“Mogachoch” Writer Left Show After Argument
A writer for “Mogachoch”, the long-running hospital-based drama on the Ethiopian Broadcasting Service (EBS) has departed at the start of the first episode of season three after sparring with a...
View ArticleChachi Tadesse is to front her own TV show
Chachi Tadesse is to front her own TV show that promises to cater to young people. The show is being developed by Chachi International Art Management Plc, established in 2010 by Chachi and her husband...
View ArticleTeddy Afro supports global effort to end the AIDS epidemic
Ethiopian music star Teddy Afro joined the global movement to fast-track the AIDS response, a movement championed by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). The 38-year-old Teddy best...
View ArticleSudanese, Ethiopian, Egyptian water & foreign ministers to meet in Khartoum
(Sudan Tribune) – Water and foreign ministers of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt will meet in Khartoum on December 7-8 to discuss matters related to the controversial Renaissance Dam that Ethiopia has...
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The Buhait-Dilyibza High Elevation Road
The Buhait-Dilyibza asphalt road, a high elevation road between 3,000 -4,000 metres above sea level, is sixty percent complete. The 72Km road linking Debark to Dilyibza town, the capital of Beyeda...
View ArticleThe Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve inaugurated
The UNESCO Lake Tana Biosphere Reserve was officially inaugurated today, December 4 at Mulualem Hall in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region, located on the southern shore of the lake....
View ArticleChina to build navy base in Djibouti: Djiboutian minister
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – China is to build its first naval base in Djibouti, the Djiboutian foreign minister said Friday, in the latest sign of China’s growing international security presence. Djibouti is...
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Daniel Tegegn is set to wed Aby Merawi
Daniel Tegegn is officially engaged to his girlfriend after a year of dating. The Ethiopian actor and his fiancée, the 25-year-old Aby Merawi who is the daughter of the renowned musician Merawi Sitot...
View ArticleMoyale -the Dubai of the Horn of Africa?
Kenya and Ethiopia have signed a UN-backed trade deal worth $200m (£130m) in a bid to ease cross-border conflict. President Uhuru Kenyatta and Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn agreed the deal in the...
View ArticleAmbo University closed after riots
The main campus of the Ambo University has been closed following riots by students protesting a government plan to expand the area of the capital, Addis Ababa, into Oromia, Ethiopia Observer has...
View ArticleArt of Ethiopia opens this weekend
The eighth edition of Art of Ethiopia exhibition will be held this weekend. One of the big events in the calendar of Ethiopian art in Addis, the Sheraton annual contemporary art exhibition will open on...
View ArticleA new light on the legacy of Meles Zenawi
Two popular images dominated the perception of Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Meles Zenawi who died on 20 August 2012, at the age of 57. One was a recipe for autocracy and unaccountability, the other...
View ArticleExplosion at Mosque Wounds 24 in the Capital
(AP)- A grenade attack Friday during evening prayers wounded 24 people at the biggest mosque in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, five of them seriously, the government said. Authorities are not...
View ArticleAbune Mathias hospitalized with hypertension
The Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, Abune Mathias, suffering from hypertension, was admitted to a hospital in the United States, according to a local paper. Sendek, a weekly...
View ArticleOromo Protests death toll reaches 40, ethnic clashes reported
The death toll in Ethiopia’s ongoing protests in Oromia region climbed to at least 40, opposition group says. Chairman of the opposition Oromo Federalist Congress, Merera Gudina, said forty people have...
View ArticleSpanish nationals evacuated from Woliso
Eight Spanish nationals evacuated from Woliso town last week following the ongoing protests across the Oromia regional state, including at a number of universities. The eight men, who work for UTE...
View ArticlePublic Opinion in Ethiopia
by Ayenew Haileselassie Public opinion, says Elizabeth Noelle-Neumann, once a Nazi propagandist, is a social skin that holds society together. When she worked for the Nazi, her job was “fabricating”...
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“More like a popular uprising than an organized rebel campaign”
William Davison of Bloomberg writing from Wolenkomi, Oromia region says the ongoing Oromo protests looks more like a popular uprising than an organized rebel campaign. I’m still around 60 kilometers...
View ArticleJawar Mohammed- Rebel with a cause?
Jawar Mohammed is a controversial political activist in the Ethiopian diaspora politics, known among many for his outspoken views on the northern Christian tradition and “Abyssinian supremacy”. He...
View ArticleA new book on the Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia
A new book entitled “The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia” written by Mohammed Hassen, has just been published by James Currey Publisher. The author who is an associate professor in the...
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