December 31, 2022
Ethiopia: Measles Vaccination Drive Targets More Than 15 Million Children
UN agencies, the Ethiopian authorities and other partners kicked off on Friday, a nationwide integrated measles vaccination campaign targeting more than 15 million children. Read more »
Ethiopia: Govt Loses Second Bid to Defund UN Rights Experts
Ethiopia's draft resolution requesting the Fifth Committee of the UN General Assembly to not approve any resources for the International Commission of Human Rights Experts on… Read more »
December 29, 2022
Ethiopia: Emotions Burst As Tigrayan Families Disconnected By Blockade Meet Loved Ones in Mekelle
Scenes of ululations, tight hugs and kisses, prayers, tears and gasps. These were emotions visibly displayed when civilian passengers on board Ethiopian Airlines' first commercial… Read more »
December 28, 2022
Ethiopia: Ethiopia Army Chief Leads Delegation to Türkiye, Meet Counterpart, Tours Defense Tech Industries
A delegation led by Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), is visiting Türkiye where he met and discussed with his… Read more »
December 27, 2022
Ethiopia: Authorities Withhold Over U.S.$20 Million In Alleged Illegal Foreign Currency
Ethiopian Financial Intelligence Service (FIS) said it has suspended more than US$20 million which it said was allegedly accumulated in illegally collected foreign currency. Read more »
December 26, 2022
Ethiopia: Over 300 Covid Health Workers Dismissed From Their Jobs Send Complaint Letter to PM Abiy
About 340 health professionals have sent a letter of complaint to the Prime Minister's Office arguing that the ministry of health dismissed them after three years' service on… Read more »
Ethiopia: Parliament Speaker Leads First High-Level Federal Officials Delegation to Mekelle
A high level delegation of federal government officials led by Tagesse Chafo, Speaker of the House People's representatives (HoPR) is headed to the capital of Tigray regional… Read more »
December 23, 2022
Ethiopia: Education Cannot Wait Announces U.S.$5 Million Grant in Response to Drought i
In response to a devastating drought that has impacted 1.6 million children, taken lives and pushed millions into hunger, Education Cannot Wait (ECW) announced today a US$5 million… Read more »
December 22, 2022
Ethiopia: Two Killed, Seven Injured in Dispute Over Borehole Drilling in Somali Region
Two people were killed and seven others were severely injured in Shilabo district of Korahe zone, in the Somali regional state, on Tuesday in a dispute after local authorities… Read more »
Somalia: Why It Is Time to 'Africanize' Somaliland's Foreign Policy
Few of us were surprised by the fact that the United States did not invite Somaliland and Eritrea to the U.S - Africa Leaders meeting, which was concluded last week in Washington… Read more »
Ethiopia: Amidst Growing Calls to Resolve Oromia Conflict Peacefully, Govt. Gears to Conduct 'Organized Law Enforcement Measures'
The Oromia regional state has announced that it is preparing to take an "organized law enforcement measure" against rebel group Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) which it refers to as… Read more »
Ethiopia: Red Cross Unable to Deliver Services in Tigray
Ethiopian Red Cross Tigray branch office has said it is unable to deliver its services to drought and conflict-stricken people in the Tigray due to scarcity of medicine and… Read more »
December 21, 2022
Ethiopia: Oromo and Amhara: the Quest for Transethnic Solidarity and Its Discontents
In Greater Ethiopia: The Evolution of a Multinational State, Donald Levine presents the Oromo and Amhara as two dominant ethnic groups who have taken turns in shaping Greater… Read more »
East Africa: Ethiopia Secures Release of Six Djiboutian Soldiers Kidnapped By Armed Group
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs told state media that the Ethiopian government has secured the release peacefully of six Djiboutian soldiers who were held hostage by the FRUD… Read more »
Ethiopia: Incessant Cement Supply Crisis BoGs Ethiopia Leaving Countless Workers Reel in Despair - Govt Hopes to Fine-Tune Chaos
The normalcy of cement production and distribution has fallen under impediments since the past three years in general, and past six months in particular, leaving significant number… Read more »
Ethiopia: CBE Resumes Banking Services in Three Tigray Cities, but Access to Savings, Cash Withdrawal Off Limit
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) said it has reopened branches and resumed banking services in Shire, Alamata and Korem, allowing people to deposit money and receive funds sent to… Read more »
Ethiopia: CPJ Demands Unconditional Release of Meskerem Abera, Cease Harassment On Members of Press
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday "Ethiopian police should unconditionally release online journalist Meskerem Abera and cease harassing members of the press." Read more »
Ethiopia: Federal, Tigray Senior Military Commanders Meet in Nairobi
Representatives of the Ethiopian federal government and Tigrayan senior commanders are meeting in Nairobi at the Moran Training Center in Karen, Nairobi, Kenya for a consultative… Read more »
December 20, 2022
Ethiopia: 'It Feels As If George Orwell Wrote About What Oromos Continue to Go Through... ' - Translating 'Animal Farm' Into Afaan Oromoo
Amenti Bonja was born in East Shewa zone of Oromia, in a rural area called Qilee Dooyyoo, where he spent the first seven years of his life. He started his first grade education at… Read more »
Ethiopia: Fitch Downgrades Ethiopia to 'CCC-' - Removes From Under Criteria Observation
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Ethiopia: How Killing of Professor Unfolded, Led to U.S.$2 Billion Lawsuit Against Meta
Meareg Amare Abreha, 60, a father of four children, and a full-time Professor of Analytical Chemistry at Bahir Dar University, was shot dead in front of his residence around midday… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Ethiopia: Tigray Leader Blames Federal Govt for Slow Implementation of Peace Agreement, Obstructing Humanitarian Aid
Leader of Tigray Regional State, Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD), said on Sunday that although his side has been implementing the Pretoria and Nairobi peace pact since it was signed,… Read more »
December 16, 2022
Ethiopia: Oromia Security Situation 'Fast Deteriorating, As Thousands Displaced, Essential Services Not Functional: UN
A new report by the United Nation's Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says humanitarian delivery to people in need in the Oromia regional state is "fast… Read more »
Ethiopia: Federal Police Detain Meskerem Abera, Again - Request 14 More Days to File Charges of Multiple Offences
The Federal Police in Addis Abeba detained, for the second time, Meskerem Abera, founder and owner of "Ethio Niqat", a YouTube based media where she frequently appears, on 14… Read more »
Ethiopia: New Amnesty Report Reveals Ethiopian Migrants Forcibly Returned After Detention in Abhorrent Conditions in Saudi Arabia
A new report by Amnesty International revealed that Saudi authorities are forcibly returning hundreds of thousands of Ethiopian migrants after arbitrarily holding them in… Read more »