Ethiopia has announced three new confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of people infected by the virus in the country to nine. According to Ethiopia’s Health Minister Lia Tadesse, the cases involved a 44-year-old Japanese national, an 85-year-old…
Ethiopian flag-carrier Ethiopian Airlines has said that it is being improperly and negatively targeted by online postings on social media for its decision to continue operating in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The company said in a statement that…
Country bans public events as coronavirus cases hit five Chinese billionaire Jack Ma to donate test kits, masks to every African state The head of Oromia’s education bureau, Dr. Tola Beriso, has tested negative for coronavirus. Tola told BBC Amharic…
(This is the second installment in a three-part series looking at the memoir written by the Ethiopian intellectual, freedom fighter and opposition politician, Andargachew Tsige. Find the first part here.) Andargachew Tsigie’s narrative tells the emergence of Addis Ababa as…
(This is the first installment in a three-part series looking at the memoir written by the Ethiopian intellectual, freedom fighter and opposition politician, Andargachew Tsige.) Andargachew Tsigie and Meles Zenawi became friends- or more precisely, card-playing partners – one Christmas break…
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki posited that the reason why the demarcation of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been stalled is the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)’s refusal to return the occupied territory back to Eritrea. « The real reason…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said his administration is working hard to overcome the myriad of challenges that the country is facing despite « the politics of conspiracy and intrigue. » During a parliament question-and-answer session on Monday, Abiy said the intricate networks…
The vice-chair and an executive committee member of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), Fetlework Gebregziabher (known as Monjorino) said she was fired not because of poor performance but solely for her dissenting political stance. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed dismissed…
As the death toll from the deadly coronavirus has jumped to 81, hundreds of Ethiopian nationals stranded in the Chinese city of Wuhan are demanding to be repatriated. Several countries have promised to repatriate their nationals blocked in China. The…
Yonas Admassu, who died February 11 at age 71, was a writer who made lasting contributions to Ethiopian literature as a poet, essayist, literary critic, and editor. Dr. Yonas, who was an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethiopian Languages…