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Sudan and Ethiopia said they are determined to reach a deal over the giant hydropower Renaissance dam, which started to be filled by Addis Ababa. The dam has been at the heart of a rife disagreement between Addis Ababa, Khartum and Cairo as downstream countries fear the dam will cut water levels at a time […]
The Federal Attorney General dismissed the Amnesty International report issued in May 2020 under the title “Beyond Law Enforcement: Human Rights Violations by Ethiopian Security Forces in Amhara and Oromia” as fundamentally flawed. In a statement it sent to ENA today, the Attorney General said it had formed a committee drawn from the attorney bureaus […]
Ethiopian Prime Minister’s term has been extended until Covid-19 is no longer considered a crisis situation by the health authorities. The House of Federation, which represents the nine federated states, voted in favor of this solution despite much criticism from the political opposition as well as from jurists and human rights activists. Abiy Ahmed, who […]
The Speaker of the Upper House of the Ethiopian Parliament, Keria Ibrahim, resigned from her post on Monday June 8. The resignation is an apparent protest at the postponement of planned elections in the Horn of Africa country over the coronavirus. Keria Ibrahim accuses the Prime Minister and his government of breaking the law and […]
Morocco and Ethiopia are looking into ways of speeding up the implementation of the “Coalition for Access to Sustainable Energy”, an initiative launched by the two African countries during the Climate Action summit convened last year in New York. The initiative, which aims to ensure full access to energy for the least developed and other […]
Ethiopia has postponed its parliamentary elections scheduled for August due to the coronavirus outbreak, the electoral commission said on Tuesday. “Due to the pandemic we were forced to suspend our activities,” said an Amharic-language statement from the National Electoral Commission. Ethiopia has as of April 1, confirmed 29 coronavirus cases. Infections have so […]
Ethiopia has appointed head of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) as its new ambassador to Morocco. President Sahle-Work Zewde appointed Bacha Gina, CEO and President of the CBE, for the job earlier this month. Gina, led the CBE for 20 months and earned the financial institution the award of The Best Commercial Bank for […]
Australian obstetrician and gynecologist Dr Catherine Hamlin died in her home in Addis Ababa on Wednesday March 18. Dr. Catherine Hamlin, 96, devoted her life to treating Ethiopian women with a devastating childbirthg injury and helped develop pioneering techniques to treat these injuries. Her death was announced by the Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation in […]
The United States has urged Ethiopia to sign in the shortest possible time a deal with Egypt and Sudan about the giant dam it is building on the Nile. According to Steven Mnuchin, the US treasury secretary, the final testing and filling of the dam should not take place without an agreement. The government of […]
Ethiopia will release from jail 63 opposition activists and other high-ranking government critics by the end of the week, a spokesman for the attorney general’s office said on Tuesday. The decision had been taken “for the national good” and investigations against them had been dropped, Zinabu Tubu was quoted as saying. “The Ethiopian […]