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Ethiopia set to build a national data center
Addis Globe, Septemebr 26, 2020 Ahmedin Mohammed (PhD), state minister for Innovation & Technology, has said that his office has completed the preliminary design of…
Oromia, Amhara Parties reached interim agreement
Addis Globe, September 23, 2020 Twelve political parties active in Amhara and Oromia Regional States, including Prosperity Party, have signed an interim agreement to work…
Tourism and sporting events to resume in Ethiopia
Addis Globe, September 23, 2020 Ethiopia has lifted restrictions imposed on tourism and sporting events. The House of People’s Representatives (HPR), in its urgent session,…
Ethiopia reports 689 daily COVID-19 cases – September 20, 2020
Ethiopia reported 689 new cases of COVID-19 on September 20, 2020. The figure brings the caseload to 68,820. The Ministry of Health also reported 7 deaths,…
Demonetization in Ethiopia and its effects
This week Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Government revealed the new currency note. During the announcement of the introduction of the new notes, Prime Minister Abiy…
Balderas for True Democracy denounces terrorism charges against its top members
Eskinder Nega, a prominent journalist who is the founder and later Chairman of the Balderas for True Democracy party, and his deputy Sintayehu Chekol were…
Reconsidering the 1995 Ethiopian Constitution
Ethiopia had three written constitutions (in 1931, 1955 and 1987) before the 1995 FDRE Constitution. The current Ethiopian Constitution entered into force on 21 August…
Ethiopia introduced new notes to curb financing of illicit activities
Addis Globe, September 14, 2020 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s Government revealed the new currency note on Monday. During the announcement of the introduction of the…
MFPA Best Player Award 2020 goes to Loza Abera
Addis Globe, September 19, 2020 Ethiopian female footballer Loza Abera was voted by fans as the Best Player from the Female Division in the 2019-20…
African e-commerce is getting a boost from DFC
Addis Globe, September 13, 2020 The landscape of trade is constantly evolving. And the way that goods and services cross borders is transforming. Businesses today…
Today is Enkutatash – the Ethiopian New Year
Addis Globe, September 11, 2020. Ethiopia, a country that follows a calendar seven years behind the Gregorian one, welcomes a new calendar year of 2013…
Ethiopian PM believes parliamentary election within a year
Addis Globe, September 2020. Due to COVID-19 pandemic, Ethiopia has postponed the national election that was scheduled for August. Ethiopia’s parliament has made a decision…
Obang Metho’s New Year Message
Obang Metho, human rights defender and advocate for peace, justice, and reconciliation, sends his New Year wishes to all Ethiopians. In his message he emphasizes…
Eviction of Ethiopians in Addis Ababa (1937 -1939)
Ethiopia was in 1934 one of the few independent states in a European-dominated Africa. A border incident between Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland that December gave…
Addis Ababa in times of Italian occupation
During the Italian fascist occupation of Ethiopia (1936-1941) the authorities considered the idea of moving the capital to the low lands and nearer the sea….
