Liyat Fekade Addis Abeba, September 24/2018 – Addis Abeba residents are expressing their shocks  and frustrations on what they said was a “mass arrest” of the city’s youth by the police without due court proceeds over the last few days. The Addis Abeba city police on its part said it …

Zecharias Zelalem  Addis Abeba, September 21/2018 – Monday September 17, Addis Abeba’s residents took to the streets to denounce a spate of violence that shocked the country the weekend before. A large crowd had gathered just outside the headquarters of state broadcaster Ethiopian Television as well as the city’s center …

  The nine members of ODP/EPRDF EC AS staffs Addis Abeba, September 21/2018 – The just completed 9th organizational conference of the newly renamed Oromo Democratic Party (ODP) has elected nine members of its executive committee, who will also be also part of EPRDF’s Executive Committee. Accordingly the following nine …

  Addis Abeba, September 18/2018 – Ethiopian officials led by Ahmed Shide, Federal communication minister & Chairman of the Somali People’s Democratic Party (SPDP), and representatives of the the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) led by its Chairman Admiral Mohamed Omar have discussed “modalities of peace talks in Asmara [Eritrea] …

Agreement on Peace, Friendship and Comprehensive Cooperation Between the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea   The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea, hereinafter referred to as the Two Parties; Considering the close bonds of geography, history, culture and religion between the …

Mahlet Fasil Addis Abeba, September 2018 – The number of civilians killed in in Burayu in a spate of day & night organized attacks has reached at least twenty three  according to the Oromia region police commission Commissioner General Alemayehu Ejigu. The number could increase, he said. The attacks, which …

Messay Kebede, For Addis Standard Addis Abeba, September 14/2018 – Ethiopians have obviously a manifest difficulty in understanding rationally both the rise of Dr. Abiy Ahmed to premiership and his implementation of far-reaching changes. Here is a man who comes from the ranks of the coalition of political parties known …

  A video sent to Addis Standard yesterday by an eye witness who was at the scene near St. Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College shows a group of young people waiving the unofficial green, yellow and red flag and shouting “this is the flag” while a voice in the background …

PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki exchanging pleasantries with Debretsion Gebremichael, deputy president of Tigray regional state yesterday during yesterday’s reopening of Bure and Zalambesa border crossings Semungus H. Gebrehiwot, for Addis Standard  Addis Abeba, September 12/2018 – A historic paradigm shift is underway in the Horn of Africa …

Displaced civilians from the Gedeo and West Guji zones of SNNPR and Oromia regional states, respectively Addis Abeba, September 12/2018 – Ethiopia has seen the highest number of people forced to flee their homes within their country in the first half of 2018, according to the IDMC report on global …