Sidama campaigners expect a referendum within a year on becoming a region after the Zone Administration in Hawassa voted for statehood. The constitutional demand follows deadly ethnic violence in southern Ethiopia and elsewhere in the country during the recent national…
In 2016, Yakob Yatane joined a committee seeking autonomy for his Konso people. When the community split over tactics amid government repression, he was captured by hardliner protesters before soldiers rescued him. Months later, Yakob was among hundreds charged with…
There have been three days of unrest in Hawassa in southern Ethiopia with at least one fatality and many injured after Sidama protesters’ demand for their own regional state was accompanied by violence. Police and soldiers are trying to control…
The Ethiopian government will offer shares to foreign investors in its major public enterprises, including Ethiopian Airlines, the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front said in a statement. The state will retain the largest stakes in Ethio Telecom, Ethiopian Airlines,…
Experts project only 6 percent chance of low Blue Nile flow Ethiopia’s latest plan was to start filling reservoir this year Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan still discussing how to mitigate risk International experts have projected an above average flow in the…