Egypt and Ethiopia to hold contentious Nile dam talks in Russia: Sisi
Egypt's president said Sunday he and Ethiopia's premier are to hold talks in Russia on a dam under construction on the Nile River that Cairo fears would cut its vital water share. "I have agreed with the Ethiopian prime minister (Abiy Ahmed) to meet in ...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed awarded 2019 Nobel Peace Prize
Abiy Ahmed — the son of poor villagers who became a spy boss and now is the man behind dizzying attempts to reform Ethiopia, Africa's fastest-growing economy and heal wounds with its neighbors — has had an unpredictable and peril-strewn rise to fame. Another chapter ...
Ethiopian Airlines went into records after Boeing 737 Max crash: asylum-seeking ex-chief engineer
Ethiopian Airlines' former chief engineer says in a whistleblower complaint filed with regulators that the carrier went into maintenance records on a Boeing 737 Max jet after it crashed this year — a breach he contends was part of a pattern of corruption that ...
3.8-million-year-old Ethiopian fossil reveals face for ancestor of famed Lucy
A fossil from Ethiopia is letting scientists look millions of years into our evolutionary history — and they see a face peering back. The find, from 3.8 million years ago, reveals the face for a presumed ancestor of the species famously represented by Lucy, the ...
'Dozens' killed in foiled Ethiopia coup attempt, regional government reveals
Dozens of people were killed in fighting during a foiled coup by a rogue state militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region over the weekend, the regional government spokesman said on Wednesday, the first official report of significant clashes. The militia attacked the police headquarters, ruling party ...
Ethiopia's army chief was shot dead by his bodyguard just hours after an attempted coup in Amhara state left the regional president and another top adviser dead, a spokeswoman for Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Sunday. Spokeswoman Billene Seyoum told journalists a "hit squad" led ...
Sudan protesters accept Ethiopian proposal for political transition
Sudanese protest leaders on Saturday accepted the creation of a civilian-majority governing body for a political transition in Sudan as proposed by an Ethiopian envoy. The compromise blueprint suggests the creation of a 15-member governing body comprising of eight civilians and seven members of the ...
Former U.S. defense chiefs and Ethiopian ex-leader to be decorated in Japan
Former U.S. defense secretaries Chuck Hagel and Ashton Carter, as well as former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, will be among 142 foreign nationals recognized in this year's spring awards for notable contributions to relations between Japan and their countries, the government said Tuesday. The ...
One victim of March attack in Ethiopia is identified as Japanese national
One of the five fatal victims in an attack by an armed group in Ethiopia in March has been identified as a Japanese woman in her 40s, the Japanese Embassy in the African country said Saturday. The embassy has not disclosed the woman's name upon ...
Japanese citizen believed to be among 5 miners killed by gunmen in Ethiopia
Five miners in Ethiopia were shot dead by unidentified gunmen earlier this week and the Japanese Embassy is trying to confirm media reports Thursday that one of the victims was a Japanese citizen. The victims, who included three Ethiopians and an Indian, were attacked in ...
Deadly plane crash a setback for Ethiopia's rise
The crown jewel in Ethiopia's transformation to a continental power in recent years has been its state-owned airline that calls itself "the new spirit of Africa." Sunday's crash of an Ethiopian Airlines jet that killed 157 people has set back those grand designs that were ...
Ethiopian jetliner smoked, strewed debris and shuddered before death plunge, say witnesses
The Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed killing all 157 people aboard was making a strange rattling noise and trailed smoke and debris as it swerved above a field of panicked cows before hitting earth, according to witnesses. Flight 302 took off from the Ethiopian capital ...
