Category: Ethiopia
Ethiopia: Concerns about recruitment and use of child soldiers by TPLF
New York (HAN) December 25, 2020. Regional security and updates from the Horn of Africa initiatives Sudan and TPLF child soldiers concerns. Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the UnitedNations, Taye Atske Selassie conferred with Ms. Virginia Gamba, Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict. Ambassador Taye Atske Selassie updated the…
Ethiopia sets national election for June 5, 2021
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia will hold a parliamentary election on June 5, 2021, its National Electoral Board said on Friday, after postponing the vote from August this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chairman of the winning party becomes prime minister. Ethiopia has a federal system comprising 10 regions with freedom to set some…
Ethiopia Sudan Relations Too Deep To Be Shaken By Conspirators
Addis Ababa, December 24, 2020 –Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said the historical relations between Ethiopia and Sudan are too deep to be shaken by the desire of conspirators. In a statement issued in Arabic language today, he said, the social and cultural relations and bonds between the people of the two nations go back to…
Ethiopian military ‘kills 42 people involved in deadly attack’
Ethiopia’s military has killed 42 armed men accused of taking part in a massacre in the western Benishangul-Gumuz region, state-affiliated Fana TV reported on Thursday. On Wednesday, the country’s human rights commission said gunmen killed more than 100 people in a dawn attack in the village of Bekoji, Benishangul-Gumuz. Fana TV, citing regional officials, reported that soldiers…
Ethiopia: Israel Recognizes Law Enforcement Measures
Addis Ababa, December 24, 2020- Israeli Ambassador to Ethiopia, Raphael Morav said Israel has recognizes the law enforcement measures Ethiopia has carried out to maintain law and order. The assertion came at a time when Chairperson of the Foreign Relations and Peace Affairs Standing Committee of the House of Peoples Representatives, Dr. Negeri Lencho briefed…
Operations To Restore Law And Order In Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
When I took office as Prime Minister of Ethiopia in April 2018, I had only one driving mission for my premiership – to put my country and people on a path to lasting peace and prosperity. I vowed to myself, my family and my people, in private and in public, that I would never resort…
Ethiopia & Sudan Discuss Ways To Better Use Port Sudan
Addis Ababa, December 22, 2020 -An Ethiopian delegation led by Minister of Transport, Dagmawit Moges, yesterday met with Sudan’s Minister of Infrastructure and Transport. The two sides discussed ways that help Ethiopia better use Port Sudan, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Besides identifying the bottlenecks encountered in using the port, the meeting aimed…
Ethiopia: Meles Zenawi’s Daughter Arrested
ADDIS ABABA (HAN) December 21.2020. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. The daughter of former Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been arrested. Her mother Azeb Mesfin told the BBC that Semhal Meles was arrested in Mekelle, Tigray. She had apparently travelled to Mekelle before the conflict, to conduct research for…
Ethiopian Police & INTERPOL in Partnership To Apprehend TPLF
Addis Ababa, December 21, 2020 – The Federal Police Commission said it would work in partnership with the INTERPOL to accomplices of the criminal TPLF junta for whom warrants were issued and reside abroad. Federal Police Crime Prevention Sector Head, Deputy Commissioner General Melaku Fanta told the media in Mekelle that it had issued arrest…
Ethiopia: IGAD Concludes Extra-Ordinary Summit
Addis Ababa, December 21, 2020 -The 38th Extraordinary Assembly of IGAD Heads of State and Government concluded yesterday after deliberating on regional issues. During the meeting held in Djibouti, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed briefed participants about the now-concluded law enforcement operation in the Tigray regional state. In a statement issued after the end of meeting,…
