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Many theories but little evidence of why employees were shot dead Attack follows labour dispute and three years of protests in Oromia Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has to satisfy elites and demonstrators Last week’s daytime shooting of Dangote Cement’s Indian…
Sebhat Nega, a founding member of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), has stepped down from his position as General Director of a government think tank, according to Fana Broadcasting Corporation. Although the move by the 84-year-old veteran is hardly…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ousted Zeray Asgedom who served as director general of the Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority (EBA) for five years, in the latest upheaval of change of guards of the agency that has mandate to regulate the broadcasting and…
The Oslo-based renowned Oromo exile and leader of the Oromo Democratic Forum (ODF), Lencho Leta, along with the deputy, Dima Nageo, would be coming to Addis Ababa for “substantive talks” with government officials, responding to Abiy Ahmed’s gesture towards dialogue,…
The Ethiopian government is to release Ethiopian-born Swedish heart surgeon Fikru Maru who has been in prison since 2013 and several political detainees from prison. The county’s attorney general on Friday dropped charges against Dr. Fikru Maru and other 61…
In what could be seen a victory for protestors, suspension order issued for Midroc’s Legadembi gold mining permit until further “in-depth study” is conducted by independent body.The Ethiopian Ministry of Mines, Petroleum and Natural Gas has just announced that the…
Amid increasing anger, the protests in Shakiso and Adola areas of Oromia region in south-eastern Ethiopia are growing, demanding the cancellation of gold mining license owned by Ethiopian- Saudi billionaire Mohammed al-Amoudi. A general strike and widespread protests paralyzed Shakiso…
Mahmoud Ahmed is one of Ethiopia’s greatest performers, whose career started in the country’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’60s and ’70s when a thriving indigenous jazz and funk scene swept the nation. Since his first trip abroad in 1994, he…
Two Ethiopians have been named among 50 most influential Africans of 2018 by the prestigious Paris-based Jeune Afrique Magazine. According to April–May 2018 edition of the magazine, Microsoft 4Afrika regional director, Amrote Abdella and a South-Africa based astrophysicist, Yabebal Fantaye…
Many political prisoners are still locked up in Ethiopia in the wake of the appointment of a new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed a month ago. Two members of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC) who remain behind bars under dubious circumstances…