The global coronavirus pandemic will not deter Ethiopia on its mission to plant five billion trees by the end of July, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Friday, World Environment Day. READ ALSO: COVID-19: Lagos begins home-based treatment of patients in 2 weeks “Despite #COVID19, we are determined to plant the intended five billion trees,” […]
Ethiopia’s election board on Friday set a date of Aug. 29 for parliamentary elections that will be a first test of voter support for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has eased political restrictions since he took office in 2018. The date is two weeks later than the electoral board had previously indicated, on account of […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday night in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, declared that a robust cooperation between Nigeria and Ethiopia would provide a strong pillar for African integration. The Nigerian leader, according to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in Abuja on Wednesday, spoke at a State Dinner […]
President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, described Nigeria-Canada relations as very cordial, expressing his desire to further strengthen bilateral ties. The President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said the Buhari met with Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau on the margins […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has arrived Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ahead of the 33rd Ordinary Session of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU). The President was welcomed by the Prime Minister of Ethiopia H.E. Abiy Ahmed Ali and Nigerian Ambassador to Ethiopia Amb. Bankole Adeoye President Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir […]
President Muhammadu Buhari today will depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to join leaders from the 55-member countries of the African Union (AU) to participate in the 33rd Ordinary Session of the Union President @MBuhari will tomorrow, depart Abuja for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to join leaders from the 55-member countries of the African Union (AU) […]
Hundreds of thousands of Ethiopia’s largest ethnic group celebrated in Addis Ababa on Saturday at the start of an annual thanksgiving festival, which was marred by violence in 2016. Security was high for Irreecha, which is celebrated by the Oromo people to mark the start of the harvest season. On Friday and Saturday, thousands of […]
The General Manager of Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria, Mrs Firiehiwot Mekonnen has said that Ethiopia has a lot to offer in terms of tourism destinations. Speaking in an interview with the newsmen at the recently concluded Akwaaba African Travel Market in Lagos, Mrs Mekonnen said the airline participated in the fair to showcase what Ethiopia […]
Mutiat Alli – Lagos Del-York Creative Academy is partnering with award winning instructors from Hollywood, bringing them to Nigeria to lead an intensive month-long workshop. According to the Chief Executive Officer of the Academy, Linus Idahosa is part of its commitment to spur educational reform, thereby transforming the country’s creative education classroom theory with a […]
As crisis intensifies in Ethiopia, the government is putting in measures to avert worst case scenario by blocking all forms of communication that could be exploited to boost logistics of the ongoing carnage. This was coming as the leadership’s federal forces of Ethiopia is been blamed for escalating unrest in Ethiopia’s Oromia region. The Federal […]
Journalists from Africa have engaged in a two-day dialogue on Agenda 2063 at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The African Union Agenda 2063 is a strategic framework for the socio-economic transformation of the continent over the next 50 years. It builds on and seeks to accelerate the implementation of […]
More than 100, 000 Ethiopians on Wednesday protested the killing of Ethiopian Christians in Libya and their own government’s failure to raise living standards of the poor, with poverty fuelling the flow of migrants through dangerous areas. The government-supported march at Addis Ababa’s Meskel Square turned violent, as stone-throwing protesters clashed with the police, who […]
Ethiopia has confirmed that 30 of its nationals were killed by Islamic State militants in Libya. The confirmation came Monday, a day after the Islamic State group released a graphic video purporting to show Ethiopian Christians being decapitated or shot in the back of the head. An Ethiopian government statement condemned what it called the […]
Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, East Africa’s biggest carrier by revenue, has again admitted it is in talks with Nigeria over plans to help set up national airlines in Nigeria and three other countries to expand its operations on the continent. This move is certainly going to elicit reactions from airline observers in Nigeria following failed engagements […]
Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan have signed an initial agreement on how to share water from the Nile River that runs through the three countries, as Ethiopia constructs a massive new dam it hopes will help alleviate some of its electricity shortages. Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, Sudanese President Omar Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam […]