ADDISSTANDARD By Mahelt Fasil A judge at the Arada First Instance Court, First Bench, told the police this morning to finalize its investigations and bring charges against three independent journalists and three members of the blog Zone9 detained without charges since 25th and 26th of April this year. Defense lawyer Amha Mekonnen told journalists at
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Ethiopian Airliness Press Release Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has won the 2014 Airline Reliability Performance Award from Bombardier Aerospace. Ethiopian has won the award four years in a row. The award was given to Ethiopian for achieving an average dispatch reliability rate
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By Pierre Crabitès Foreign Affairs October 1929 THE Egyptian Gazette of May 9, 1929, carried the text of an agreement on the long-debated question as to the use of the waters of the River Nile. The agreement, which recognizes on the one hand.that the Sudan needs more water for its development, and on the other hand that
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World Bulletin Kuwait’s Ambassador in Addis Ababa on Thursday said that his country made efforts to ensure that a suspension of Egypt’s African Union (A.U.) activities would be reserved. “The efforts Kuwait makes to ensure that this suspension is lifted boil down to Egypt’s importance and its role in the pan-African body, Rashed Faleh al-Hajri
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By Elissa Jobson in Addis Ababa Thw Africa Report Photo Credits: Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Evan Schneider/UN), Debretsion Gebremichael (All Rights Reserved), Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi (All Rights Reserved) Prime Minister Hailemariam is developing a style of consensual politics, but some politicans and businessmen are having difficulty adjusting. The passing of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in August 2012
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World Bulletin/News Desk The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said Thursday that it had noticed a shift in Egypt’s stance regarding its multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam, currently being built on the Nile’s upper reaches, which Cairo has long feared would reduce its traditional share of water. “Egyptians have begun to show willingness… to resolve the Nile water dispute
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MISNA Bthcristine Sudan plans to export fresh water to Arab Gulf states in the future depending on the available water from the Nile River, based on a study carried out in December in Riyadh. According to Gawdat alla Osman, director of the Water Commission in the state of Khartoum, the sale would allow Saudi Arabia
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By David H. Shinn Inernational Policy Digest Liu Zhen/China News Service Ethiopia was never colonized and along with China has a long imperial history. China’s imperial period came to an end with the fall of the Qing dynasty and formation of the Republic of China as a constitutional republic in 1912. The overthrow of Emperor
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By Ramadan Al Sherbini Gulf News Cairo: Egypt and Ethiopia are making serious efforts to defuse tensions that have marred the two African countries’ relations for more than a year, experts said. Egypt’s new President Abdul Fattah Al Sissi signalled a thaw in ties with Addis Ababa earlier this week when he said in an
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Emirates247 An Ethiopian housemaid in Saudi Arabia committed a suicide after learning of her parent’s death in her home country, a newspaper reported on Thursday. Sabq quoted police as saying the maid, in her 20s, was found dead by her employer in the back garden of his house in the northern town of Khafji. Police
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