UPDATES: Egyptian military sources said a police vehicle was detonated Saturday morning southern al-Arish city, North Sinai, leaving two conscripts killed and 18 others injured, al-Bawaba News reported.
The injured conscripts have been moved to a (...)
UPDATES: Egyptian military sources said a police vehicle was detonated Saturday morning southern al-Arish city, North Sinai, leaving two conscripts killed and 18 others injured, al-Bawaba News reported.
The injured conscripts have been moved to a (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Despite ongoing tensions and controversy facing Ethiopian Jews in Israel, the final two planes carrying people from Addis Ababa to Tel Aviv left last week to become citizens of Israel. According to reports, two jetliners flew 450 (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy reported over 13,200 home solar systems has been installed over the past nine months in rural areas which are not connected to the national electric grid.
The Ministry told to Ethiopian News (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Airlines has made a record profit, the company's chief executive officer said this week.
Tewolde Gebremariam partly credited the profitability of Ethiopian Airlines to Boeing's problematic 787 planes.
He said the company's (...)
ADDIS ABABA: New reports are emerging from Ethiopia that polio is on the rise.
An 18-month-old child in the Warder district of Ethiopia is the country's first polio case since 2008. Government health officials told Bikyanews.com that they are (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Mariam sits quietly as she listens to the Friday sermon. Her mind is elsewhere. She believes in change and hopes for her country, Ethiopia. But for her, as a Muslim woman, life in the country is becoming overwhelming at times, she (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The sound of gun salutes could be heard across the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Tuesday as the country marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. His death last year sparked hope that the (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Adina is a 24-year-old recent university graduate. For the past four years she has learned and worked toward achieving her goal of going abroad for a Master's degree. This past week she received word from two American universities that (...)
ADDIS ABABA and SINGAPORE: Ugandan girls are being trafficked and forced to work as sex slaves in Asia at an alarming number, Uganda's High Commissioner to India Nimisha Madhvan said.
The envoy said the young girls are trafficked into India, (...)
ADDIS ABABA: One year removed from the passing of former leader Meles Zenawi has left much of Ethiopia questioning the country's future. The vast majority hope for change and greater freedoms after decades of oppression at the hands of the late (...)
ADDIS ABABA: According to Ethiopian government officials, the Egyptian interim government has been pressing officials here in Addis Ababa to stop construction of the Renaissance Dam along the Nile River. It comes as Egypt finds itself in a messy (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday said government policies have been playing key role in registering ongoing economic growth and sustaining it in Ethiopia.
IMF special envoy Kal Wajid made the remark after holding talks (...)
ADDIS ABABA: A Saudi Arabian company, Saudi Cargo, has announced plans to start transporting meat from Ethiopia to Europe by the end of this year. Saudi Cargo has selected five Ethiopian exporters for this, after evaluating their performance in (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom has expressed his willingness to negotiate with Egypt to resolve the dispute over the Nile.
Adhanom made his remarks on Sunday, during a trip to Algeria, saying, "There is no reason that we (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopians are angry after the world-football governing body FIFA stripped the East African country of a World Cup qualifier victory after the squad reportedly fielded an ineligible player.
"I am shocked and upset and we will protest (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is hoping that talks with Egypt will ease a row over sharing the waters of the Nile, Foreign Minister Tedros Adhanom said on Sunday during a trip to Algeria. The dispute erupted after Ethiopia last month began diverting the (...)
ADDIS ABABA: A top Ethiopian newspaper lashed out at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community this past week, referring to gay people as "satanic" and as a spreading "disease" in a report that has left the community angered and (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia women are praising efforts over the past month to increase their empowerment within the business sector of the country. In recent weeks, Ethiopian women have been able to increase their living by applying for loans at a (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Adina is a 24-year-old recent university graduate. For the past four years she has learned and worked toward achieving her goal of going abroad for a Master's degree. This past week she received word from two American universities that (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Egypt officials tried to cool tensions with Ethiopia Wednesday over the new Nile River dam project by highlighting its "neighborliness" as the Ethiopian prime minister's spokesman insisted that nothing would stop the dam from being (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Thousands of Ethiopians took to the streets of the capital Sunday in frustration over the government and demanding the immediate release of jailed journalists and activists in a rare show of public opposition to the ruling party which (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Egypt has lashed out at the Ethiopian government over a dam project along the Nile River, saying Addis Ababa has not done enough research into the impact the Renaissance Dam project will have on water supplies to the North African (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's government said it will sign agreements with China's ZTE Corp and Huawei Technologies Co Ltd in a “few weeks" to expand its mobile phone infrastructure and double subscribers to 40 million, a senior Ethiopian official said (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia announced it will begin on Tuesday the process of diverting the course of the Blue Nile River to continue the construction process of its Renaissance Dam, raising concerns over Egypt's water supply.
The spokesman of the (...)