Ethiopia

Ethiopia and the United States have agreed to strengthen their relations, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Wednesday after hosting U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, as both sides sought to mend the diplomatic damage caused by the…

Ethiopian authorities have called on the US ambassador over comments President Trump made over the Ethiopia and Egypt’s dispute about the filling and operation of a massive hydropower dam.President Trump had called for an agreement…

Ethiopia has banned all flights over an enormous dam it is constructing on the Blue Nile River.While citing security reasons, the head of its civil aviation authority quoted the country’s president as saying that the project would start…

Ethiopia has rejected the agreement on Renaissance DamEgyptian and Ethiopian officials released separate statements to express the divergence between the two sides.While disclosing this on Sunday August 9, 2020, Ethiopia stated that it…

At a new round of talks hosted by the African Union around Ethiopia’s filling of its Blue Nile dam, Egypt and Sudan have criticized Ethiopia for unilaterally filling the dam, which it says is to generate electricity for its people.The…

Ethiopia's Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, Seleshi Bekele, has announced that Ethiopia has begun filling of the Grand Renaissance Dam on the Blue Nile.The giant hydroelectric project which was halted as talks with Sudan and…

The death toll from demonstrations and ethnic violence that erupted in Ethiopia following the murder of a popular singer, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, has risen to 239, according to police.Pop star, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, from the Oromo ethnic…

The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund (ADF) has on 3rd July approved a grant of $165.08 million to support Ethiopia’s response to the health and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, including helping to ease fiscal…

The Government of Japan has provided a new grant aid to Ethiopia, which is worth over USD 4 million, through its partnership with UNICEF Ethiopia as part of its emergency assistance for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.The…

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the UN Communications Group have provided awareness materials to the government of Ethiopia.The essence of the provision, according to the bodies, was to ensure that ordinary citizens have…

In a bid to control the spread of coronavirus, the Ethiopian President, Sahle-Work Zewde, has pardoned over 4000 prisoners in the country.This was disclosed by the President through her Twitter handle on Wednesday March 25th, 2020.The…

The government of Israel has suspended the airlift and naturalization of more than 250 Ethiopian scheduled for this month.The Israel government that initially approved airlifting of the Ethiopians on three flights before the end of the…

The Ethiopian Governmentp, with support from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is scaling up aerial and ground operations in Oromia and Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ (SNNP) regions to control…

Ethiopia government has officially announced its intention to release a number of high-profile prisoners in a sincere attempt to entrench “national good” in the country.Zinabu Tunu, the Attorney General's spokesperson, disclosed this in…

Ethiopia’s Water, Irrigation and Energy Ministry has withdrawn from US trilateral talk on Nile Dam.The country has declined to be part of the talks on the $5billion hydropower project holding in Washington.The United States has…