Rwanda national team will begin training camp on Monday at Amahoro National Stadium to prepare for the 2018 CHAN qualifiers playoff match against Ethiopia next month. According to the president of local football governing body, Vincent Nzamwita, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) announced the playoff game after Egypt’s withdrawal. Morocco will host CHAN 2018 […]
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The Ethiopian Herald, BY FITSUM GETACHEW It is not a secret that the just commemorated 25th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide had its basic origin in ethnic politics. What once you used to be called ‘tribalism’ now more often known as ethnic’ or ‘nationality’ division seems to be a curse everywhere. We have seen in […]
by Stuart Munro-Hay The Legends of Aksum The town of Aksum is today only a small district center, not even the capital of the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray in which it is situated. However, despite this relative unimportance in modern times, Aksum’s past position is reflected by the prime place it occupies in the […]
Africa needs to start changing the way it produces and packages data and statistics to ensure its industrialization and diversification processes are backed by reliable and accurate data, Economic Commission for Africa’s Deputy Executive Secretary and Chief Economist, Abdalla Hamdok, said Monday. In welcoming remarks to delegates attending the Sixth Meeting of the Statistical Commission […]
By Maggie Fic, Reuters Ethiopia will award two telecoms licenses to multinational mobile companies, a senior official said on Friday, in the first detailed announcement of the government’s plans for opening one of the world’s last major closed telecom The government will also offer a minority stake in Ethio Telecom, the monopoly operator, and foreign […]
FANA:- The government of Ethiopia confirmed that Abadula Gemeda, Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR) had submitted a request to resign from his post. Dr Negeri Lencho, Minister of Government Communication Affairs Office told FBC yesterday that Abadula had submitted his resignation letter to the Prime Minister and his organization, the Oromo People […]
With still around 77% of its population still without access to electricity, Ethiopia has big ambitions to add more power. As Ethiopia is a volcanic country located on the East African Rift, geothermal energy is a serious proposition. Geophysical surveys in the country suggest a potential of 1,000 MW of power generation capacity with the […]
At the end of Zagwe dynasty around the 14th century, medieval Ethiopia was in disarray. Provincial warlords were battling for supremacy and the nation was on the brink of disintegrating. Ethiopia was at threat of breaking itself apart through internal fighting as its standing in the world diminished. It was at this fraught moment in time that the Kibre […]
Washington Post, By Paul Schemm ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — In a scene that would have been unimaginable just a year ago, some 200 Ethiopians in the capital debated their country’s politics, economics and expressed their fears over the rise in ethnic violence. The BBC’s “World Questions” current events program came to Addis Ababa on Monday […]
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