Tag: Abiy Ahmed
Eritrea: President Isaias Tours Ethiopian Military Installations
Addis Ababa, October 14, 2020 –Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed and the Eritrean this afternoon visited the recently restructured Ethio-Engineering Group. Located in the town of Bishoftu, Oromia regional state, the company currently produces vehicles for the defense forces as well as for commercial use. Later, the two leaders also visited the Ethiopian Air Force. After…
Ethiopia: A moral dilemma for Ethiopia’s Professor Andreas Eshete
Professor Andreas Eshehe has been a controversial public intellectual in contemporary Ethiopia. Some admire him so highly while others consider him a morally corrupt person who should not be recognized as an intellectual. Those who condemn Andreas as a corrupt intellectual who does not deserve to be recognized as an intellectual offer a standard for…
Eritrea: Somali Leader arrived in Asmara, discuss progress of bilateral ties
ASMARA (HAN) October 4. 2020. Public Diplomacy, Monitoring Regional Issues. The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohammed A. Mohammed, arrived in Asmara in mid-morning hours today for 2-day working visit. President Mohammed & his delegation were accorded warm welcome by President Isaias Afwerki on arrival at Asmara International Airport. The two Heads…
Ethiopia Huge Supporter of the UN
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 22. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed said Ethiopia will remain committed to the ideals of the United Nations (UN). He made the remark at the High-level meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the UN held under the theme, ‘The…
Ethiopia: Political Violence Could Derail Democratic Transition
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 20. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY TOM GARDNER, LULE ESTIFANOS According to his wife, the late Gen. Seare Mekonnen, Ethiopia’s former army chief of staff, was assassinated by a bodyguard shortly after 9 p.m. on June 22, 2019. The general was rushed to a hospital, where…
Ethiopia: Abiy Ahmed Visits Koysha Hydropower Project 2020
Ethiopia- ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 20. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed today visited the Koysha hydropower project. With 2,160 megawatts generation capacity, the project is being built in Koysha woreda, SNNP regional state. According to the Ethiopian Electric Power, the project is now more than…
Ethiopia files terrorism charges against leading opposition Leader
Ethiopia has filed terrorism charges against a prominent media mogul and opposition politician from the Oromo ethnic group, Jawar Mohammed, the attorney general’s office said on Saturday. Jawar, founder of the Oromiya Media Network and a member of the Oromo Federalist Congress party, was arrested in June amid the widespread unrest that followed the assassination…
Ethiopia: Genuine Dialogue Creates Ground to Reconcile Polarized Views
Ethiopia- ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 19. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Ethiopia needs an all-inclusive national dialogue to navigate through fundamental issues as a ‘tragedy of the commons’ complicate the reform process, Scholars argued adding, for the proper deployment of successful dialogue, lessons should be taken from the experiences…
Ethiopia: The Ethiopian constitution as a suicide pact
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 18. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY: Adeno Addis .A constitution is the basic or fundamental law of a state. It performs several functions. It sets up a system of government—a parliamentary system, a presidential republic, or a monarchy. It then allocates power within the…
Ethiopia: Least Developed Countries need to Recommit for the 2030 Development Agenda
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) September 17. 2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Minister of the Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia in a virtually held annual ministerial meeting of the group of least Developed Countries (LDCs). The meeting aims to provide strategic guidance for the last year of implementation of the Istanbul Programme…
