In a few weeks, when the rainy season arrives, water will finally begin to flow into the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Expect regional tensions to rise along with the water level
Governments and civil societies need to be vigilant in supporting a free press, even while it is still developing
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There have been many clues to the fact that not all was right in Ethiopia, though few heeded the signs
African leaders joined other foreign dignitaries in paying homage to Ethiopia’s longtime prime minister Meles Zenawi ahead of Sunday’s state funeral.
Ethiopia will hold a state funeral on Sptember 2 for late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died on Monday after 21 years in power.
Just a few hours after Meles Zenawi’s death was announced, British prime ministers – past and present – were queueing to pay tribute.
The cerebral 57-year-old Meles Zenawi, who ruled Ethiopia for the past 21 years, died this week. He was a man of many parts.
TB Joshua isn’t just predicting the death of Africa’s kings; he has the ear of some of Africa’s top politicians – including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
Thousands of mourning Ethiopians turned out as the late prime minister Meles Zenawi’s body arrived at Addis Ababa airport.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has died from a sudden infection while recovering from an undisclosed illness at a hospital in Belgium.
Ethiopian opposition parties have rejected parliamentary elections which gave Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling coalition a majority last week.
Thousands of supporters streamed into a square in Ethiopia’s capital on Tuesday to celebrate a peaceful election win for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Voters go to the polls in Ethiopia on Sunday with little doubt that Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will stay in power.
Accusations of harassment and murder have led to tensions in Ethiopia between the ruling party and the opposition, a month ahead of the polls.
Biyansa Daba is the second government opponent killed in a month in Ethiopia as general election approaches.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he is willing to meet Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki despite more than 10 years of bitter words.
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/ 12 November 2009
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday it was unlikely the world was serious about tackling global warming.
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/ 3 November 2009
Ethiopian opposition parties say nearly 450 of their members have been jailed to stop them running as candidates in national elections next year.
A US-based university professor is among 13 men convicted in absentia by Ethiopia for plotting to overthrow the government, it was reported on Friday.
A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia’s government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday.
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/ 3 February 2009
Troops have crossed the border back into Somalia, only days after Ethiopia completed a military pullout from its neighbour, witnesses said on Tuesday.
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/ 10 October 2008
Football is a national obsession in Ethiopia, but it’s the UK premier league that gets the crowd — and the copycat Brit-style hooligans — going.
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/ 12 September 2008
Ethiopia has said neighbour and foe Eritrea is ”incapable” of launching a war across its border.
Most nations erect grandiose monuments to their historical triumphs. Eritrea put up a pair of sandals. The sculpted black metal shoes in Asmara’s Shida (Sandal) Square, recalling the footwear of Eritrea’s rebels, were a symbol of its remarkable 30-year independence war against its giant neighbour, Ethiopia, which ended with secession in 1991.
The senior leader of Somalia’s Islamist opposition vowed on Wednesday to expel United States-backed Ethiopian troops by force and create an Islamic republic in the war-torn country. Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys, who led Somalia’s Islamic Courts movement, said Mogadishu’s Western-backed Transitional Federal Government was run by ”traitors”.
Ethiopia criticised Amnesty International on Thursday and said the group’s accusations that Ethiopian soldiers killed 21 people at a Mogadishu mosque were ”lies” and ”propaganda”. Amnesty said on Wednesday the soldiers, who are stationed in Somalia to bolster the interim government, had also captured dozens of children.
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/ 3 February 2008
The United States of Africa is one of few concrete plans on which African leaders agreed as they struggled with issues of peacekeeping and political disputes at this week’s continental summit. The problem is, so many countries want to be Washington, DC, and presidential candidates are already rumoured.
Kenyans across the political divide prayed for peace on Sunday while aid workers sought to bring relief to nearly 200 000 refugees from post-election violence. ”Our leaders have failed us. They have brought this catastrophe upon us. So now we are turning to the Almighty to save Kenya,” said Jane Riungu, leading her five children to a hilltop church.
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/ 1 December 2007
A deadline for Ethiopia and Eritrea to agree on the physical demarcation of their border expired on Saturday amid escalating tension between the two nations, leaving the frontier only delineated on maps. For now, analysts expect no military movement in the ground, although rival troops are eyeballing each other near their 1 000kmf border.
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/ 28 November 2007
It’s hard to see the looming threat of war with Ethiopia as you walk Eritrea’s tree-lined boulevards or enter its Italian-style cafes. But beneath the Eritrean capital’s tranquil surface, many Eritreans say they are worried about a repeat of the 1998 to 2000 border war that killed about 70 000 people.