Thursday, November 21, 2024

ETHIOPIA

Regarding Ethiopia’s Blue Nile dam, Sudan and Ethiopia are “in agreement.”

Sudan's de facto leader Abdel Fattah al-Burhan has said that Khartoum and Addis Ababa are "aligned and in agreement" on a controversial Ethiopian dam on the Blue Nile which Egypt views as a threat. Burhan's remarks came during a meeting...

Unconfirmed reports of ethnic conflict in central Ethiopia

Witnesses allege that several dozen civilians and fighters have been killed in new clashes between Ethiopians from the Oromo and Amhara ethnic groups in the centre of the country. The fighting reportedly erupted on Saturday (Jan. 22) in Jewuha town...

Meeting between Ethiopian and Tigray rebel officials to discuss execution of peace agreement

The representatives of Ethiopia’s government and Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) senior commanders met in Nairobi Wednesday (Dec 21). The meeting was meant for a consultation on the implementation of the November peace agreement signed in South Africa on November,...

After a year-long blackout, the Tigray city was reconnected to Ethiopia’s energy grid.

The capital of Tigray, Mekele, has been reconnected to the national power grid after more than a year of being cut off due to the war in this northern region of Ethiopia, the national electricity company announced Tuesday (November...

Ethiopia rules out peace talks with Oromo rebels

Ethiopia’s government has dashed any hope of peace talks with rebels in the restive Oromia region. Expectations had been raised after federal negotiators sat down and made a deal with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) to end the...

Ethiopia: The 2022 Grand Ethiopian Run gathered over 40,000 runners.

More than forty thousand runners took part in the Great Ethiopian Run in the county's capital on Saturday. Participants in the race which included Ethiopian, Kenyan, and Eritrean athletes applauded the peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan...

Ambush kills 20 Muslim worshippers in Ethiopia’s Amhara region

Twenty Muslim worshippers have been killed in Ethiopia’s Amhara region after an ambush by unidentified armed men, an Islamic leader in the region said. The violence was unrelated to the conflict in the neighbouring Tigray region, which began in November 2020 and...

Sudan rejects Ethiopia’s start of electricity production from Nile Dam

Sudan on Monday rejected what it described as a “unilateral step” by Ethiopia the start of electricity production from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). “Ethiopia’s decision to unilaterally begin the operation of the GERD constitutes a violation to the...

Costa Rica 2022 Women’s Under-20 World Cup: Princesses take on Ethiopia in final round …after humiliating Uganda 5-0

Ghana’s Black Princesses, Nigeria and Senegal sealed their spots in the fifth of the African qualifiers for the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup, Costa Rica 2022, after their home victories in the second leg and fourth round ties on...

Ethiopia’s Olympic heroes ready to join war

Ethiopian Olympic heroes Haile Gebrselassie and Feyisa Lilesa say they are ready to go to the front line in the war against rebel forces. Their announcement comes after Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, said he would go to the front to...
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“Ghanaians make up a notable portion of US visa overstayers.”

Ghana has emerged as one of the African countries with high visa overstay rates in the United States, according...
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