BBC – Maj Gen Godefroid Niyombareh announced that a national salvation committee had been set up to run the country. President Nkurunziza is currently in Tanzania meeting other East African leaders to discuss the crisis. His aide dismissed the coup claims as “a joke”. President Nkurunziza has rejected calls to postpone next month’s election. Gen
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The assistant Irrigation for Dams and Nile River Minister and spokesman for the Renaissance Dam file Alaa Yassin said the National Technical Committee (composed of 12 experts from Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia) will receive in mid-May, a technical offer from French and Dutch companies on studies done on the Ethiopian dam. Yassin said Egypt’s role
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By JTA Ethiopian Israelis clash with police on April 30 in Tel Aviv to protest racism. Ethiopian-Israeli activists called for a police officer caught on camera beating an Ethiopian-Israeli soldier to be put on trial. At a news conference Sunday in Tel Aviv, the activists also demanded that charges be dropped against protesters arrested in
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Kenya has sent a protest note to Ethiopia after the aborted presidential trip to the United States last month. It was revealed Sunday that the President’s jet turned back after Ethiopian authorities advised the pilot to change the flight course in a bid to avoid the Yemen airspace. It also emerged that President Uhuru Kenyatta’s
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Athletics legend retires (Reuters) Haile Gebrselassie, considered one of athletics’ greatest distance runners, said on Sunday (Monday NZ time) he was retiring from competitive running. The Ethiopian’s long-time manager at first said it was not the end of Gebrselassie’s career, but later issued a press release saying the runner had retired from athletics. “Running legend
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Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded five foreigners for murder and robbery, an unusually high number that adds to what Amnesty International has called a “macabre spike” in the kingdom’s executions. Two Yemenis, a Chadian, an Eritrean and a Sudanese were put to death in the Red Sea city of Jeddah, the interior ministry said in
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JUBA – A two-day border consultative meeting comprising of officials from South Sudan and Ethiopia ended with assurances that both sides would refrain from supporting any hostile groups seeking to destabilise any of the two countries. Addressing reporters on arrival at Juba airport, the governor of South Sudan’s Upper Nile state, Simon Puoc said both
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Anyone viewing the recent clashes between Ethiopian-Israeli demonstrators and local policemen in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv could not help being reminded of similar scenes taking place barely a week earlier in Baltimore. Such a clear visual link between events in two such disparate places cannot but be viewed as further testimony to the power of
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(Reuters) – A group of Ethiopians who had been kidnapped in Libya arrived at Cairo airport on Thursday after Egyptian army forces rescued them, state media quoted Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi as saying. But one Ethiopian in the group, and a Libyan source, appeared to cast doubt on that version of events, saying the
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By John Mulligan The chief executive of Aer Lingus has lashed out against Ethiopian Airways, claiming the African airline will be hogging valuable space at Dublin Airport that could be used for other carriers. Ethiopian Airways will launch a service between Addis Ababa and Los Angeles next month. The flight stops off in Dublin en-route,
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