Abiy can reset Ethiopia with new Hope
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is seen at a campaign rally in Jimma, Ethiopia, on June 16, 2021 [File: Tiksa Negeri/Reuters] Abiy’s government will have to tackle multiple challenges in…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Party Wins Vote in Landslide
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed secured a popular mandate to rule the Horn of Africa nation, which is confronting a deepening political crisis that’s alarmed investors and drained national coffers.…
Ethiopia has resumed filling of giant dam
CAIRO (Reuters) -Egypt’s irrigation minister said on Monday he had received official notice from Ethiopia that it had begun filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam, the Grand Ethiopian…
Ethiopia votes on Monday
Ethiopians will head to the polls as early as 6:00 o’clock on Monday to cast their votes for 12 hours. Some 37,408,600 voters have been registered for this year’s general…
Kenya, Egypt in defence deal as Cairo moves to consolidate its position around Ethiopia
A general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia, on 26 December 2019 [EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty…
What Ethiopia needs is less, not more, ethno-nationalism
The TPLF, not the Abiy government and its allies, is responsible for the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia. On November 29 of last year, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of…
Ethiopia Under Pressure for the Election Deadline, Postponement Might be on the Cards
Police officers stand in front of a billboard of the political party of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, The Prosperity Party, during the electoral campaign for the general elections in Addis…
US envoy in Egypt for talks on Ethiopia’s dam dispute
U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. CAIRO…
On Gerd Sudan talks tough with Ethiopia because of the Military
Sudan is caught in the middle of a decade-long row between Ethiopia and Egypt over the dam Ethiopia is building on the River Nile and in recent months it has…
Solutions for the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam deadlock
For several years, political tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been escalating in a conflict over the near-complete Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The GERD is Africa’s largest hydropower plant. It dams the…
Breaking News: Unconfirmed reports suggest An Ethiopian-Eritrean Federation Soon
Unconfirmed reports suggest Federation talks are said to start soon between Ethiopia and Eritrea. “You are our leader!” It is important to remember that when President Isaias made his first…
A New Railway Line Linking Ethiopia to Somaliland On The Cards
The Government of Ethiopia has revealed plans for a new railway line linking Ethiopia to Somaliland. This was disclosed in a meeting held in Addis Ababa which the Ethiopian gov’t…
Calls for international probe into fire at Sanaa detention centre
A blaze that tore through a migrant detention centre in Yemen’s capital last week killed dozens of people, mostly Ethiopians. A leader of the Ethiopian community in Yemen’s capital has…
Can agriculture be Ethiopia’s growth engine?
Ethiopia is a net exporter of agriculture commodities. However, the low level of industrialized agriculture means that the country exports very little higher value processed food. Despite strong growth in…
Rising tension as Ethiopia and Sudan deadlocked on border dispute
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (left) and Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (right), head of Sudan’s ruling council [File: Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/Reuters] Bickering over contested farmland along the border has in recent…
