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...
Meskerem is the first month in Ethiopia’s unique 13-month calendar. Ethiopia celebrates its New Year on the first day of Meskerem, which falls on September 12 of the internationally recognised Gregorian calendar. But amid the celebrations, there are still concerns about the country’s...
The plane had been carrying humanitarian and medical supplies to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus. Ethiopia on Saturday admitted it was behind the shooting down of a privately owned Kenyan plane in Somalia earlier this week, resulting...
By Fred Morton In September 1888, the HMS Osprey serving in the Royal Navy’s anti-slave trade mission in the Red Sea, based in Aden, intercepted three dhows embarked from Rahayta and Tadjoura on the Ethiopia coast. Aboard were 204 boys and...
Abdirahman Mahdi, the Ogaden National Liberation Front’s (ONLF) foreign secretary, talks to Al Jazeera’s Martine Dennis After 30 years of unsuccessful protests, even violence, Mahdi denies it is time for Ethiopia’s Somali rebel group ONLF to give up their dream...
The Ethiopian Defense War College-DWC first batch of graduates includes two Somaliland officers. The ceremony was witnessed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed along with senior Ethiopian military officers which 38 career military officers from various backgrounds become the first to...
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People walk through Megenagna neighbourhood bus station in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia November 3, 2021. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo Friday, November 5, 2021 By Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) - Rebellious forces from Ethiopia's Tigray region have pushed to within a day's drive of the...
Ethiopia seemingly treating publication of the map that shows Somalia as part of Ethiopia as suspicious and has started an investigation into it. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia has apologized on Monday for a map of Africa that is not...