Ethiopia

An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa. The world’s eyes are now on the geostrategic Red Sea waterways where Yemen’s Ansar Allah fighters have stopped Israeli and Israel-bound ships from passing. Other regional tensions have come into play since Ethiopia signed a Memorandum of […]

Media Contact 202-226-8467 Washington, D.C. – The House Foreign Affairs Committee announced the Subcommittee on Africa will convene a hearing entitled, “Ethiopia: Promise or Perils, The State of U.S. Policy” on Thursday, November 30th. What: Hearing – “Ethiopia: Promise or Perils, The State of U.S. Policy” Date: Thursday, November 30th, 2023 Time: 10:00am ET Location: HVC-210 […]

Addis Ababa [Ethiopia], August 8 : Following a one-on-one discussion with Ethiopia’s deputy prime minister, Japan’s foreign minister expressed hope that his country and Ethiopia will cooperate on the revival of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, according to Voice of America (VOA). Further, according to the VOA report, the Japanese foreign minister expressed optimism that […]

[1/2] U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visits a U.N. Logistics Center Warehouse accompanied by USAID/Ethiopia Mission Director Sean Jones and Ethiopian Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia March 15, 2023. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri/Pool/File Photo Food diverted in ‘coordinated campaign’

The United States suspended all food aid to Ethiopia on Thursday, citing “widespread and coordinated” theft of the contributions in a country where at least 20 million people need donated food. The United States is by far the largest aid donor to Ethiopia, with 120 million people, Africa’s second most populous country, so the impact […]

In Ethiopia, China and the US map rival roads to lasting peace  South China Morning Post Source link

JOHANNESBURG, Jan 19 (Reuters) – Ethiopia’s deputy finance minister said on Thursday that rumours the birr currency would be devalued were “completely unfounded”, as the east African country seeks an International Monetary Fund (IMF) loan after an African Union-backed ceasefire.

NAIROBI, Dec 28 (Reuters) – U.S. air safety experts say Ethiopian inspectors investigating the cause of an Ethiopian Airlines’ crash that killed nearly 160 people in 2019 did not pay enough attention to crew training and emergency procedures in their report. The United States National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), in dissenting comments included in the […]

Somalia, Ethiopia and Afghanistan top IRC’s list of countries most at risk of deteriorating humanitarian crises in 2023. IRC analysis finds the guardrails designed to protect against humanitarian crises are being weakened and dismantled by three main accelerators – conflict, climate change and economic turmoil. The 20 Watchlist countries are home to 13% of the […]

WASHINGTON, Oct 14 (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Friday that the United States was “deeply concerned” about reports of increasing violence in the conflict in northern Ethiopia. “We call on the Ethiopian National Defense Forces and Eritrean Defense Forces to immediately halt their joint military offensive and for Eritrea to […]


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