Ethiopia

Ten groups represented in the Ethiopian parliament and forming an [...]

ETHIOPIAN ISSAS DROP GOULED

The Issa Gurgura Liberation Front (IGLF), a formation comprising ethnic Issas living in the region of Dire Dawa, east of [...]

MEBA'A TSION ALI

An opponent of the EPRDF government in Addis Ababa, Maba'a [...]

The last remaining 6,000 soldiers demobilised after the fall of [...]

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ELECTIONS CONTESTED

Ethiopia's regional elections on June 21 did not turn out to be the "democratic turning point" that some people had hoped they would. The most disappointed would have been United States deputy secretary of State for African affairs, Herman Cohen, [.

The United Nations is preparing to issue another appeal for [...]

According to Agence France Presse (AFP) on 2 July, based [...]

ABHAY DESHPANDE

The former World Bank representative in Khartoum has been appointed to Addis Ababa. From July 1, he will replace Theodore [...]

OLF LEAVES TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT

The Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) announced on June 23 that it has left the transitional Ethiopian government where its members [...]

TRANSIT FIRMS PRIVATISATION AHEAD

The Ethiopian transport and communications minister has issued a directive abolishing the State's monopoly on transit and shipping agencies. These [...]

EUROPEAN SUPPORT FOR IMPORTS

The European Community has granted a 27 million-ecu (about 33 million dollars) subsidy to Ethiopia, under the seventh EDF convention. [...]

Regional elections due to be held on June 21, have [...]

BILATERAL AMERICAN AID

The United States granted the Ethiopian government assistance in kind (cotton, cereals, vegetable oil) to a value of 95.2 million [...]

According to the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Party (EPRP), twenty-two of [...]

BRITISH FOOD AID

Britain's minister for overseas development, Lynda Chalker, announced on 1 June that Great Britain has granted further emergency food aid [...]

OLF OFFICIALLY CONDEMNED FOR BEDENO MASSACRE

During its session on May 26, the Ethiopian Council of Representatives, the parliament, condemned the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) for [...]

GIRMA GHENNET

Girma Ghennet, who represents the Coalition of Ethiopian Democratic Forces [...]

THE NEW AFAR SCENE

The situation of Afar tribes in Ethiopia's political and ethnic jigsaw is presently very complex. The head of state, President [...]

The agreement between Addis Abeba and the Eritrean authorities on [...]