Israel has been able to conjure up strong allies since it was founded in 1948. Britain and France supported it militarily, politically and economically until it launched the Six...

The last seven days in the Middle East...

Ethiopia will start energy production at the Grand Renaissance dam in December 2020, Reuters reported the water and energy minister saying today. “750 megawatts is the planned initial production...

Ethiopia will begin moving its troops away from the border with Eritrea, senior military officials said on Friday, months after the erstwhile enemies reopened it for the first time...

Possible defects in electro-mechanical work could add four more years to the construction schedule of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). Officials said that a “grave mistake” had been...

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed Ali has offered his country’s readiness to mediate stop the fighting between the Yemeni brothers and bring peace and reconciliation to the country. This...

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) announced on Monday that it has evacuated 102 Ethiopian migrants in Yemen through Sanaa International Airport. “The organization hired a plane that carried...

Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly has said that Egypt and Ethiopia will resume negotiations over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam within the next two weeks. Madbouly met with Ethiopian Prime Minister...

According to a Reuters report, Egypt said on Sunday it would hold talks with Ethiopia in the next two weeks to iron out differences over an Ethiopian dam on...

The Ethiopian police arrested on Tuesday the former Director General of the state-owned Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), General Kinfe Dagnew while trying to flee to Sudan. The Ethiopian...

Ethiopian Airlines resumed on Friday its flights to the Somali capital Mogadishu after a 41-year suspension. The CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde Gebremariam, said in a press conference that...

Egypt is seeking to reach a “non-fragile” agreement on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, the country’s water resources and irrigation minister, Mohamed Abdel-Ati, announced yesterday. “Negotiations on the Ethiopian...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi said that his country is ready to defend the Arab Gulf states against any possible danger or “direct threat.” “If the Gulf’s security is...

This week, Israel’s cabinet approved a bill to allow 1,000 Ethiopian Jews to migrate to Israel. The bill, which was first announced in September, proposed that Ethiopian Jews who...

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mendelblit has warned government ministers that a plan to approve the immigration of 1,000 non-Jewish Ethiopians to Israel “weakens the legal rationale” for denying Palestinian...

Thousands attended 'Oromo Thanksgiving' in Ethiopia

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Thousands of Christian Orthodoxes gathered with their traditional white clothes on 26 Serptember, 2018

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The Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation announced on Wednesday that the meeting of the tripartite committee on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa,...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a ministerial committee that he would allow 1,000 Ethiopian Jews from the Falash Mura tribe to move to Israel, Israeli media reported on...

Hundreds of migrants have been relocated from government-run detention centres in Libya after being trapped by clashes between rival groups, UN and aid sources said on Thursday. The migrants were abandoned...

On Tuesday, Cairo called on Addis Ababa to push forward negotiations and reach a compromise concerning the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam to ensure Ethiopia’s development interests as well as...

Ethiopia has cancelled a contract awarded to Metals and Engineering Corporation (METEC), run by the Ethiopian defence ministry, due to repeated scheduled work delays, news agencies reported yesterday. Prime...

Ethiopia will continue to pressure the Saudi Arabian government to release the Ethiopian-born Saudi billionaire Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi, Reuters reported yesterday quoting the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abe Ahmed. In May,...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Saturday blamed a military-based local contractor for the delay in construction of a multi-billion dollar dam project on the Nile. “We have not even...

Muslims gather to perform the Eid Al-Adha prayer at Addis Ababa Stadium in Ethiopia

The United Arab Emirates plans to build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea and Ethiopia, an Ethiopian official said. The pipeline will run from Eritrea’s port city of Assab to...

Sudan yesterday announced its commitment to removing border restrictions with Ethiopia through “Joint Technical Commissions,” local media has reported. The move was said to have aimed at strengthening the...

The Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, Mohammed bin Zayed, was put in an uncomfortable situation by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali when he asked him to support the...

The engineer in charge of Ethiopia’s Grand Renaissance Dam has been found dead in the capital Addis Ababa. Police opened an investigation after the body of 53-year-old Simegnew Bekele...

Since arriving in Lebanon, Sudanese migrant worker Abdallah Afandi has been turned away from beach resorts, mistaken for a cleaner and prevented from renting an apartment – all because...