Street trader Nigusu Mahari, an ethnnic Tigrayan, was arrested last year. REUTERS/Stringer
Police arrested Tigrayan street trader Nigusu Mahari last year as he strolled along the traffic-clogged streets of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. He says he was speaking on the...
Somaliland vies to tap into Ethiopia’s growing port needs
85 percent of the construction of the cross-boundary road project which links Somaliland's port city of Berbera with Ethiopia's border town of Togochale has been completed.
The road is expected to make...
Local militias have retreated from major towns (file photo)
Local militias who have been fighting against government troops in Ethiopia’s turbulent Amhara region have retreated from some of the major cities.
Residents in the region’s two biggest cities, the capital Bahir...
At a time when Israel’s shipping through Red Sea has been blocked by Ansarallah in Yemen, control over the coast of Somaliland to its south across the Gulf of Aden, has become strategically crucial for Western powers, Elias Amare,...
Jigjiga—Security forces of the Somali Regional State (SRS) beat and detained at least 31 prominent elders of the town of Yu’ub, in the province of Werder, according to residents.
The detention of the prominent members of the Yu’ub community comes...
By almariam
Author’s Note: In this commentary, I shall argue the Egyptian Government is in the first phase of its PROXY WAR against Ethiopia with the short-term strategic objective of sabotaging the scheduled July initial filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam...
Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki (left), Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (right) and Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.
Relations in the Horn of Africa are complex and complicated. They are characterised by deeply ingrained rivalries between Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Somalia in a conflict-ridden...
by Dr. Suleiman Walhad
Ethiopia was in a civil war for over forty years now, though the world believes it started only some nine months ago. The TPLF or the Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front started as a liberation movement in...
The Federal Republic of Ethiopia, today, sent a federal-level delegation of ministers to Somaliland to show its empathy with the people of Somaliland at an hour they needed sympathetic shoulders following the devastating fire that gutted the Hargeisa business...
The MOU includes wide scopes of cooperation in social, economic, political and military fields.
Following the scramble for Africa, Somaliland remained under British colonial rule and gained its independence on June 26, 1960. It is to be recalled that at...