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...
With over 100 million people, Ethiopia is easily the most populous landlocked country on earth. When Eritrea seceded in 1993, Ethiopia lost access to its coastline, impeding its economic growth and limiting the nation’s ambitions of becoming a regional hegemon. No...
Department for International Development will no longer back $4.9bn project that critics claim has funded a brutal resettlement programme The UK has ended its financial support for a controversial development project alleged to have helped the Ethiopian government fund a...
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The Ethiopian federal experiment was both a political necessity and the expression of the Ethiopian peoples’ desire to close a chaotic chapter of poverty and conflict and start a peaceful and prosperous new journey. The federal system that Ethiopia...
Grain from U.S. aid is unloaded from a ship and bagged at the Port of Berbera in Somaliland, Aug. 31, 2021. (AFP Photo) BY DIDENUR DAŞTAN Türkiye could act as a mediator should a recent controversial port deal between Ethiopia and...
Around 60 more humanitarian workers from the UN and non-governmental organizations are awaiting approval in the capital Addis Ababa for deployment to Tigray NEW YORK, United States of America, February 9, 2021/ -- UN agencies have received approval from the...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s government has announced that its forces will not advance deeper into the Tigray region. Ethiopian forces have been ordered to maintain the areas they have won back from the Tigray People's Liberation Force, but not...
Ethiopian Protestant (Pentay) Christians in Addis Ababa accused VOA Amharic journalists of religious defamation in reporting the recent controversy of the renowned singer & Pastor Tekeste Getnet. According to local Christian magazine of hiwot Berhan, churchgoers overwhelmingly showed sympathy...
The standard harmonization process has been prepared by the technical harmonization committee (THC) of the two standard bodies. The committee is comprised of technical experts from regulatory, manufacturer, standards bodies, private business, professional associations, and conformity assessment enterprises. The...