ADDIS ABABA: Two Oromo political leaders have been sentenced to up to 13-years in jail after the country's High Court on Thursday convicted them of “inciting a secessionist rebellion.”
Bekele Gerba, deputy chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is continuing to look for ways to boost its information, communications and technology (ICT) sector.
The government on Thursday continued its public campaign that they hope will increase quality and access to ICT across the (...)
ADDIS ABABA: A charter flight sponsored by the International Organization of Migration (IOM) has seen 210 Ethiopian migrants return home after being stranded in Yemen.
The flight, which was funded by a USD 2.1 million donation from the Netherlands, (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's Deputy Prime Minister and ICT Minister Debretsion Gebremichael reported that the country has seen its mobile subscribers cross over the 18 million mark.
Gebremichael added that the government is now “trying to increase access (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The United States Special Advisor for Children's Issues Susan Jacobs is currently visiting Ethiopia to look at means and methods to boost children's rights in the country.
According to a statement from her office, she will be meeting (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Iran is looking to boost investment in Ethiopia, the country's Ambassador in Addis Ababa told Press TV on Sunday.
Ali Bahreini said that Tehran was ready to move on investing in the East African country. It has already done a large (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia and Eritrea have fought wars against one another, but after the two countries supposedly made peace, all should have begun to improve. But that is not the case after Ethiopia's football federation has said it will not fly the (...)
ADDIS ABABA: A group of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) activists in Ethiopia are organizing themselves for what they hope will be action to show solidarity with the gay community in Uganda after their parliament promised to push (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia has returned to the Miss Universe pageant and the country's contestant, 22-year-old Helen Getachew, is already inspiring the country's young women to push forward.
Mothers of teenage girls in the country told Bikyamasr.com that (...)
ADDIS ABABA: International human rights groups and leaders are calling for the immediate rejection of Uganda's anti-homosexuality bill, which has been described as a “Christmas gift” to the country by Speaker of Parliament Rebecca Kadaga (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Despite a certain level of optimism in Ethiopia after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn announced a new “unity” government that includes a more ethnically diverse Cabinet, many in Ethiopia are questioning if it is just lip service to (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian runners are a source of pride in Ethiopia, and for the second straight marathon event, they swept through to victory.
Ethiopia's Heile Haja Gemeda and Ehitu Kiros Reda were the winners of Macau Galaxy Entertainment (...)
ADDIS ABABA: An international panel of experts is continuing to investigate and study the efficacy of Ethiopia's massive Renaissance Dam project that has left Egypt frustrated that it could lose portions of its Nile water.
The panel, asked by (...)
ADDIS ABABA: It is a question that has been on the forefront of political discourse in Ethiopia for the past few months: is the government radicalizing the Muslim population?
Demonstrations at mosques by Muslims demanding the government remove (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn wants mobile money to take off in the country. In an effort to boost cooperation with neighboring countries, the prime minister met with Kenya's top telecom operator Safaricom to discuss (...)
ADDIS ABABA: War over the Nile River? It seems that every few weeks, commentary is published suggesting that Egypt and Ethiopia are ready for military battles over the future of the Nile River.
This week, Robele Ababya wrote a piece titled “Likely (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia is looking to return domestic workers to the United Arab Emirates after the government announced a new labor agreement aimed to protect the rights of workers in the Gulf country following repeated reports of abuse.
The (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) has launched a dispensary that will serve the local pastoralist community living in Letea and Lokipoto areas of Turkana county, northwestern Kenya.
At the request of Kenya's Ministry of (...)
ADDIS ABABA: The debacle over the Kenyan government's decision to push a 10 percent tax on mobile money transfers is continuing with telecom operators calling on the government and regulator to rethink the proposed tariff.
Telecom operator Yu has (...)
ADDIS ABABA: In an effort to boost both the telecom sector and Rwanda's overall economy, Tigo Rwanda announced that it had created some 5,000 jobs over the past two years through its sales training program that it launched in 2010.
The company said (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia government officials have told Bikyamasr.com that they are optimistic that a new strategic pact with Kenya can “have real results.”
The official's comments come as Kenya and Ethiopia on Monday said that they would work closely (...)
ADDIS ABABA Ethiopian farmers are praising the government and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) after the two agreed to begin a five-year project that aims to boost support for the government and its Agricultural Growth (...)
ADDIS ABABA: In what has arguably become one of the most contentious issues in Ethiopia, more calls for supporting the Muslim community are growing across the East African country in recent weeks.
The most recent was an editorial by Abebe Gellaw, (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia and Sudan continued their discussions over the Abyei issue on Saturday with Sudanese Presidential Assistant Nafie Ali Nafie and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn meeting for talks on the topic.
Sudan's President (...)
ADDIS ABABA: Kenya's mobile operator Yu has reported a large subscriber growth, which the company said is part of its continued boosting of services and options for users in the country.
According to a statement from Yu, it said the number of (...)