nation’s budget sets aside...

This additional assistance brings EU humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa region (including Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Djibouti) to nearly €260m since the beginning of the year. “The situation in Horn of Africa has drastically deteriorated in 2017 and it keeps getting worse. Millions...