The President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta has arrived in Addis Ababa today.The President was welcomed by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport.Source: Ethiopia News Agency
Continue ReadingCanada desires to play a constructive role in resolving the conflict in northern Ethiopia in a balanced and speedy manner, according to Canadian Foreign Minister.Members of the Ethiopian Diaspora community in Canada discussed the current situation in …
Continue ReadingU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Kenya, Nigeria and Senegal next week to discuss security issues and other topics, the State Department said Thursday. In Abuja, Blinken and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will discuss collaborating on international health security, expanding energy access and security and other issues, it said. Blinken, Kenyan President […]
Continue ReadingUN staffers detained in Ethiopia Ethiopia’s federal government detained nearly two dozen of its nationals who work for the United Nations in the capital, Addis Ababa, earlier this week. More than 70 truck drivers contracted to drive humanitarian assistance into the northern Tigray region for the U.N. and international NGOs were also rounded up in […]
Continue ReadingThe United States has imposed new sanctions on Eritrea’s military, ruling party and two senior government officials in connection with Eritrea’s role in the Ethiopian conflict. The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced Friday that it had imposed sanctions on the Eritrean Defense Force, whose soldiers have fought in […]
Continue ReadingThe report by Reuters claiming that the State of Emergency (SoE) proclamation compels citizens to hold ID cards which disclose their ethnicity is misleading and misrepresents the requirements of the proclamation, according to Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check. The State of Emergency allows citizens to make use of various alternative identity documents, including driver’s license, […]
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