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Officials are expediting return of the displaced to their villages of origin Jemila Seid, 46, arrived in the eastern city of Dire Dawa along with many others here on September 2017, after conflict broke out along the border between Oromia…
Interns complain of poor pay, heavy workloads and repeated over-time, inadequate facilities. The protests that started recently by final-year medical students and interns working in government hospitals in Jimma town and later in Assela which was met by a crackdown…
“A regime that has been thriving on dictatorship for twenty years is not expected to reform itself in twenty months. What we are witnessing today is a reflection of this,” said Ustaz Ahmed Mustufa, member of the Ethiopian Muslim Arbitration…
Tigray security forces have detained a dozen of opposition members on Sunday in Quiha sub-city of Mekele town who were taking part in a national clean-up campaign launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Abraha Desta of Arena Tigray said. This…
At a recent public meeting organised by the newly nominated city mayor, a young woman who lives in Mermasa area of Dire Dawa depicts a city that is going through a period of polarizing tension and widespread anxiety. Her message,…
The Gedeo displacement crisis in Guji zones in the south of Ethiopia has been largely overlooked and neglected, even though it has been going on for a year. At the peak of the crisis last July over 900,000 ethnic Gedeos…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday responded to the multi-ethnic disputes on the ownership of Addis Ababa, saying that “Addis Ababa belongs to all of us.” “As to the people who are engaged in the debate, who does Addis Ababa rightly…
A prominent scholar has called on Ethiopia’s government to formulate an appropriate policy for rural development in favour of peasants to ensure agricultural productivity and raise prosperity–to ensuring that food will be available and affordable to all. Dessalegn Rahmeto, a…
Ethiopia should pursue a more multilateral approach to further amplify its voice in its relation and engagement with Eritrea and other neighbouring nations, an analyst says. Speaking at the ‘Addis Wog’ forum held on 22 March in Sheraton Addis, Abdul…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Addis Ababa on Tuesday as part of his four-day tour of East Africa. The visit has provided the French press an occasion to give attention to events in the country. Le Monde, the…