Ethiopia

Jérôme Henique, pictured here on 16 February 2023, succeeded Senegalese Alioune Ndiaye as head of Omea activities in July 2022. © Bruno Lévy for JA

multi-service

Premium badgeJérôme Hénique (Orange): “In Africa, FinTech encourages us to open up our ecosystems” Having been the managing director of Orange’s Africa and Middle East divisions since July 2022, Jérôme Hénique, in an exclusive with Jeune Afrique, de...
© Wind turbines at the Lake Turkana Wind Power project in Loiyangalani district, northern Kenya, September 4, 2018. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

Energy Glut

Premium badgeEthiopia, Kenya, Uganda: East African renewable power can end South Africa’s coal dependence Renewable energy sources in Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda have the potential to end South Africa’s reliance on coal, George Aluru, chair of the Electrici...
© Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets the Chairman of Sudanese Sovereignty Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan at Presidential Palace in Khartoum, Sudan on January 26, 2023. (Photo by Sudan Sovereignty Council Press / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

one against another

Premium badgeGERD: Where does the Sudan-Ethiopia rapprochement leave Egypt? Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed recently visited Sudan for the first time since the 2021 military coup. He met with the Sovereign Council head, A...
Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu campaigning at Malha Mall in Jerusalem, November 1, 2022. © Ziv Koren/Polaris/Starface

opposition

Premium badgeAfrica and Israel: Disunity at the African Union? With Israel regaining its observer status at the AU, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to consolidate relations with the continent. This will ...

Ethiopia top stories

© Ethiopian immigrants returning from Saudi Arabia arrive at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport, 2013. (AFP/Jenny Vaughan)

human rights?

Premium badgeEthiopia: New scheme to export maids to Saudi Arabia after ban due to rights abuses lifted Ethiopia has started a scheme to send 500,000 house maids to Saudi Arabia, swallowing its concerns over human rights abuses in a bid to tackle depress...

drawn-out battle

Premium badgeNigeria Air fuels stand-off between Hadi Sirika, Allen Onyema A surprise announcement of Nigeria Air’s demonstration flight by Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s aviation minister who served under ex-president Muhammadu Buha...
© 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...

Ethiopia top stories

© Ethiopian immigrants returning from Saudi Arabia arrive at Addis Ababa’s Bole International Airport, 2013. (AFP/Jenny Vaughan)

human rights?

Premium badgeEthiopia: New scheme to export maids to Saudi Arabia after ban due to rights abuses lifted Ethiopia has started a scheme to send 500,000 house maids to Saudi Arabia, swallowing its concerns over human rights abuses in a bid to tackle depress...

drawn-out battle

Premium badgeNigeria Air fuels stand-off between Hadi Sirika, Allen Onyema A surprise announcement of Nigeria Air’s demonstration flight by Hadi Sirika, Nigeria’s aviation minister who served under ex-president Muhammadu Buha...
© 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...

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© An Ethiopian Orthodox priest holds out the orthodox cross for a beleiver to kiss in the courtyard of the Elias church in the mountains surrounding Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. AFP PHOTO/Roberto SCHMIDT (Photo by ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP)

HISTORIC SCHISM

Premium badgeEthiopia: Orthodox Church split is political hot potato for Abiy Ethiopia’s Orthodox Christian Church is locked in a bitter dispute with the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, alleging state interference in ch...
Mostafa Terrab, head of OCP. © HOC.

competition

Premium badgeOCP Africa intends to build upon its East African inroads In East Africa, the Moroccan group headed by Mostafa Terrab, the continent’s leader, is facing growing competition from Saudi giants in fertilisers an...
© French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali prior to their meeting at the Presidential Elysee Palace in Paris, France on February 7, 2023. (Photo by Umit Donmez / ANADOLU AGENCY / Anadolu Agency via AFP)

after ceasefire

Premium badgeEthiopia: After meeting with Tigrayan leaders, Abiy comes to Europe for support Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed toured European capitals this week as he seeks to rehabilitate his government’s international image and raise fund...
© Bags of wheat funded by the Ukrainian government are seen at a World Food Programme (WFP) warehouse in Adama, Ethiopia, on January 12, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)

eyes on prize

Premium badgeEthiopia seeks regional breadbasket title, boosts wheat production Ethiopia is ramping up wheat production in a bid to transform itself from a net grain importer into a regional breadbasket that produces enough to exp...
© The newly-appointed Ethiopian Airlines Chief Executive Officer Mesfin Tasew is pictured in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 24, 2022. Ethiopian Airlines/Handout via REUTERS

air freight

Premium badge‘Reasonable’ airline taxes will boost continental free trade, says Ethiopian Airlines’ Mesfin Tasew Indigenous airlines in Africa could do more to facilitate the movement of goods and people under the AfCFTA agreement if governments slash the hefty t...
© A branch of South African mobile communications provider Vodacom in Cape Town is shown in this picture taken November 10, 2015. REUTERS

WIN-WIN

Premium badgeSouth Africa: Vodafone Egypt deal instantly boosts Vodacom’s revenue Newcomer Vodafone Egypt made a positive contribution to Vodacom Group revenue in the quarter ended in December 2022, according to the South African he...