Category: Ethiopia

  • Ethiopia: EU Cancels Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia

    Ethiopia: EU Cancels Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 4. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. By Wesley Dockery. EU High Representative Josep Borrell says Ethiopian authorities would not agree to key parameters regarding the bloc’s observation mission. The June elections come amid an ongoing crisis in the Tigray region. The EU on Monday canceled…

  • Ethiopia: The many faces of PM Abiy Ahmed: Opinion

    Ethiopia: The many faces of PM Abiy Ahmed: Opinion

    In the summer of 2018, only a few months after Abiy Ahmed had been swept into power, I began to have a gut feeling that something was not quite right with a leader widely considered as Africa’s brightest hope for the future. At the time, you had to be mad to doubt Abiy Ahmed. In…

  • Ethiopia: Why Egypt’s and Sudan’s “Fears” Over GERD Are Exaggerated!

    Ethiopia: Why Egypt’s and Sudan’s “Fears” Over GERD Are Exaggerated!

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION By Eyob Belachew. Ethiopia is working to correct a century of injustice in the Nile politics, which has overwhelmingly favored Egypt’s development over Ethiopia’s, by constructing Africa’s colossal dam since April 2011. Plans to fill the mega dam…

  • Violence in Ethiopia, Instability, and the Need for Law and Order

    Violence in Ethiopia, Instability, and the Need for Law and Order

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION by Graham Peebles. An unresolved war in the north of the country; ethnic based violence some are describing as genocide in the West; random explosions of aggression in various regions: Ethiopia is trembling. With around 117 million people,…

  • Sustaining Peace in Ethiopia

    Sustaining Peace in Ethiopia

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. BY BETHELHEM BEDLU. Peace and development are the two sides of the same coin. Without peace development is unthinkable and similarly, if there is no development, the issue of peace would be challenged and threatened hugely for a number…

  • Ethiopia: An Angry Prime Minister Who Makes a Fetish of an Election: OPINION

    Ethiopia: An Angry Prime Minister Who Makes a Fetish of an Election: OPINION

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. OPINION By Alex Bekele. Nothing is more irritating and disappointing to most Ethiopians than to listen to the recent angry diatribe of Prime Minister Abiy in response to the all too human pleading of the Amhara people for protection from sudden…

  • Ethiopia: Qatar’s Al Mondial Company to Invest in Ethiopia

    Ethiopia: Qatar’s Al Mondial Company to Invest in Ethiopia

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues.  Qatar’s leading biscuit manufacturer, Al Mondial Company, expressed interest to invest in Ethiopia. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that Ethiopian Embassy in Qatar hosted a webinar briefing on investment opportunities in Ethiopia between various government sectors and the…

  • Ethiopia Leading East Africa in Foreign Direct Investment

    Ethiopia Leading East Africa in Foreign Direct Investment

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) May 1. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. – Ethiopia has led East Africa in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and is Africa’s fifth-largest recipient of FDI, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and the EU institutions Hirut Zemene said. The above remark was made in her opening…

  • Ethiopia: Opposition Parties Ask UN to Ensure Eritrean Forces Leave Tigray

    Ethiopia: Opposition Parties Ask UN to Ensure Eritrean Forces Leave Tigray

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) April 30. 2021. Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Monitoring Regional Issues. Three opposition parties in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region have called for an internationally monitored immediate withdrawal of Eritrean forces from the northern Tigray region bordering Eritrea. In a joint letter they wrote to the UN Security Council, the Tigray…

  • Somalia AU Troops to remain neutral in Mogadishu crisis

    Somalia AU Troops to remain neutral in Mogadishu crisis

    ADDIS ABABA – Troops working under the framework of African Union Mission in Somalia (Amisom) have been asked to remain neutral in order to effectively facilitate the demilitarisation of Mogadishu and environs. Meeting of the Coordination Committee (MOCC) chaired by Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, AU Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security (C-PAPS) has warned Amisom…

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