By Gregory September Ethiopia is not merely pursuing the 2028 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) – it is wagering its political resurgence on it. This ambitious...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
By Des H. Rikhotso Nestled in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia isn’t just a country – it’s a living chronicle of human history, a mosaic of...
By Des H. Rikhotso From 2008 to 2022, Africa defied monolithic narratives. While the continent is often painted with a single brush – either as a...
By Dishant Shah There’s a quiet power in symbolism – especially when it arrives not with fanfare, but in the form of a refrigerated truck loaded...
By Des H Rikhotso After seven years of strategic preparation, Ethiopia is officially set to begin trading under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) marking...
By Apollo Buregyeya When the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began generating electricity in 2023, it marked more than an engineering triumph – it signaled a...
By Godfred Zina The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, has reached completion after more than a decade and US$4 billion in investment....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In a landmark announcement, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared the full completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa’s largest...
By Godfred Zina As Russia expands its footprint in East Africa, Ethiopia and the Russian Federation are forging a closer strategic relationship that spans defense, economics,...
By Godfred Zina The growing diplomatic ties between Eritrea and Saudi Arabia are poised to reshape the power dynamics in the Red Sea and the Horn...
By John Kourkoutas Being landlocked presents both challenges and opportunities. This compelling map from Voronoi App illustrates the 45 landlocked countries globally, including 16 in Africa,...
Ethio Telecom has partnered with the African Development Bank (AfDB) to advance Ethiopia’s digital economy and broaden internet access across Africa. This collaboration aligns with a...
Reuters | An earthquake of magnitude 5.5 struck Ethiopia, east of the capital Addis Ababa, early on Saturday, the German Research Centre for Geosciences (GFZ) said....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
With Türkiye successfully mediating between Somalia and Ethiopia over a naval deal involving breakaway Somaliland, Ethiopia’s defense minister visited Somalia, indicating improved relations after heightened tensions...
By Godfred Zina Despite Africa’s economy rising to $2.8 trillion in 2024, there continue to be economic disparities among the 54 African countries, including South Sudan. With...
Reuters | Ethiopia’s parliament passed long-planned legislation on Tuesday allowing foreign banks to operate in the Horn of Africa country, part of government efforts to attract...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the Ivorian crisis in 2010 demonstrated remarkable diplomatic acumen. When urged by then-opposition...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia plans to export about 100 megawatts of electricity to Tanzania via Kenya once the nations finalize a deal that will enable cross-border trade...
By Gregory Simpkins When Abiy Ahmed became Prime Minister of Ethiopia in April 2018, the country had been ravaged by a protracted conflict with its neighbor,...
Ethiopian President Sahle-Work Zewde resigned from her position on Monday, ending weeks of speculation about her leadership. The Federal House of People’s Representatives elected Taye Atske...
By Mike Muller A new round of angry exchanges has broken out between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). On September 1,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In junior high school, particularly in a subject called “social studies” under the Ghanaian curriculum, we were taught that the assassination of...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the 2010 Ivorian crisis was a strategic move. When then-opposition leader Nana Akufo...
On this day fifty years ago – September 12, 1974, Ethiopia’s Emperor Haile Selassie I was deposed by the Armed Forces Coordinating Committee, known as the...
By Godfred Zina In January 2024, Ethiopia and Somaliland signed a memorandum of understanding that allowed Ethiopia access to the Red Sea via the port of...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia has earmarked several billion dollars to cushion the cost-of-living impact of economic reforms being implemented to win support from the International Monetary Fund...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia in the early 1990s technically made Ethiopia the largest landlocked country in the world by population...
Ethiopian Airlines has once again secured the prestigious Best Airline in Africa title for the seventh consecutive year, along with several other notable accolades. Ethiopian Airlines...
The Belayneh Kinde Group has launched a new electric vehicle (EV) manufacturing plant in Debre Birhan, Ethiopia, with an investment of 3 billion Birr (US$52 million)....
Addis Standard | Ethiopia’s economy is on track for robust 7.9% growth in the current fiscal year, according to Minister of Planning and Development Fitsum Assefa....
By Gregory Simpkins The South China Morning Post reported on March 29, 2024 that by 2050, it is projected that only a quarter of countries in...
Reuters | Kenya has proposed a regional maritime treaty to defuse tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia over a deal allowing Ethiopia to set up a naval...
AP | Ethiopia’s biggest bank says it has recouped nearly 80 percent of the cash it lost during what it says was a glitch in its...
The memorandum of understanding signed between Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) and Hong Kong-based West Data Group’s Center Service PLC marks a significant step towards Ethiopia’s ambition...
Xinhua | The Ethiopian government has launched the construction of a vaccine manufacturing company, ShieldVax Enterprise, to stimulate local vaccine production for domestic consumption and export,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
By Gregory Simpkins It is said that necessity is the mother of invention but that desperate times call for desperate measures. Well Ethiopia has a desperate...
Reuters | Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister...
AFP | American Noah Lyles and Faith Kipyegon of Kenya were named track athletes of the year, World Athletics announced in Monaco on Monday. Lyles was...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the major reasons experts give for intrastate conflicts in Africa is the fact that states in the continent did not...
PRNewswire | Boeing and Ethiopian Airlines last week announced the carrier has agreed to order 11 787 Dreamliner and 20 737 MAX airplanes with an opportunity...
Reuters | Ethiopian Tamirat Tola crushed the competition to win the New York City Marathon in a course record 2 hours, 4 minutes and 58 seconds...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
By Gregory Simpkins One of the biggest stories in recent weeks has been the ongoing evolution of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), this...
By Zita Zage In recent years, the BRICS group of nations, consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, has emerged as a formidable presence...
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines will start manufacturing aircraft parts in a venture with Boeing at an initial cost of US$15 million, the government’s investment agency said...
Reuters | Safaricom’s M-Pesa mobile money service went live in Ethiopia on Wednesday, in a boost to the Kenyan telecoms operator as it seeks to kickstart...
Reuters | Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday discussed the Sudanese crisis, bilateral relations and Ethiopia’s giant dam on...
By Padraig Carmody A few years ago, the BRICS grouping – Brazil, Russia, China, India and South Africa – had lost salience because three of its...
Reuters | Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies, has asked to join the BRICS bloc of emerging markets, the foreign ministry said on Thursday. The term...
AFP | Ethiopia’s central bank said on Thursday it had issued a mobile money licence to Kenyan telecoms giant Safaricom, the first granted to a foreign...
ENA | The African Union Commission (AUC) Chairperson, Moussa Faki Mahamat extended the African Union’s honor to Ethiopia for its conviction to the principle of finding...
AFP | Ethiopia’s parliament on Wednesday removed the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) from an official list of terrorist groups, a key step in the...
Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange was invested as a Dame Grand Cross of the Imperial Order of the Star of Honour of Ethiopia. The investiture was...
Reuters | Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met senior leaders of the Tigray region forces on Friday for the first time since they signed a peace...
Bloomberg | Dissident forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region begun handing over heavy weapons to the national army, providing a major boost to efforts to end the...
The Government of Guyana is in discussions with Star Alliance network member and Africa’s largest airline, Ethiopian Airlines, to commence plying the Guyana route. This was...
By Gregory Simpkins The announcement of a so-called “permanent” cease-fire agreement in Ethiopia’s Tigray war sparked optimism among those outside Ethiopia, as well as those clinging...
Reuters | The Ethiopian government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough 2 years into a conflict that...
AP | Peace talks to end Ethiopia’s devastating Tigray conflict have begun in South Africa, a South African government spokesman said Tuesday. The spokesman for South...
AFP | Kenyan great Eliud Kipchoge has beaten his own world marathon record by 30 seconds, running 2hr 01min 10sec in Berlin on Sunday. At the...
Reuters | Ethiopia’s government has decided to open up the country’s banking sector to foreign investors, the prime minister’s office said on Saturday, the latest measure...
AFP | Ethiopian Airlines, the leading African flag carrier, on Wednesday reported a surge in profit for the last financial year, in sharp contrast to the...
Reuters | Ethiopia has completed the third phase of filling the reservoir for its huge dam on the Blue Nile river, the government said on Friday,...
By Gregory Simpkins The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) June Global Trends reported that by the end of 2021, the number of people displaced...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s wheat output will jump 70 percent this year as the populous Horn of Africa nation ramps up production to shelter itself from supply...
Reuters | State-owned operator Ethio Telecom launched a 5G mobile phone service on Monday in a key step ahead of competition from new entrants in an...
Press Release | Russom Woldemichael, owner and founder of shoe and leather goods company Barcon Getta, knows that a journey of a thousand miles begins with...
Reuters | Ethiopia said on Friday it had decided to postpone the planned partial privatization of state-owned telecoms firm Ethio Telecom because of the prevailing economic...
By Weiwei Chen Common perceptions about Chinese engagement in Africa are that it is one-dimensional and sometimes biased. One common problem with this perception is the...
AFP | Ethiopia will start generating power from its “controversial” mega-dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday, government officials told AFP. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Khartoum Yibeltal Aemero Alemu said Sudan and Ethiopia reached an agreement to peacefully resolve the border dispute. Yibeltal did not specify when bilateral...
Reuters | Ethiopian Airlines is due to resume flying the Boeing 737 MAX plane on Tuesday, but opinions are divided on the airline’s first flight using...
Bloomberg | Ethiopia’s council of ministers lifted a state of emergency in the Horn of Africa nation on Wednesday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s office said. “The...
By Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
Reuters | After a century and a half hidden in private collections, 13 stolen Ethiopian artefacts have finally returned home following months of negotiations. “Our country’s...
As negotiators at the Glasgow climate talks try to agree on greenhouse gas cuts, African leaders say poorer countries can’t be expected to remake their systems...
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
By David Walwyn The lack of vaccine production capacity in African countries has been the subject of much concern and hand-wringing in the wake of the...
By Hisham Eldardiry Since Ethiopia announced the construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in 2011, there have been disagreements between Egypt and Ethiopia on...
Kenya’s dominance however has historically been tested by Ethiopians. More recently, the challenge comes from the emergence of Uganda, cementing the place of East Africa as...
Reuters | U.N. Security Council members on Thursday backed African Union mediation efforts between Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan in a dispute over the operation of a...
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By Allan Olingo Two years ago, at a breakfast in Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, hosted by Kenya-based Equity Bank, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said his country...
Ethiopia’s financial sector was the center of discussion last week at a summit organized in the country’s capital, Addis Ababa, under the auspices of The Economist...
U.S. President Barack Obama landed in Ethiopia on Sunday, beginning a two-day stay and becoming the first American leader to visit Africa’s second most populous nation....
By Jake Bright As entrepreneurship takes off in countries like Kenya and Ethiopia, the U.S. President Barack Obama will be looking for more ways to boost...
East African governments are betting big on new railway and port projects to boost the regional market’s competitiveness with Asia. After years of neglect, East Africa’s...
The Dangote Group on Thursday (one day ahead of schedule) opened a US$500 million cement plant in Ethiopia, one of Africa’s fastest-growing economies where a construction...
Ethiopia plans to begin exporting renewable energy to a broader range of neighboring nations by 2018 as part of a cross-border effort to meet regional energy...
At a cost of US$4.8 billion, it is an audacious project undertaken by one of the fastest growing countries in Africa. At the construction site in...
Pre-revenue testing of the Addis Ababa light rail transit was launched on Monday February 2. The ceremony, which inaugurated the system – the first of its...
By Jeffrey Cavanaugh Early last month Ethiopia marked a remarkable milestone in its history. Thirty years ago the country was in the grip of a deadly,...
AGOA allows 6,400 products from eligible Sub-Saharan African countries to enter the United States duty free. In 2013, according to US Department of Commerce, United States...
Visa Inc., which is piloting Ethiopia’s first international debit card, is seeking to persuade the government to ease tight restrictions on banks in an effort to...
The government has a mission to use a strong state to build infrastructure and develop the industrial and agricultural sectors. It argues that it could repeat the...
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has called for an expeditious approval and deployment of a regional deterrence and protection force to end ongoing violations of the...
Ethiopia on Tuesday received a $250 million dollar loan from the World Bank to finance the implementation of a competitiveness and job creation project in the...
Spearheading the government’s interventions in the farming sector, the Agricultural Transformation Agency has already vastly improved yields for wheat and teff. Every successful developmental state in...
The managers of Ethiopian Airlines have an ambitious expansion plan to be implemented by 2025 that involves more training and new infrastructure. Currently, Ethiopian Airlines is...
The Ethiopian government has welcomed the positive credit ratings the country got last week saying it will help it access international finance. Credit ratings agency Fitch...
As companies rush to secure their claim on Ethiopia’s mineral riches, the government is keen to show it supports international transparency measures. Ethiopia is in the...
When it comes to acronyms of the global economy, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have repeatedly represented Africa. They show up in acronyms coined by economists and...
Ethiopia received its first credit ratings on Friday, paving the way for a possible debut sovereign debt issue which would give investors another route into Africa’s...
South Sudan Refugees are pouring into Ethiopia following the capture of Nasir town by government forces, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees said. UNHCR on...
Ethiopia has received a $380 million World Bank loan to help improve the capacity of its urban councils through expansion of infrastructure and services. The board...
China and Ethiopia have siged more than a dozen agreements aimed at shoring up burgeoning ties between the world’s second-largest economy and the African continent that...
Ethiopia expects to get its first sovereign credit ratings within two weeks, Finance and Economic Development Minister Sufian Ahmed said, paving the way for the country’s...
South Sudan’s warring factions resume face-to-face peace talks on Thursday; the third such effort this year. The resumption of negotiations coincides with U.S. Secretary of State...
Ethiopia’s bold decision to pay for a huge dam itself has overturned generations of Egyptian control over the Nile’s waters, and may help transform one of...
The Ethiopian government says the country’s economy will grow by 11.3 percent this year. Ethiopia’s economy grew by 9.7 percent during the 2012/13 financial year and...
Imran Yawar, Pakistan’s ambassador-designate to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and permanent observer to African Union (AU), called on President Mamnoon Hussain at the Aiwan-e-Sadr...
African banks are set to maximize on trade finance space left by European lenders due to tough capital requirements. However, bureaucracy and inadequate research are two...
Ethiopia’s leading private oil marketer plans to expand into neighboring east African economies and is interested in part financing a refinery after commercial discoveries in the...
The coffee sector is beginning to resemble the wine market, with buyers willing to pay a premium for crops that reflect local climates and harvesting techniques....
Peace talks between South Sudan’s warring parties have been adjourned again to allow both sides to consult with their respective leaders, the Intergovernmental Authority for Development...
Climate Innovation Center (CIC), a clean technology revolution, has started operations in Ethiopia and is expected to deploy and develop climate friendly technologies. Spearheaded by Infodev,...
The eruption of fighting in South Sudan brought East Africa’s political crises into sharp focus at a time of optimism about the region’s economic take-off. Undaunted,...
The Africa Group (TAG), a US-based boutique advisor and venture capital investor, has acquired a 25 percent stake in Telemed Medical Services (Telemed), an Ethiopian engineering...
A water expert from the AUC University in Cairo has confirmed that Ethiopia’s hydroelectric dam will not hurt Egypt’s share of the Nile waters. According to...
Ethiopia’s National Council has announced that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), currently being constructed over the Blue Nile, would start generating 700 megawatts of electricity...
At Meskel Square, in the heart of Addis Ababa, traffic is even more chaotic than usual as cars, buses and pedestrians weave around the 5.5m-high pillars...
Despite Africa’s rich oil and gas reserves, environmental concerns and the high cost of the infrastructure needed to extract and refine hydrocarbons are driving a push...
A new generation of business leaders are investing in Africa’s capacity to manufacture cars, process minerals and build equipment. Some governments are now looking for ways...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
The UAE and Ethiopia have held talks on joint investment projects in Ethiopia’s industry, agriculture, food processing, tourism, renewable energy and mining sectors. The intensive talks...
Industrialist Manu Chandaria urged Kenyan businesses to venture into the Ethiopian market in order to reap big from one of the fastest growing economy globally. “Ethiopia...
East African states agreed on Thursday to deploy troops in South Sudan by mid-April to help enforce a ceasefire deal between government forces and rebels, the...
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has promised to revive stagnant economic relations with Ethiopia during a visit aimed at strengthening cooperation between the two East African economies....
East African leaders will meet in Ethiopia on Thursday to discuss the mandate and size of a stabilization and protection force to be deployed in...
A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) stated that the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state...
Peace talks, aimed at ending nearly two months of fighting in South Sudan, are under threat after rebels refused to take part in the next round...
On Monday, peace negotiations between South Sudan’s warring factions will begin in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, according to Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Dina Mufti. Officials indicate that...
South Sudanese rivals started peace talks on Tuesday in a bid to end the conflict that has left the world’s newest state on the brink of...
Ashegoda Wind Farm. PHOTO/File From the sky, the 84 glimmering white turbines at Ashegoda wind farm shoot up from the ground like massive spokes, standing out...
Ethiopia has began the process of repatriating its citizens living in Saudi Arabia illegally, after reports that an Ethiopian was killed by police, officials said Saturday....
(Reuters) – Ethiopia has commissioned Africa’s biggest wind farm – Ashegoda Wind Farm, and in the process diversified electricity generation from hydropower plants and places the...
(AFP) – Ethiopia unveiled last Friday the first phase of a space exploration program, which includes East Africa’s largest observatory designed to promote astronomy research in...
Aliko Dangote – Founder and Chairman of The Dangote Group Nigerian entrepreneur Aliko Dangote, plans to spend US$350 million to build a new cement plant in...
By Nicholas Norbrook Governments across the continent are looking for new development models after the policies of privatization and liberalization seem to have run their course....
(Reuters) – Ethiopia’s economy is likely to grow 7 percent a year over the next three to five years, below its average of the last decade,...
Churchill Road – Addis Ababa | Ethiopia A few short years ago, while one prepared to land at Bole Airport, Addis Ababa, they saw a dearth...
(Reuters) – Seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa, have cut the number of new HIV infections in children by 50 percent since 2009, the United Nations AIDS...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. IMAGE/Boeing (Reuters) – Ethiopian Airlines is set to become the world’s first carrier to resume flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger...
Omar al-Bashir and Salva Kiir try to push forward on stalled security, oil and border agreements.
Newly sworn in Ethiopia Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/Khaled Elfiqi/EPA Ethiopia’s parliament swore in a new prime minister on Friday. Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn succeeds former...
Ethiopia Prime Minister-designate Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/Khaled Elfiqi/EPA (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s ruling coalition on Saturday approved Hailemariam Desalegn’s appointment as prime minister to replace Meles Zenawi, who...
Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn. PHOTO/World Economic Forum The death of Ethiopia’s prime minister pushed his relatively unknown successor, Hailemariam Desalegn, into the spotlight on...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s long-time ruler,...
Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba during the IAAF Diamond League Prefontaine Classic on July 3, 2010 at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. PHOTO/File Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia put...
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi at a session of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, January 26, 2012. PHOTO/Christian Hartmann/Reuters The government of Ethiopia revealed...
Washington DC is the capital city of the world’s biggest economy. It is also the place many countries come to make or break themselves. Some African...
Ethiopia has denied accreditation to what would have been the country’s first Islamic banking service, citing new banking and terrorism laws. Zam-Zam Bank applied for a...
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, right, reviews an honour guard with Chinese President Hu Jintao. PHOTO/Alexander F. Yuan/AP The president of the world’s newest nation, South...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A growing middle class has fueled Africa’s fast-growing consumer market driving the regional economy, according to...
Sudan on Wednesday asked Ethiopia to intervene in its latest conflict with South Sudan, which has heightened fears of a fresh war. Sudan president Omar Al...
Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa, among them Uganda and Ethiopia, according to UK-based economic experts Ernst & Young. According to...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
The Eritrean government said Friday that the attack on its military outposts by neighboring Ethiopia was meant to divert attention from a border dispute between the...
Presidents Mwai Kibaki, South Sudan’s Salva Kiir Mayardit and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi lay foundation for the new port. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya, Ethiopia and South...
Ethiopia will soon launch an information and communication technology (ICT) park, becoming the second East African nation, after Kenya, to do so. The ambitious project, known...
(The Africa Report) – The biggest cement factory in Ethiopia, worth US$600 million was inaugurated on Sunday, at a time when the Horn of Africa country...
A court in Ethiopia convicted two Swedish journalists Wednesday of supporting terrorism after the pair illegally entered the country with an ethnic Somali rebel group. The...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia signed an agreement with a Chinese state-run firm to build the final section of a railway line that will link its capital Addis...
Haile Gebrselassie crossing the finish line at the Berlin Marathon in Sept. 2008.PHOTO/Wolfgang Kumm/European Pressphoto Agency Haile Gebrselassie sets the pace on the track and in...
Ethiopia said Friday it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents. East African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital of...
Double Olympic Champion, Marathon World Record holder, Haile Gebrselassie (pictured), will take on the Berlin Marathon this weekend. He will target a fast time rather than...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali rapper K’naan has brought his waving flag back home to help his countrymen as they struggle with a devastating famine. The Somali-Canadian...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — A Heineken official says the Netherlands-based company has signed a deal to buy two state-owned Ethiopian breweries. Tom de Man, Heineken president...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian officials say they will not heed the U.N.’s recommendation to halt construction on a dam that the world body says endangers...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — An Ethiopian official says nine people were arrested last week on suspicions of organizing a terrorist network and planning attacks. Government spokesman...
