Yegna’s Managing Director Solome Tadesse said on Tuesday that the project would continue despite the UK Department for International Development (DFID)’s decision to cut its funding for the Ethiopian girl band.
The moon is older than previously thought, pushing back the clock for when conditions on Earth were suitable for life, research published on Wednesday shows.
A new analysis of zircon fragments trapped in rock samples retrieved by the Apollo 14 …
Egypt’s foreign ministry said Ethiopia has released three Egyptian nationals detained for months during a recent wave of violent protests that left hundreds dead in the East African country.
The foreign ministry secured the three men’s release after a month-long …
Astronomers studying a binary star system about 1,800 light years from the Sun say they are increasingly confident that the two stars will merge into a luminous red nova in about five years.
At its brightest, the spectacular explosion produced …
Ethiopia needs to “consolidate gains” after the deadly unrest last year before it can lift a state of emergency that was imposed in October, the prime minister said on Monday.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has said his government would strengthen the measures it has been taking against high-ranking officials involved in corruption and rent-seeking practices.
The Premier made the remark on Monday during a press conference on current Ethiopian …
Ethiopian religious leaders have underscored the need to celebrate Gena (Christmas), a festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, in unity and with respect for each other.
Egypt’s Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry discussed Egyptian-Ethiopian bilateral relations on Tuesday with his Ethiopian counterpart Minister Workineh Gebeyehu, and congratulated him on becoming the country’s top diplomat.
According to a statement by the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shoukry told …
The Federal High Court 19th Criminal Bench has sentenced 20 people to up to five years and six months in prison for trying to establish an Islamic state.
The Bench passed guilty verdicts on December 26, 2016, on the …
Following the in-depth reform program it carried out, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has taken measures against more than 640 members of its leaderships who committed misconduct.
Amanuel Amare, rural political affairs head at TPLF office, told ENA that …
Lemi Berhanu and Meseret Mengistu led podium sweeps for Ethiopia at the Xiamen International Marathon on Monday, the first IAAF Gold Label Road Race of 2017.
Berhanu, the reigning Boston Marathon champion, lived up to expectations as the fastest entrant, …
About 130 people have been arrested on suspicion of corruption, said the Ethiopian Federal Police Commission.
They were arrested on suspicion of alleged corrupt practice in public procurement, housing and land development, banking and share companies -related activities as …
The body of a 31-year-old man found in a rural village on the fringes of Bristol could have lain there for several days before it was discovered on Christmas Eve, police believe.
Ethiopia, one of five countries the IAAF says is in “critical care” over its drug-testing systems, will impose lifetime bans on drug cheats, the new president of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) said on Wednesday.
Following the violence that occurred in some parts of the country earlier in this Ethiopian fiscal year (2016/17), tourist flow and the income generated from the sector have declined slightly.
A minibus full of passengers collided with a dump truck in Bora, 100 miles south of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, resulting in the death of all 14 passengers including the driver.
The Legatum Institute, a London-based research institute, released its 10th annual global Prosperity Index, a huge survey that ranks the most prosperous countries in the world last Thursday.
A Ugandan soldier has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Eritrean businessman with the intention of stealing two millon euros (Shs8 billion) from him.
Capt. Hakim Mangeni and his alleged accomplices; Mr …
An Ethiopian husband and wife living as legal permanent residents of the U.S. have received two years probation for arranging a sham marriage so a relative could live legally in the country, and for tax fraud.
Tupac Shakur just earned a spot in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, becoming the sixth hip-hop artist to be inducted, after Run-D.M.C., Public Enemy, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and N.W.A.
The head of the Middle East Centre for Strategic and Legal Studies, Anwar Eshki, has denied media reports claiming that Saudi Arabia intends to finance the construction of Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam.
Egyptian media lashed out at Saudi Arabia following a high-level Saudi delegation’s visit to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during a trip to Ethiopia on Friday. Experts said the decision to visit the GERD was …
About 9,800 suspects, who were arrested under the State of Emergency, will be released next Wednesday, said the Command Post established to oversee the implementation of the nationwide State of Emergency.
Also called chimaeras, ghost sharks are dead-eyed, wing-finned fish rarely seen by people. Relatives of sharks and rays, these deep-sea denizens split off from these other groups some 300 million years ago.
Ethiopia on Friday inaugurated a 1.5-billion-euro ($1.57 billion) hydropower plant along the Omo River in the country’s south that will nearly double its total electricity output to 4,238 megawatts (MW).
Human rights groups are asking the Ethiopian government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a popular local journalist who has been behind bars since October 2014.
The Association for Human Rights in Ethiopia and DefendDefenders on Wednesday …
Blood, sweat, and tears stained the deadly 2013 Boston Marathon, so the next year’s running of America’s most famous footrace was understandably all about redemption.
Now the rightful winner of the 2014 women’s race – Buzunesh Deba – …
The United States Department of State has extended its travel warning for Ethiopia citing the potential for civil unrest related to sporadic and unpredictable anti-government protests that began in November 2015.
The European Union (EU) is disturbed over the arrest of a leading opposition leader by the Ethiopian government. The EU has subsequently urged the regime to make public any charges against Professor Merera Gudina.
Ethiopia has restored mobile Internet services after the service was blocked for over two months. The blockage was connected with anti-government protests that broke out largely in the Amhara and Oromia regions.
The Command Post established to oversee the implementation of the state of emergency, and opposition political parties operating in the country peacefully held a discussion on the emergency law on Wednesday.
Inexperienced students of circumcision have been practicing their skills on the babies of the poorest of Israeli society – Ethiopian and Sudanese families – often claiming to be fully-qualified mohels (Jewish ritual circumcisers), according to a …
Scientists have observed signs of dominance among populations of an infamous ant species, Lepisiota canescens, in Ethiopia. The species has begun organizing into supercolonies in the ancient church forests of the East African country.
