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Ethiopia

The Turkish crescent arcs across Egypt and Saudi Arabia

What did Recep Tayyip Erdogan negotiate during his visit to Khartoum?

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2018

Addis rejects World Bank involvement in GERD

The Sudanese foreign minister Ibrahim Ghandour cancelled a planned visit to Cairo on 3 January to chair a meeting of [...]

Subscribers only Politics Running Story - The Renaissance Dam 19.01.2018

A Chinese firm sets its sights on the electricity sector

The Chinese giant Lucky Chain has expressed its interest in investing $2 billion in developing the Ethiopian electricity network.

Subscribers only Business 19.01.2018

A double whammy for BGI-Ethiopia

Will BGI Ethiopia, the subsidiary of the French company Castel, [...]

Subscribers only Business 19.01.2018

Spotlight
Tigrayan empire strikes back

The game of musical chairs continues at every level of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition in Addis Ababa. The coalition appears to be on the verge of implosion after its lynchpin, the Tigray People's Liberation Front [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2018

Guelleh slapped on wrist by Hailemariam

On the sidelines of the Ethiopian Nations, Nationalities and People's Day festivities organized in Samra on Dec. 7-8, Ethiopian PM [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2018

China mulling a Plan B without Djibouti

The Chinese have big things in mind for Africa. Their first gambit involving Sudan proved fell flat on its face. [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2018

Al Amoudi's empire collapses across the board…

With the Ethiopian / Saudi Arabian billionaire still in detention in Saudi Arabia, Addis Ababa sounds the death knell for his empire…

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2018

Haillemariam sends Oromo official to United States

According to our sources, just as prime minister Hallemariam Desalegn [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2018

Ginbot 7 receives an invite to the European Parliament

The Portuguese socialist MEP Ana Gomes, who headed the European [...]

Subscribers only Politics 09.01.2018

French business leaders discover an interest in East Africa

In early March, for the first time in its history, [...]

Subscribers only Business 09.01.2018

Renaissance: BRL caught between Cairo and Addis

Renewed tensions between Ethiopia and Egypt over the 6,000 MW Grande Renaissance dam has French engineering consultancy firm BRL and [...]

Subscribers only Energy 19.12.2017

Might the EPRDF coalition fall prey to the domino effect?

In tearing itself apart, the Tigrayan party is threatening to shatter the ruling coalition.

Subscribers only Politics 15.12.2017

Boortmalt toasts a lucrative future in Addis

How did the world's fifth largest malt producer gain a foothold in Ethiopia?

Subscribers only Business 15.12.2017

Document
Salva Kiir dots the ‘i's for the Ethiopian prime minister

The South-Sudanese president Salva Kiir wrote to the Ethiopian prime [...]

Subscribers only Politics 15.12.2017

An isolated Sisi torn between arbitration and force

Although Sudan and Qatar have aligned themselves with Addis Ababa, Egypt is still seeking to block the completion of the GERD.

Subscribers only Politics 01.12.2017

Cracks appear within the TPLF central committee

With meetings of the TPLF executive committee ongoing in Mekele since mid-November, heads are rolling in the Tigray capital amid [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.12.2017

Luck Winner's Chinese investors going for gold

Following on from his first foray into Congo-K gold, Chinese businessman Qiuming Yu is gearing up to expand his activities [...]

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2017

Allied Gold's shareholders pop up in Paradise Papers

The massive leak of Bermuda-based law firm Appleby's confidential internal records has revealed the names of the local partners of West African gold investor Allied Gold.

Subscribers only Mining 28.11.2017

Addis is secretly planning a major diplomatic shift

Unchanging for nearly 17 years, Ethiopian diplomacy is poised to undergo a radical overhaul

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

What are Samora's plans for the army?

In late October, the army chief of staff General Mohamed [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

The new-look army takes shape

With a raft of internal changes taking place within the [...]

Subscribers only Politics 17.11.2017

Why Bereket Simon has been sidelined

The purge within the EPRDF, which is being overseen by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, has just claimed a new victim: [...]

Subscribers only 03.11.2017

French businessmen club together

Following the launch in 2012 of the European Union Business [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.11.2017

Clarification concerning Onomo

Following our article ‘The French hotel chain Onomo heads east', [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.11.2017

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