The Government of Tanzania has launched the construction of a new capital city, with a price tag of $5 billion. The city, named Magufuli, would be a new administrative capital for the East African country, located 17 kilometers from the current capital, Dodoma. It would house mainly government buildings and services, and cover over 617 hectares of land. Named…
The leadership of Ethiopian Airlines has opened up on the controversy over the Nigerian Air initiative of the past administration of Former President Muhammadu Buhari. POLITICS NIGERIA recalls that the former Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, had floated the airline on May 27. However, it was later discovered that an aircraft belonging to Ethiopian Airlines was used to…
Saudi border guards have fired “explosive weapons” on Ethiopian migrants trying to cross through Yemen into the Gulf kingdom, killing hundreds since last year, Human Rights Watch said today. The allegations, which Riyadh did not immediately comment on, point to a significant escalation of abuses along the perilous ‘Eastern Route’ from the Horn of Africa to Saudi Arabia, where…
Ethiopian Airlines held a grand opening of the largest hotel on the African continent as it inaugurated the second phase of Ethiopian Skylight Hotel. With the new extension, the hotel now has a total of 1,024 modern rooms and suites with different room types including fully equipped apartments suitable for long and short staying guests. The hotel also incorporates…
The international team found that the long rains season was turning drier and the short rains season was becoming wetter due to climate change. By Associated Press The ongoing drought in Eastern Africa has been made worse by human-induced climate change, which also made it much likelier to occur in the first place, an international team of climate scientists…
Summary ____ Egypt says Ethiopia is deliberately delaying talks on Nile dispute so as to “buy time” in order to continue filling its giant dam being built on River Nile. “It is regrettable that Ethiopian officials continue to express their unwillingness to resume negotiations under the auspices of the African Union (AU) in a new attempt to buy time…
Staff Writer, Agence France-Presse (AFP) Four months since the federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a peace deal, medicine and food supplies were still insufficient Rebuilding schools and hospitals is the “number one priority” in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region after two years of brutal conflict, Janti Soeripto, head of the US-based charity Save the Children…
The Egyptian Ministry of Transport is seeking to complete the “Cairo-Cape Town” road shortly, with the road scheduled to be inaugurated in 2024. The Ministry of Transport has made great strides in carrying out all works up to Arqin in Sudan with high quality, RT reported. The Cairo-Cape Town road is scheduled to pass through nine African countries at…
Dar Es Salaam — Peace talks between warring sides on Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict have been extended into Monday. An official familiar with the arrangements for the talks confirms that discussions continue in South Africa between Ethiopia’s federal government and representatives from the northern Tigray region. The African Union-led talks seek a cessation of hostilities in a war that the United…
The African Union (AU)-led peace talks to end the bloody fighting between the Ethiopian government and separatist Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is scheduled for Monday, 24 October in South Africa, the Ethiopian government announced on Thursday
Summary Magnitude of problem, slow progress makes it impossible for Ethiopia to meet deadline, say experts Ethiopia faces an uphill task to meet the UN deadline to abolish child labor by 2025, as millions of children still work in various sectors in the rugged, landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa. On the eve of World Day Against…