A 65-year-old patient became the third person known to be infected with the coronavirus to die in Ethiopia, Minister of Health Lia Tadesse said on Friday, as the number of people contracting the virus continued to mount. The death of…
Ethiopia on Tuesday reported another 8 new coronavirus cases, including a nine-month-old baby, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 52, Ethiopia’s Health Minister Lia Tadesse just announced. The eight new cases were recorded from 264 tests…
As two confirmed cases have appeared in the city, officials and residents have begun to brace for the possibility of a widespread outbreak. There is growing anxiety in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia’s third-largest city after the city saw its first two…
Ethiopia has registered its first coronavirus death since the outbreak began, the Ethiopian Public Health Institute announced. A 60-year-old woman, who was in critical condition after being admitted to Eka Kotebe hospital, succumbed to the disease, marking the first death…
Loss of livelihood and lack of food due to containment measures and quarantine orders threaten a large part of the country’s population and could kill more people than the COVID-19, warns this writer. Coronavirus has started hitting Ethiopia, so it…
Ethiopia puts forward a 15 billion birr as liquidity for private banks to support businesses State Minister of Finance announced plans for larger measures depending on the impact of the pandemic The Ethiopian government is considering schemes to mitigate…
A police officer has shot and killed a young man in Tigray as the region imposed a curfew amid efforts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, according to reports. The officer shot and killed Hagos Nigus in Naeder…
Daniel Gebre, 34, drives a dilapidated Lada taxi. From his usual stand at Haya Hulet, he navigates his clients to different parts of Addis Ababa. He said business is slow these days, with customers opting for Ride, an Uber-style ride-sharing…
Reacting to PM Abiy’s recent harsh and indiscriminate detraction of African and, specifically, of Ethiopian intellectuals, comments were quick to flow that, not only contested the criticisms, but more seriously exposed their dangerous implications, the most glaring of them being…
Ethiopia has fewer confirmed Coronavirus cases, but fears grow about what happens if the country starts to experience a broader outbreak and how the health system would cope with it. Almaz Shiferaw, 45, wins her livelihood as a retailer of…