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Ethiopia, Uganda Agree to Make Efforts to Ensure Fair, Equitable Utilization of Transboundary Water Resources
Addis Ababa, August 14, 2025 (ENA) – Ethiopia’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hadera Abera, today held discussions with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in charge of Regional Cooperation of the Republic of Uganda, Mulimba...

Sri Lanka’s Embassy in Ethiopia Highlights Global Insights from UNFSS+4 Summit
The Sri Lanka Embassy in Ethiopia, which also serves as the Permanent Observer Mission to the African Union and the UN Economic Commission for Africa, participated in the Second United Nations Food Systems Summit Stocktaking Moment (UNFSS+4) held...
Exclusive: Heir to Ethiopian Throne Talks Geopolitics and Judeo-Christian Values With
In the 4th century A.D., Ethiopia became the world’s second Christian nation, preceded only by Armenia. Though its historicity is questionable, the 14th-century Kebra Nagast tied Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie’s family to the Old Testament’s Queen...

Ethiopian Airlines Books New PR Agency For Singapore And ANZ
SINGAPORE — African carrier Ethiopian Airlines has picked Ellerton & Co. as its agency of record for Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand. This partnership marks a new chapter in Ethiopian Airlines’ mission to connect cultures and continents, not...

Ethiopian airlines, AfDB partner to build Africa’s new air cargo hub
Ethiopian Airlines and the African Development Bank have signed a $10 billion financing partnership to build the new Bishoftu International Airport, which will handle up to 3.73 million tonnes of cargo annually alongside massive passenger...

2.65 million-year-old fossil teeth unearthed in Ethiopia opens up current understandings of human evolution
Scientists in Ethiopia unearthed pieces of 2.65 million-year-old fossilized teeth belonging to two members of a newly discovered Homo species that could challenge previously accepted understandings of human evolution. The team of scientists found...

Are Eritrea and Ethiopia already at war?
The Horn of Africa is once again on the edge, as is often the case whenever tensions between Eritrea and Ethiopia rise. In such a context, it is important to assess how Eritrea’s threat-sensitive posture, Ethiopia’s ambitions for sea access,...

Ethiopia opens for trade

Protecting The Future: Annual Review Meeting Of Ethiopia's The Ethio-Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness And Response (EPPR) Project
(MENAFN- APO Group) The Ethio-Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (EPPR) Project held its first Annual Review Meeting from 9 to 11 July 2025 in Bishoftu, Ethiopia. The review brought together high-level government officials, technical...

Ethiopia Participates At Africa Water Investment Summit in South Africa
Addis Ababa, August 14, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopia’s Minister of Water and Energy, Habtamu Ittefa, is participating in the Africa Water Investment Summit in Cape Town, South Africa. The summit, organized by the African Union and hosted by the...

Ethiopian, AfDB partnership takes off
Ethiopia’s ambition to build a new international airport that will rival some of the world’s biggest, took off on Monday with a monumental signing ceremony marking the African Development Bank’s role (www.AfDB.org) as the initial mandated lead...

Ethiopian Airlines names Osprey Flight Solutions as risk intelligence provider
Ethiopian Airlines has named Osprey Flight Solutions as its official risk intelligence provider under a three-year agreement. Ethiopian Airlines will utilise Osprey’s advanced Intelligence and Analysis Platform to strengthen safety, security, and...

Ethiopia Launches Groundbreaking UN Initiative To Prevent Child Wasting
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) Download logo The Federal Ministry of Health, in partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and World Food Programme (WFP), officially launched the Joint UN...

Roundup: Ethiopian experts hail China's ecological conservation, urge deeper cooperation
by Xinhua writers Habtamu Worku, Liu Fangqiang ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian experts have lauded China's extraordinary achievement in transforming from ecological fragility to environmental leadership, calling it a practical model for...

Ethiopian fossils offer glimpse into complex human evolution
Scientists hold fossilized hominin teeth discovered in the Ledi-Geraru paleoanthropological research area in the Afar Region of northeastern Ethiopia, in this undated handout picture released on August 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: Amy Rector,...

The African Development Bank Ethiopian Airlines Partner on $500m Addis Airport Project
The African Development Bank (AfDB) has partnered with Ethiopian Airlines to contribute $500 million towards building a new airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The project, expected to be Africa’s largest when completed in 2029, marks a significant...
Ethiopian Airlines AfDB Deal Powers $10 Billion Bishoftu Airport
Project Overview Key Objectives and Vision Key objectives and vision for this project center on transforming Ethiopia into a major aviation hub not just for Africa, but for the world. The ambition is to support Ethiopia’s growing aviation sector,...

Ethiopia’s new mega hub a step closer to reality
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is to play a leading role in efforts to find up to $10 billion in funds to finance the construction of a potentially new game changing airport for Ethiopia. Under an agreement signed between AfDB and the...

Ethiopian fossils reveal new species in human evolutionary lineage
Researchers have unearthed tooth fossils in Ethiopia dating to about 2.65 million years ago of a previously unknown species in the human evolutionary lineage, one that lived in the same time and place as the earliest-known member of the genus Homo...

Ethiopia’s Tigray Must Rebuild Before It Considers Breaking Away
True sovereignty demands reform, not resentment—and patience, not panic The recent exchange between Abrar Fitwi and Mulugeta Gebregziabher—initiated by Abrar’s piece and followed by Mulugeta’s rebuttal—has resonated with many of us who hold...