January 26
Ethiopia: Ethiopia to Double Air Force Capacity By 2030, PM Warns Regional and Global Actors Against Challenging National Interests
Ethiopia plans to double the capacity of its Air Force and transition to fifth-generation combat capabilities by 2030, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced, issuing a stern warning… Read more »
January 24
Ethiopia: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Says He Cannot Intervene in Revoked Deutsche Welle Reporters' Licenses
Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gedion Timotheos (PhD) said he cannot intervene in the case of two Deutsche Welle (DW) reporters whose licenses were permanently revoked by… Read more »
January 23
Ethiopia: Ethiopia, Belarus Sign Military MOU Ahead of Air Force's 90th Anniversary
Ethiopia and Belarus have signed a bilateral memorandum of understanding (MoU) aimed at strengthening military cooperation between the two countries, the Ethiopian National Defense… Read more »
Ethiopia: IMF-Backed Forex Reforms Cost Ethiopia $2.6 Billion in Central Bank Losses
Ethiopia's central bank, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), has recorded losses equivalent to $2.6 billion following the country's shift from a fixed to a market-based foreign… Read more »
Ethiopia: Cost of Modernizing Addis - When Progress Pushes Small Businesses Out
Ethiopia is changing--fast, visibly, and in ways that deserve recognition. Digitalization is spreading across everyday life, and Addis Abeba is undergoing one of the most ambitious… Read more »
Ethiopia: Germany Reaffirms Support for Ethiopia's Peace Building, Pretoria Agreement During FM Wadephul's Visit
German Federal Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul (Phd) has reaffirmed Germany's support for Ethiopia's peacebuilding efforts and the full implementation of the Pretoria Peace… Read more »
November 08, 2025
Djibouti: Djibouti At a Crossroads - the Presidential Transition Crisis Ahead of April 2026 Elections
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December 09, 2025
Ethiopia: Peace On Paper, Pain in Reality - Tigray's Forgotten Suffering, Struggle for Justice
When the guns finally fell silent in the northern part of Ethiopia in late 2022, global attention quickly shifted elsewhere. Yet the war in Tigray remains one of the deadliest and… Read more »
December 26, 2025
Ethiopia: In Tigray, Starvation Has Replaced Shells As a Weapon of War. This Ruin Must End!
The deaths now reported from Tigray's internally displaced persons (IDP) camps are neither sudden nor unforeseeable. They are the cumulative result of political failure, economic… Read more »
December 31, 2025
Sudan: 'We Have Received Nothing': More Than 3,800 Sudan Returnees Left Without Aid At Abiy Addi IDP Center
More than 3,800 internally displaced households who returned from Sudan due to ongoing instability are living without humanitarian assistance at the Abiy Addi IDP center in Tigray,… Read more »
January 05
Ethiopia: No Peace Without Truth - How Denial Corrodes Ethiopia's Path to Transitional Justice
In the aftermath of the war in Tigray, which began in November 2020 and formally subsided in late 2022 without true resolution or any accountability, Ethiopia faces an existential… Read more »
January 22
Ethiopia: Alarm Raised Over Alleged Arbitrary Detentions and Disappearances in Tigray
Human Rights First has raised concern over what it described as a deteriorating human rights situation in the Tigray region, citing multiple allegations of arbitrary detention,… Read more »
January 12
Ethiopia: Ethiopia's Banking Sector Transition to Basel II and III - Critical Assessment of NBE's New Directive
In November 2025, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a risk-based capital adequacy requirements directive for banks. Directive No. SBB/95/2025 has given recognition for… Read more »
January 14
Ethiopia: Politics of Performance - Ethiopia's Education Crisis, PM Abiy's 'Intellectual' Puzzle
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's tenure reveals a political project that is not merely developmental but profoundly performative and epistemological. His emergence has done one thing… Read more »
January 13
Ethiopia: Self-Determination for Some, Denied for Others - Somaliland and Politics of Selective Recognition
From the liberation struggles of the 20th century to today's diplomatic flashpoints, the right of peoples to choose their political destiny has inspired countless movements and… Read more »
January 15
Ethiopia: News - Ethiopian Federal Police Allege Eritrean Link in Ammunition Seizure Amid Tensions
Addis Abeba--Ethiopian Federal Police says it has seized nearly 57,000 rounds of ammunition in Woldia town, Amhara region, alleging that the consignment originated from Eritrea and… Read more »
Ethiopia: Analysis - Ethiopia's Food Insecurity Remains Acute As Over 15 Million Face Urgent Aid Needs By July 2026: Famine Early Warning Systems Warns
Ethiopia is expected to remain among the five countries with the largest populations in need of urgent humanitarian food assistance by mid-2026, even as overall food assistance… Read more »
Ethiopia: Lingering Scourge of War - Unexploded Ordnance, Landmines Continue Endangering Women and Girls in Tigray
Almost four years after the end of the war that devastated Ethiopia's Tigray region, civilians continue to pay a heavy price--not on the battlefield, but in their homes, fields,… Read more »
January 16
Ethiopia: Interview - From OFC to a New Party
"Boycotting elections is handing the field to the ruling party for free; the political reality of Oromia demands determined participation, not abandonment of the field." Read more »
Ethiopia: Editorial - From Promise to Precarity: Ethiopia's Foreign Policy Drift and the Imperative of Strategic Reversal
When Ethiopia's prime minister received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, it reflected global optimism that one of the Horn of Africa's pivotal states had chosen institutional peace… Read more »
January 17
Ethiopia: National Interests Vs Political Pretense - Deconstructing Regional Opposition to Somaliland's Recognition
In late 2025, Israel officially announced its recognition of Somaliland, a self-declared independent region in northern Somalia that has asserted its sovereignty since 1991 but… Read more »
January 20
Ethiopia: A Ten Minute Mission - the Least Price for Freedom By W. Hundee Hurrisoo
Memoirs of political imprisonment often provide a disturbing window into the cruelty of particular regimes, but W. Hundee Hurrisoo's 'A Ten Minute Mission: The Least Price for… Read more »
January 21
Ethiopia: Map Catches Up to Reality - Why Israel Chose Somaliland's Sovereignty Over Somalia's Dependency
Diplomacy prides itself on nuance, yet there are moments when nuance collapses under the weight of geography. Israel's recognition of Somaliland was not a symbolic flourish; it was… Read more »
Ethiopia: News - Report Tracks UAE-Linked Cargo Flights to Ethiopian Military Base Amid Regional Power Struggle
A cargo aircraft previously linked to the supply of weapons to armed groups in Sudan has conducted multiple flights to Ethiopia in recent weeks, according to an exclusive… Read more »
Ethiopia: Silence of Scholars, Absence of Intellectual Freedom - Hypocrisy, Moral Vacuum in PM Abiy's AAU Lecture
A few weeks ago, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed delivered a lecture on the role of intellectuals in society as part of the celebrations marking Addis Ababa University's 75th… Read more »
