Ethiopia

The president of Region Six (Benishangul) Atom Mustapha Muhamet and [...]

ASRAT WOLDEYES

On June 27, the high court of justice in Addis [...]

TENDER FOR FOUR GOLD DEPOSITS

The mines and energy ministry has issued an invitation to [...]

THE FATE OF AFAR REFUGEES

One of the secretaries of the French parliament's foreign affairs commission, Xavier Deniau, has pleaded in a report of the [...]

ASSEMBLY DOMINATED BY EPRDF

Still-incomplete returns from Ethiopia's June 5 elections for a constituent assembly indicate a very large victory for candidates of the [...]

MENGISTU HAILE MARIAM

According to the Harare independent Daily Gazette, exiled former Ethiopian head of state Mengistu Haile Mariam is working part-time as [...]

SOLOMON GIDADA

Ethiopia's first ambassador to Ireland presented his Letters of Credence [...]

FAMINE AND RED TAPE

Ethiopian prime minister Tamirat Layne last week criticized bureaucratic red tape, saying that it was hobbling the proper distribution of [...]

According to independent Amharic language press media in Addis Ababa, [...]

THIRTEEN BLOCKS OFFERED IN OGADEN

A tender is currently underway for the awarding of production [...]

ELECTIONS - EXCEPT REGIONS 5 AND 6

Virtually on the eve of the constituent elections planned for June 5, the Ethiopian government re-scheduled the ballot to July [...]

INDUSTRIAL STUDIES BY REGION

The African Development Fund (ADF, part of the African Development Bank group) is expected to adopt at end-July the terms [...]

According to a recent report by the United States embassy [...]

HAILE MERKORIOS

Eritrea's ambassador in Ethiopia Haile Merkorios is believed to have [...]

KUMELACHEW DEGENE

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic [...]

FAMINE AS A POLITICAL CARD

The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) headed by Beyene Petros (ION N° 620) has constituted [...]

TOEING THE LINE IN REGION FIVE

After having favoured the nomination of a new executive power in parliament for the Ethiopian-Somali region, which then decided to [...]

The Ethiopian Teachers Association has proposed the establishment of a [...]

REAL ESTATE PROBLEMS IN ADDIS ABABA

The promulgation of the Ethiopian government's new real estate law in Addis Ababa on April 27 has seen house owners [...]