[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- State run EPA announced names of seven member "peace negotiation team" appointed by the federal government "to resolve the crisis in the northern part of the country."

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the Ethiopian Government "regrets the loss of life as a result of a skirmish between the Sudanese army and a local militia of which an investigation would be carried out soon."

[DW] Sudan summoned the Ethiopian ambassador in Khartoum on Monday amid deepening tensions, claiming that the neighboring country's army had kidnapped and executed seven of its soldiers and a civilian.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- With the increasing risk of famine in the Horn of Africa due to severe and prolonged drought conditions, urgent life-saving and livelihood assistance is needed to avert a humanitarian catastrophe, the Food and Agricult...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Shares in KEFI Gold & Copper PLC fell Monday morning amid press reports referring to a loss of the license for its Tulu Kapi gold project in Ethiopia.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Gedion Timothewos, Minister of Justice of Ethiopia and Central Committee member of the ruling Prosperity Party (PP), said that the Central Committee and the Executive Committee members of the party have "put a directio...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- In a statement it released this morning, the Ethiopian joint security and intelligence task force, which is comprised of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF), ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Over 500 Ethiopian migrants are stranded in Malawi and would like to return to their communities of origin, according to a verification exercise conducted by the Ethiopian authorities with support from the Internationa...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The opposition National Movement of Amhara (NaMA) requested Speaker of the House of People's Representatives, Tagesse Chafo, to call on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to appear before Parliament to explain why his governmen...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- If the late professor Mesfin Woldemarian penned "Somalia: The Problem child of Africa" to defend Derg policies in 1977, it is fitting for a rejoinder to write "Somalia: The Emerging Light of Electoral Democracy." After...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A financing agreement amounting to US$ 600 million (US$ 200 million in the form of grant and US$ 400 million in the form of credit), was signed today between the World Bank and Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Defendants under the Qasim Abdullahi file, accused of conspiring to form 'The Oromia National Transitional Government Committee' and two ONN journalists had an appearance yesterday, at Oromia Supreme court on the 23rd ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee unanimously passed bipartisan Senate resolution on Thursday "condemning the use of starvation and hunger as weapons of war," according to a statement from the Committee.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The brewery giant HEINEKEN Ethiopia today officially introduced its latest product, "BERTAT", a non-alcoholic Energy drink, to the Ethiopian Market. The new nonalcoholic Energy drink was unveiled.at a ceremony attended...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Oromo Federalist Congress(OFC) and Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) have put a call out for independent investigations into the killing of civilians in the Tole village of Gimbi district in the West Wollega zone of the...

[DW] Abdela Mohammed spent 13 "unbearable" months languishing in an overcrowded Saudi detention center before being repatriated back to Ethiopia in May.

[VOA] Semera -- Internally displaced persons in northern Ethiopia's Afar region have been leaving some camps due to lack of food and shelter. The U.N., warning that returning home may not prove any better, is calling for more international support.

[Dabanga] El Gedaref -- The Technical Committee for the Demarcation of the Administrative Borders of the three states of eastern Sudan has completed its first exploratory tour in El Gedaref state. A separate committee is working to restore authentic ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Oromia police in Burayu, in Oromia regional state Special Zone Surrounding Finfinne, failed to bring four high-ranking officials of the opposition Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) to a district court for a hearing adjourne...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Ambassador Meles Alem, who was Ethiopia's Ambassador to Kenya until recently, returned to Ministry of Foreign Affairs as the new Spokesperson replacing Ambassador Dina Mufti, who was at the position for the last two ye...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on Thursday urged Ethiopian authorities to hold prompt, impartial and thorough investigations into attacks that led to the killing of hundreds of people in the We...

[UN News] Hunger is tightening its grip on more than 20 million Ethiopians who are facing conflict in the north, drought in the south and dwindling food and nutrition support beginning next month, the UN food relief agency warned on Thursday.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Farmers in parts of northern Ethiopia are in serious danger of losing the main planting season (June-August) if they do not receive urgent support from the international community to sow their fields, which would furth...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- "The European Union should reconsider its biased stance on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam," Ambassador Dina Mufti, the spokesperson of the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), said today at the Ministry's...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A staff team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), led by Sonali Jain-Chandra, visited Ethiopia for a technical staff visit with the Ethiopian authorities during June 13-17. The purpose of the staff visit was to ...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Executive Committee of the ruling Prosperity Party (PP) sets directions to intensify the "law enforcement measures" that are being conducted against armed groups in the country that are accused of carrying out atta...

[VOA] Addis Ababa, Ethiopia -- Ethiopia is refuting reports of a fuel shortage in the embattled Tigray region.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- Gold suppliers to the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) are poised to get a premium of 35 %, an increase from 29 %, according to Takele Uma, Minister of Mines and Petroleum. The incentive is in addition to the internatio...

[VOA] Semera, Ethiopia -- A dirty stream stems from Ethiopia's Awash River, a lifeline for locals and their main water source for bathing, washing, cooking, and drinking. Ethiopia is reeling from the worst drought to hit the Horn of Africa in 40 year...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- A wave of arrests swept over Arsi and West Arsi zones of the Oromia region, residents said. Families of detainees who spoke to Addis Standard complained of intensified arrests of civilians under the pretext of having c...