Source: Middle East Eye
Egyptian media lashed out at Saudi Arabia following a high-level Saudi delegation’s visit to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) during…
British officials have been questioned for giving an Ethiopian girl band £5.2 million in foreign aid amid criticisms of the program which the government hopes…
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporate
About 9,800 suspects, who were arrested under the State of Emergency, will be released next Wednesday, said the Command Post established…
Source: National Geographic Australia
Also called chimaeras, ghost sharks are dead-eyed, wing-finned fish rarely seen by people. Relatives of sharks and rays, these deep-sea denizens…
Source: Reuters
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…
A Kenyan tech engineer, who had been imprisoned in Ethiopia since 2015 when he was arrested on charges of telecommunication fraud, has died in prison.…
Source: Times Live.
Three Basotho nationals aged 27‚ 32, and 33, have been arrested by police in Bloemfontein‚ Free State‚ for two counts of murder…
Source: Associated Press
Human rights groups are asking the Ethiopian government to immediately disclose the whereabouts of a popular local journalist who has been behind…
Source: Fana Broadcasting
Doctors at Menelik II hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have removed more than 1kg of cocaine from the abdomen of a Nigerian…
Source: AP
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…
Ethiopia’s burgeoning economy has lost millions of dollars due to the government’s decision to shutdown Internet and mobile services.
Ethiopia has been lauded as one…
Israeli authorities have canceled a law which barred Ethiopian-Jews from donating blood. The change in policy was announced on Thursday by Israeli health officials, Haaretz…
Source: Africa News
The United States Department of State has extended its travel warning for Ethiopia citing the potential for civil unrest related to sporadic…
Source: Reuters
In Egypt, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been the target of bitter criticism and even violent protests this year.…
Source: Africa News
The European Union (EU) is disturbed over the arrest of a leading opposition leader by the Ethiopian government. The EU has subsequently…
Source: Africa News
Ethiopia has restored mobile Internet services after the service was blocked for over two months. The blockage was connected with anti-government protests…
Ethiopian authorities have arrested high-ranking opposition leader Merera Gudina at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport on Wednesday after his arrival from Europe where he gave…
Source: Fana Broadcasting
The Command Post established to oversee the implementation of the state of emergency, and opposition political parties operating in the country peacefully…
Source: Haaretz
Inexperienced students of circumcision have been practicing their skills on the babies of the poorest of Israeli society – Ethiopian and Sudanese families…
Source: BBC News
A man who injured 11 people, one critically, in a rampage at Ohio State University was of Somali descent and a student…
Ethiopian authorities have foiled an attack from Ginbot 7 after the banned opposition group attempted to invade the country from neighboring Eritrea.
Ethiopia’s Ministry of…
Source: Radio Sweden
A Swedish cardiac surgeon who has been imprisoned in Ethiopia since 2013 could face more time in prison.
The cardiac surgeon from…
Ethiopian authorities have charged 38 inmates of a prison in Addis Ababa, where high-profile political prisoners are reportedly being held, with setting the facility on…
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporation
Belgium has modified its travel advice on Ethiopia from warning to caution.
Last week, Germany lifted its warning for German tourists…
Source: UPI
Scientists have observed signs of dominance among populations of an infamous ant species, Lepisiota canescens, in Ethiopia. The species has begun organizing into…
Source: Geeska Africa
Ethiopia will bid to hosting of 2025 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON). The plan to host the continental competition was revealed on…
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar was arrested in Ethiopia on Monday after his arrival at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa from South…
Source: Arab American News
Police in Michigan are looking for several witnesses to a possible hate crime against a taxi cab driver in downtown Grand…
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporate
The Ethiopian State of Emergency Inquiry Board has begun inspecting the handling of individuals detained under the state of emergency.
The…
Source: BBC African News
A female Somali musician has released a song titled “Donald Trump,” urging the president-elect to accept the Somali-American community.
Prior to…
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporation
Germany has lifted a travel warning that restricted its citizens from traveling to Ethiopia.
The warning was lifted as peace and…
Source: Africa News
A court in Ethiopia has sentenced a journalist to a year in prison on charges of defaming senior clergy members of the…
Ethiopian authorities have charged 22 individuals with inciting violence, causing damages to government property and being members of a banned opposition group.
On Monday, the…
Source: ENCA
Ethiopian police have re-arrested a blogger and human rights activist who criticized the government, especially its handling of the ongoing protests in the…
A group of tourists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been attacked and robbed at gunpoint in Ethiopia while traveling through the southern part…
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporation
The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) said it has sold Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) bonds worth $6.4 million in the…
Source: IBTimes UK
Jawar Mohammed, political analyst and executive director of the Oromia Media Network (OMN), believes the Ethiopian government would kill him, should he…
Source: Associated Press
Swiss police raided a mosque in a northern city on Wednesday, detaining eight people including an Ethiopian imam who allegedly called for…
Ethiopia has once again accused Egypt and Eritrea of sponsoring armed opposition groups which Addis Ababa claims are responsible for the recent unrest in the…
Source: BBC News
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has dropped or moved several of his key allies in the cabinet, including the minister of foreign…
Ethiopian authorities have released about 2,000 individuals who were detained after a state of emergency was declared in the country earlier this month in response…
Source: Voice of America News
The Ethiopian government has ruled out holding new nationwide elections to address the grievances behind nearly a year of deadly…
Islamic insurgency group al-Shabab has taken over a strategic town in war-torn Somalia on Wednesday after Ethiopian troops withdrew from their positions on Wednesday.
Ethiopia,…
Ethiopian authorities have said that tourists are excluded from the country’s state of emergency which require foreign diplomats to seek permission before taking long trips…
Source: Africa News
Ethiopia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has slammed Human Rights Watch (HRW) for its reportage of the ongoing unrest…
The U.S. government has issued a travel alert for Ethiopia amid widespread anti-government protests which have led to the death of hundreds and the incarceration…
Source: Daily Mail UK
An asylum seeker has been stabbed to death by a lynch mob of people traffickers near Calais after he tried to…
Ethiopian authorities have recovered more than 700 arms and arrested about 1,600 people since October 9 when the government declared a state of emergency in…