Ethiopia

ABHAY DESHPANDE

The former World Bank representative in Khartoum has been appointed to Addis Ababa. From July 1, he will replace Theodore [...]

OLF LEAVES TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT

The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) announced on June 23 that it has left the transitional Ethiopian government where its members [...]

TRANSIT FIRMS PRIVATISATION AHEAD

The Ethiopian transport and communications minister has issued a directive abolishing the State's monopoly on transit and shipping agencies. These [...]

EUROPEAN SUPPORT FOR IMPORTS

The European Community has granted a 27 million-ecu (about 33 million dollars) subsidy to Ethiopia, under the seventh EDF convention. [...]

Regional elections due to be held on June 21, have [...]

BILATERAL AMERICAN AID

The United States granted the Ethiopian government assistance in kind (cotton, cereals, vegetable oil) to a value of 95.2 million [...]

According to the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Party (EPRP), twenty-two of [...]

BRITISH FOOD AID

Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]

OLF OFFICIALLY CONDEMNED FOR BEDENO MASSACRE

During its session on May 26, the Ethiopian Council of Representatives, the parliament, condemned the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) for [...]

GIRMA GHENNET

Girma Ghennet, who represents the Coalition of Ethiopian Democratic Forces [...]

THE NEW AFAR SCENE

The situation of Afar tribes in Ethiopia's political and ethnic jigsaw is presently very complex. The head of state, President [...]

The agreement between Addis Abeba and the Eritrean authorities on [...]

The Afar Forum is to hold its annual meeting in [...]

TURBULENT LOCAL ELECTIONS

Local elections in Ethiopia that have been underway since the end of April in the country's districts and kebele (quarters), [...]

MOSCOW SEEKS TO RECOVER ITS DEBT

The Russian ambassador to Addis Ababa, Lev Mironov, recently announced that the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) wanted to open [...]

BEYENE BERHE

Former director of sales and marketing for Ethiopian Airlines, Beyene Berhe was recently appointed regional director of the company for [...]

Ethiopian Airlines, the national carrier that recently began flying to [...]

ELECTRICITY PROJECT RESUMES

The Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority (EELPA) recently announced work had resumed on construction of high voltage lines between, [...]

HASSAN ABDALLAH WATTA

A former civil servant who worked in the Djiboutian agriculture [...]