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Two Ethiopians have filed a lawsuit against Facebook’s parent company, Meta, over hate speech accusing the US tech giant of enabling violent and hateful posts from Ethiopia to flourish on Facebook, inflaming the country’s bloody civil war in Tigray region. Filed in Kenya, home to the platform’s content moderation operations related to Ethiopia, the lawsuit […]
The capital of the Tigray region has been reconnected to Ethiopia’s national power grid after more than a year cut off due to the war in this northern region of Ethiopia. The announcement by the national electricity company comes just over a month after the signing of a peace agreement between the Tigrayan rebels and […]
A convoy carrying medical supplies arrived Tuesday (15 November) in the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, the first shipment of international aid to reach the region following a cease-fire and a peace deal agreed by the country’s federal government and Tigrayan forces earlier this month. “The first ICRC medical supplies have just arrived in Mekele […]
Launched in 2019 by the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and its partners, the Desert to Power initiative to increase solar generation capacity to provide 250 million people with electricity access across Africa’s Sahel region for socio-economic development continues to attract financial support from around the world. The Desert to Power initiative is designed to […]
Ethiopia’s government and Tigray regional representatives began a new round of talks Monday (7 November) to work out military and other details of last week’s signing of a “permanent” cessation of hostilities in a two-year conflict thought to have killed hundreds of thousands of people. Last week, the federal government and Tigray regional forces agreed […]
Ethiopia’s announcement of a cessation of hostilities between the government and the rebels in Tigray after over a week of negotiations led by the African Union in Pretoria, South Africa has been hailed by the United Nations as “a very welcome first step“ and as a “major breakthrough“ by Washington, while other world leaders are […]
Ethiopia has awarded a Pan-African prize to late King Hassan II of Morocco in recognition of his contributions to the establishment of the African Union and his dedication to the emancipation of Africa and to Pan-Africanism. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presented the award to the speaker of the Moroccan House of Representative on Tuesday […]
The economies of East Africa face rather bleak prospects for growth this year because of the increasing risk of debt distress, widening fiscal and current deficits and limited economic diversification plans, according to the latest forecast by the African Development Bank (AfDB). The AfDB forecasts the region’s GDP at 4% this year, before recovering to […]
At least 50 companies are expected to list on the Ethiopian Stock Exchange (ESX), set to launch in two years, which will provide a platform for the privatization of the country’s state-owned enterprises. Three months ago, Ethiopia announced it was in the process of establishing a stock market signaling a window of opportunity for cross-listing. […]
The Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels have arrived in South Africa for peace talks convened by the African Union (AU) that are hailed as the most serious effort to date aimed at finding a solution to the catastrophic two year-long war in northern Ethiopia On Monday (24 October), negotiators for the Ethiopian government and regional […]