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Ethiopia signs US$14 million power projects management deal Ethiopia has awarded two management deals worth US$14.1 million to a USA based company, AECOM Technology Corporation, a leading provider of profession...

Transport: Landing on a runway near you Africa’s major airlines are knitting new networks across the continent as smaller regional airlines seek consolidation

Djibouti to pay US$18 million annually for Ethiopian power supply Djibouti will pay US$18 million for power imports from neighbouring Ethiopia.

Nigeria’s Dangote group to build cement factory in Ethiopia One of Africa’s leading business groups, Dangote, is set to construct a US$400 million factory in Ethiopia, hoping to take advantage of the constructi...

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© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

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© Farmers harvest wheat to increase local production of wheat and compensate for the shortage of wheat in Egypt. April 28, 2023. (Photo by Mahmoud Elkhwas / NurPhoto / NurPhoto via AFP)

harsh consequences

Premium badgeEgypt: Farmers bear brunt of climate change and dam project The Egyptian government has included small-scale farmers in its fight to counter the food crisis as it tries to feed over 100 million people amid a wo...
© File photo of Getachew Reda (L), leader of the new interim administration in Tigray, and former advisor and spokesman of the Tigray Region. (Photo by Yasuyoshi CHIBA / AFP)

Tigray turbulence

Premium badgeEthiopia peace deal offers Tigrayans hope but dilemmas persist Tigray’s political parties are determined to restore peace, rebuild the war-torn society, and strengthen democracy, but they don’t all share the same ...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (l) walks alongside Sudanese Army Chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan (C) at Khartoum Airport during a welcome ceremony on January 26, 2023. (Photo by – / AFP)

BALANCING ACT

Premium badgeWhy Ethiopia’s Abiy opts for neutrality in Sudan’s war of the generals Just five days after Sudan’s rival generals started their war on 15 April, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed what he called “false allega...

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African women entrepreneurs meet to build capacity in US African women from 36 countries are participating in the African Women Entrepreneurship programme underway in the US to provide participants with prof...

Ethiopian Christians celebrate the discovery of the True Cross Tens of Millions of Ethiopian Orthodox church followers on Tuesday evening celebrate the eve of Demera, a festival marking the discovery of the True C...

Nine Ethiopian band members killed, 17 injured Ethiopia has been plunged into mourning after nine artists were killed and 17 seriously injured in a car accident.

Ethiopia, Egypt resolve dispute over Nile Ethiopia and Egypt have agreed to jointly assess the impact on the environment likely to be made by the construction of Africa’s largest dam over the ...

Ethiopia PM denies calling for Sudan president Bashir’s ouster Ethiopia has dismissed claims in leaked US diplomatic cable quoting Prime Minister Meles Zenawi urging America to topple Sudanese President Al Bashir.

WikiLeaks: Journalist forced to flee Ethiopia An Ethiopian journalist, Argaw Ashine, has been forced to flee the Horn of Africa country after his name appeared in a leaked United States diplomatic...