[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- The United States Department of State named on Friday a veteran diplomat Jeffrey Feltman as a special envoy to the Horn of Africa.

[Reporter] More than 18.4 million voters were registered for the upcoming general elections until April 22, 2021, according to the National Election Board of Ethiopia. The voters have been registered at 41,659 polling stations.

[ENA] Voter registration for the 6th General Election has been extended by two weeks, National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) announced today.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The joint intelligence and security task force comprised of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), the Federal Police Commission, and Information Network Securi...

[Reporter] Low-quality training scheme and supply-driven education system is producing incompetent graduates and unfit workforce, a new study conducted by the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Associations (ECCSA) revealed.

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- The reaffirmation of Ethiopia's commitment to Africa Union (AU) mediation during the latest Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) talks and its ongoing campaign to garner international supports have been proved effe...

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- Ministry of Science and Higher Education said that the establishment of Ethiopian higher education quality Council is instrumental in ensuring comprehensive human development and driving Ethiopian prosperity wheel we...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ministry of Health announced that Ethiopia has been exerting enormous efforts to eliminate malaria by 2030.

[Cameroon Tribune] For more than five years now Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been seeking ways of putting in place an acceptable strategy on the filing and management of the dam.

[Cameroon Tribune] Professor Elvis Ngolle Ngolle, Political Scientist and Lecturer at IRIC, Yaounde 11 University.

[Independent (Kampala)] Comment -- Faced with a current water scarcity and a Republic of Ethiopia determined to go ahead with its second filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) this July, Sudan and Egypt have lately intensified cooperat...

[VOA] As the conflict in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region enters its sixth month, the U.N. Security Council broke its silence Thursday to call for scaled-up humanitarian access and "a restoration of normalcy."

[Balancing Act] London -- If you're not a large broadcast organization, Sub-Saharan Africa - with over 50 different markets - can be a bewildering and expensive place to do business in. Russell Southwood spoke to Colman Murray about Media Brokerage A...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A renewed violence invoicing regional security forces and the Kimant community in central Gonder, in Amhara regional states, left several people dead and displaced as well as properties damaged.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Amhara Prosperity Party (APP), the Amhara regional state chapter of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's Prosperity Party (PP), has issued a scathing criticism against the opposition, National Movement of Amhara (NaMA), accusin...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- As part of a continuation of the UNSC meeting held on April 15 at a closed door meeting at the request of the US under Any other Business (AOB), members of the SC reached at a consensus and issued a statement calling f...

[Nation] Weeks after Twitter opened its first Africa offices in the country, Ghana is on high gear in the use of technology, this time joining Kenya and Ethiopia in the use of the Covid-19 digital passport developed by the African Union (AU) through ...

[Nation] Kelibia -- Kenya Pipeline Thursday continued their bright start at the African Clubs Championships with a 3-0 (25-15, 25-17, 25-7) win over Ethiopia's National Alcohol at Aissa Ben Nasr Arena here in Kelibia, Tunisia.

[UN] The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Dinh Quy Dang (Viet Nam):

[Ethiopian Herald] Two years ago Ethiopia has announced a vision of planting some 10 million indigenous trees in three years. This year the country has been preparing to hit the target set of planting some six billion trees.

[Ethiopian Herald] One has put in social media communication peculiarly in Facebook a message reads, "The prices of all commodities like 'Teff' and cereals, that of vegetables, beer, beef and you name it alarmingly rise, but my salary remains stagnan...

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDISS ABABA- Technical and Vocational Education and Training Institutes (TVETI) need to work in partner with universities to produce internationally competent, productive and civic minded citizens, said Ministry of Science and Hig...

[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is set to hold the 6th general elections in the coming June, 2021. All necessary preparations are underway so as to conduct credible election and contending political parties are campaigning with registration of voters con...

[Ethiopian Herald] Last week the Ministry of trade and industry issued a timely regulation which allowed companies to import basic food items like rice, flour and other food items on duty free. Over the last two years, particularly in the advent of C...

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA--The government, National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE), Civil Society Organization and other concerned bodies have to combine efforts so as to overcome election related challenges , so said Ethiopian Citizens for ...

[African Arguments] The secrecy around presidents' deaths perpetuates stigmas and misses a huge opportunity for public health promotion.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- International Clinical Laboratories (ICL) has launched free Covid-19 testing program for 50,000 people in Tigray. The Laboratory kicked off the massive campaign earlier this week in collaboration with Tigray Health Bur...

[Ethiopian Herald] There are people in our country who are preparing to use the upcoming election as an opportunity to seize to make their voice heard, not using the normal ways, but the illegal and undesirable one which is by using the threats of vi...

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[Ethiopian Herald] The Coronavirus pandemic still remains to be a huge threat for senior citizens across the world. In a research conducted on more than 44 thousand COVID-19 patients in China, around 2.3 percent of the death rate was on the patients ...