[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The overall construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has exceeded 84 percent, GERD Manager Kifle Horo said.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially commenced today partial power generation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam that has been built in Guba, Benishangul Gumuz Regional State.

[RFI] Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated electricity production at the controversial, multi-billion-euro Grand Renaissance dam on the Blue Nile on Sunday. Downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan view the project as a threat to their share ...

[ENA] Today February 20, 2020 is another day of victory registered by the people and government of Ethiopia adding to a checklist of victories the country has registered and continued to mark in the month of February every year.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Water is flowing to Sudan and Egypt as usual while generating power to the Ethiopian people who do not want to starve and thirst the people of Sudan and Egypt, Prime Minister Abiy said today.

[Ethiopian Herald] Amnesty International's latest report that exposed the terrorist TPLF forces execution of crimes against humanity in Kobo and Chena towns of the Amhara State put the longstanding TPLF's tactic of putting itself in the victim's side...

[DW] The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, which pushed Ethiopia into a longstanding dispute with Egypt and Sudan, started generating electricity on Sunday, according to officials.

[Addis Standard] Germany is providing assistance to the tune of 20 million Euro via the United Nations in order to mitigate the suffering from the ongoing severe drought in parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Ethiopia will start generating electricity from its controversial dam on the river Nile on Sunday, officials have said.

[Addis Standard] Humo Ibrahim, a resident of the Afar region bordering Tigray, where the ongoing fighting in northern Ethiopia has escalated, is deeply saddened by the loss of his wife and five children in a recent military attack. Residents and volu...

[Ethiopian Herald] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said the draft bill H.R. 6600, which was introduced by U.S.

[Ethiopian Herald] "When they told my husband to go outside and kneel down, I told them that he was just a breadwinner of the family doing barber job and he has never engaged in politics or minded on government affairs.

[Ethiopian Herald] In the period beginning in July 2021 in which they exercised control over parts of the Amhara region, Tigrayan fighters have committed widespread rape and other forms of sexual violence against ethnic Amhara women and girls in seve...

[Ethiopian Herald] Some Western forces are alarmed by the new political dynamics which Ethiopia and Eritrea have created in the Horn of Africa and consider the partnership as a great threat for their interest in the strategic region, Eritreanbased in...

[DW] Nearly 7 million people in Ethiopia's drought-hit regions need urgent help after a third failed rainy season devastates pastoralist communities.

[VOA] Geneva -- The U.N. refugee agency said Friday that the whereabouts of thousands of Eritrean refugees remained unknown two weeks after their camp came under attack in Ethiopia's northern Afar region.

[UN News] Thousands of Eritrean refugees sheltering at a camp in the Ethiopian Afar region, have fled following a deadly attack on the facility earlier this month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday.

[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopian Airlines has announced that it plans to put its Boeing's 737 Max back to service for the first time since the aircraft model was involved in a crash that claimed 157 lives three years ago. Chrystal Zhang has studie...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The main opposition party in the Somali region, the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF), released a statement on 16 February denouncing the Somali regional government for what it called "disinformation" and accused...

[VOA] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Ethiopian lawmakers voted Tuesday to lift a state of emergency in place since November, enacted when forces from the Tigray region threatened to move in on the capital. Tigrayan forces later pulled back to Tigray in lat...

[AI London] Numerous eyewitness accounts of civilian killings, gang-rapes and looting of medical facilities and schools in Kobo and Chenna

[allAfrica] Cape Town -- Members of Parliament in Ethiopia voted to end the country's state of emergency, which was declared in November and set to last for six months.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba - Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) and the U.S. Government welcomed the 15 February lifting by the Ethiopian parliament of the war-time state of emergency, which was put in place since early November last year. Ho...

[VOA] Addis Ababa -- Rights groups Amnesty International says Tigrayan fighters have committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity as they were withdrawing from Ethiopia's Amhara region.

[Addis Standard] In a statement it released today, the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) said Ethiopia's planned national dialogue is aimed at and considering the establishment of consensus between the people of Ethiopia.

[Ethiopian Herald] Right after the terrorist TPLF forces were expelled from the Afar State, Halima Mohammed, a mother, and her neighbors turned their face to pursue their daily lives without fear and have made every attempts to restore what had been ...

[Ethiopian Herald] American political Analyst said that America's humanitarian imperialism has always been malicious and over 110 million people will be collectively punished as part of the U.S.' tacit regime change campaign against PM Abiy motivated...

[Ethiopian Herald] The proposed H.R.6600 bill, which facilitates the U.S. unjustified intervention in Ethiopia's conflict, is not the right tool to bring sustainable solutions to address human rights violations in the latter, the Ethiopian Human Righ...

[Ethiopian Herald] Doctors for Ethiopia has called on Ethiopians, friends of Ethiopia all concerned to restore health facilities wrecked by terrorist TPLF through a coordinated and well organized manner.

[Addis Standard] Amnesty International in a new report revealed that fighters connected with the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front (TPLF) deliberately killed scores of people, gang-raped dozens of women and children - some as young as 14 - and plund...