By almariam On September 11, 2016
September 11, 2016 is the beginning of the 2009 Ethiopian New Year (Meskerem 1, Ethiopian Calendar ).
It is painful for me to utter the words, “Happy Ethiopian New Year- 2009” (Melkam Adis Amet) this new year.
2008...
09 Sep 2016
Addis Ababa September 09/2016 The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the cooperation between Ethiopia and Somaliland in the areas of development and education will be further strengthened.
While conferring with Somaliland Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Saad...
Americans have no monopoly on heroes. Olympic heroes, that is.
On August 21, 2016, Feyisa Lelisa, the 26-year-old Ethiopian long distance runner at the Rio Olympics repeated an act that was once described as the “the most overtly political statement...
Tens of thousands of anti-government protestors in Adama city of Oromia, Ethiopia marched on Saturday
. Local media reported that the protestors were showing solidarity with the Gondar and Oromo protestors.
Video of the Adama protests have went viral online, with...
For a long time, Ethiopia was known as a country that needed others. But the tables appear to have turned. Now other countries need Ethiopia.
By James Jeffrey
For the last 25 years, while the Horn of Africa (including Djibouti, Eritrea,...
Local media sources from the northern Ethiopian province of Gondar say 20 people have died, including eight officers, in the ongoing border dispute between Tigray and Amhara regions. The violence began when the federal government, taking the side of...
A U.S. financed para-military force known as the Liyu police are terrorizing the civilian population in the eastern Ethiopian Somali region with impunity. Three weeks ago, out of the gaze of the international media, the Liyu (Amharic for (“Special") police slaughtered more than...
After Ethiopia’s terrifying paramilitary forces known as Liyu (new) police massacred twenty one civilians and abducted dozens more in Jama-dubad village, in Hawd region of Ethiopia, on the first day of the holy month of Ramadan, June 06, 2016,...
Ethiopia’s Communications minister, Getachew Reda, and the Oromo Democratic Front’s Lencho Bati speak with ‘UpFront’:
• Reda says, “The government is more than ready to welcome ODF” into Ethiopia and “I don’t see any problem for to come here”
• Claims that...
A man from disputed Badme poses in front of a tank abandoned during the 1998-2000 Ethiopia-Eritrea war. The risk of a fresh war is remote. Reuters/Ed Harris
International attention has once again been drawn to the fraught relationship between...