Ethiopia to host World Economic Forum 2020
Abiy Ahmed holding talk with Professor Klaus SchwabPhoto Credit : Office of the Prime Minister borkena January 23,2019 Ethiopia will be hosting World Economic Forum in 2020. If it happens, this will be...
View Article368 Ethiopians released from Saudi prisons return home
Photo credit : Fana borkena January 25,2019 368 Ethiopians who were released from Saudi Arabian prison returned home today, reported state affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporation. Up on arrival in...
View ArticleEthiopia deporting Syrian refugees as street begging activity becomes suspicious
Photo credit : Fana borkena January 25,2019 Ethiopia is returning about 395 Syrian refugees to where they came from. This past week Ethiopia received 560 Syrians who came to Ethiopia with visitor and...
View ArticleBereket Simon, Tadesse Kassa appeared in a Bahir Dar court
Bereket Simon borkena January 25,2019 Incarcerated Bereket Simon, whom political pundits in the country are likening him to the Nazi’s Joseph Goebbels, appeared in a count in Bahir Dar today, seat of...
View ArticleGerman President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Ethiopia
Photo source : ENA Photo :President Sahle-Work Zewde of Ethiopia and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier borkena January 28,2019 German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Ethiopia...
View ArticleEthiopia loses 1 billion birr per annum from construction industry sector
Photo credit : National Cements borkena January 28,2019 Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction says Ethiopia loses about 1 billion birr per year from the construction industry sector due to...
View ArticleEthiopian Air Force says it killed 35 Al-Shabab militants in Somalia
Google Map borkena January 29,2019 Ethiopian Air Force says it killed 35 al-shabab militants this past week, according to a report by state media – Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC) today....
View ArticleDire Dawa Police arrested 308 suspects in connection with violence
Dire Dawa city administration facing disenchantment from residents as demand for the release of youth groups mounting. A strike is planed for tomorrow but the Command Post in the city warns that it...
View Article168 Ethiopian migrants returned from Yemen
borkena January 29,2019 168 Ethiopian migrants who have been living in Yemen, currently war torn,returned home, disclosed the ministry of foreign Affairs of Ethiopia. The have been living in the...
View ArticleUnidentified gunmen killed four civilians in Soyama Burji
Google map Burji Soyama region borkena January 30,2019 Four civilians are killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on a truck in Soyama Burji district of Konso zone in Southern Ethiopia, reported...
View Article28 dead as boat capsizes off the coast of Djibouti
Source : Fana borkena January 30,2019 28 people are reportedly dead after a boat capsized off the coast of Djibouti,Ethiopian state media reported citing International Organization for Migration (IOM)....
View ArticleEthiopia’s international and domestic debt soars to 1.4 trillion birr
Within the next three years alone, Ethiopia is expected to pay over $7 billion towards its debt. The leaders are renegotiating debt in the west and in the east. Graphics source : Pakistan Today borkena...
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines offers transit passengers free Addis Ababa city tour
Ethiopian Airlines offers free city tour to major tourist attractions in the capital Addis Ababa to its passengers transiting through Bole International Airport which means that now passengers do not...
View ArticleEthiopia to deploy over 180,000 professionals for upcoming census
borkena February 1,2019 Ethiopia is poised to undertake its fourth national census starting first week of April 2019. The date will be announced on April 7 2019. It will be three weeks long and will...
View ArticleLet. Gen. Tigabu Yilma appointed AMISOM force commander in Somalia
Francisco Caetano Madeira and Gen. Tigabu Yilma (left)Photo : FBC borkena February 1,2019 The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) appointed Ethiopia’s Let. Gen. Tigabu Yilma as commander of...
View ArticlePM Abiy Ahmed calls for unity within the opposition quarter
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed presented on the political culture of Ethiopia ; he called for unity within the opposition quarter Photo credit : Office of the Prime Minister borkena February 2,2018 A day...
View ArticleMoFAE confirms 57 Ethiopians died in boat accident in Djibouti
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia(MoFAE) About 57 Ethiopians are confirmed to be dead due to boat accident in the north east of Djibouti. photo source : FBC February 4,2019 The accident...
View ArticleEthiopia named members of National Reconciliation Commission
Parliament approved appointment of 41 people to Truth and Reconciliation Commission. It draws members from politicians in the opposition quarter as well. Ethiopian Parliament borkena February 5,2019...
View ArticleTop TPLF executive member tendered resignation over Raya, Democracy
In what seems to be an indication of division over identity questions,among other things, Zagid Abraha is resigning from his position within TPLF party position. Zadig AbrahaPhoto credit : EBC borkena...
View ArticleNewly minted Intelligence officers told to kill any form of affiliations but...
Intelligence officers who graduated today from the country’s intelligence officers training institute encouraged to kill religious,party or ethnic affiliations. Photo credit : OPM borkena February...
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