6-10-2016 Engineer Hailu Shawul, one of Ethiopia’s prominent and affluent civil engineers and former Chairman of the opposition, Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) during the 2005 General Election, has died, VoA Amharic has reported. He was also one of the founders and later leader of the All Amhara Peoples Organisation (AAPO) now the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP). Hailu died at the ... Read More »
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Former ELPA, Ethiopian National Team footballer, then Eritrean Ambassador to UN, Girma Asmerom dies: ESAT
ESAT News (October 6, 2016) Ambassador Girma Asmerom, Eritrea’s Permanent Representative at the United Nations, has passed away in New York three days ago, sources confirmed to ESAT. Amb. Girma Asmerom was a former Eritrean ambassador to the European Union, African Union and Ethiopia. Details of his bio remains scanty but Ambassador Girma grew up in Ethiopia and was a ... Read More »
Panicking TPLF (EPRDF) shifts blames from Facebook to Egypt for protest
6-10-2016 The Tigrean People’s Liberation Front (TPLF/EPRDF), has been staggering since November 2015 when anti-government protests began in the Oromo region of Ethiopia. Now that the protests have spread to Amhara region, Konso and higher education institutions, and especially, following the re-ignition of protests in post the Irreca Massacre last week, the TPLF government has now shifted its blame game ... Read More »
Ethiopian protesters attack foreign companies, economy’s stability questioned
by: John Aglionby and Edith Honan in Nairobi Ethiopian anti-government protesters are escalating attacks on foreign investors as anger grows over the regime’s crackdown on demonstrations, in which hundreds of people have been killed. Activists torched a Turkish textile factory and attacked a mine owned by Aliko Dangote, Africa’s richest man, damaging trucks and machinery on Tuesday, days after more ... Read More »
U.S. citizen killed, foreign factories attacked in Ethiopia
5-10-2016 By Aaron Maasho | ADDIS ABABA A U.S. citizen was killed and foreign-owned factories and equipment damaged during a wave of protests over land and political rights in Ethiopia this week. The U.S. Embassy said the American woman was killed on Tuesday when stones were hurled at her vehicle on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, where residents said crowds ... Read More »
Addis Ababa protesting, transport stops, businesses closing
4-10-2016 The peripheries of Ethiopia’s capital city Addis Abeba: Akaki, AlemGena, Burayu,Sebeta, Keta and Ayer Tena have been hit with anti government protests today. As a possible effect of this, businesses in the city center, Merkato and Piassa closed their doors early. Transportation(taxi) to and from the places, where protests are going on has been stopped. Businesses, vehicles and properties ... Read More »
In second advisory in weeks, Israel issues Travel Warning for Ethiopia
BY TIMES OF ISRAEL STAFF October 4, 2016 Israel’s Foreign Ministry advised its nationals to stay away from regions of Ethiopia at the center of protests against the Addis Ababa government, in the second such warning since the start of September. As with the previous travel warning, Jerusalem advised Israeli travelers to avoid the Amhara and Oromia districts, which include ... Read More »
New anti-government protests break out in Ethiopia
Emmanuel Igunza BBC Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 3-10-2016 Fresh anti-government demonstrations have erupted in several towns in Ethiopia a day after dozens of people died during a protest in the Oromia region. The government has declared three days of mourning following the deaths that occurred during a religious festival in the largest region in the country. Reuters People at the ... Read More »