Ethiopian gov’t gets opposition support on State of Emergency
Berhanu Nega, one Ethiopian opposition leaders, say prevention work against COVID 19 should be a priority, supports measures taken on the part of government Parliamentary Board established to follow up...
View ArticleEthiopia confirms eight more COVID 19 cases, total 82
Lia Tadesse, Minister for Health. Photo credit : ENAborkenaApril 14, 2020Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health confirmed on Tuesday that eight more persons have tested positive for Coronavirus disease. A total...
View ArticleMan beaten to death in Worabe while trying to preach social distancing
Police confirm that a man who was trying to preach social distancing in Worabe town, Silte zone, in South Ethiopia is beaten to death.Worabe town. Photo credit : Muhajer HualisborkenaApril 14, 2020An...
View ArticleGetachew Reda unwell, says Andafta media
borkenaApril 15, 2020Getachew Reda was one of the most powerful man in the post-Meles TPLF led Ethiopia. Circumstances changed in April 2018 as an alleged “reformist” group within the ruling coalition...
View ArticleUpdate: Ethiopia’s total number of confirmed COVID 19 cases reaches 85
borkenaApril 15, 2020Four hundred and thirty-one individuals were tested for COVID virus over the past twenty-four hours, and only three are confirmed to have contracted the virus, the Ministry of...
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines finds new way to cope with COVID 19 economic impacts
Ethiopian Airlines has won a 10 million dollars contract for cargo service to deliver supplies useful to prevent COVID 19 Photo credit : FBCborkenaApril 19, 2020The aviation industry is experiencing...
View ArticleSaudi Arabia holds off repatriating Ethiopian migrants
Saudi Arabia is doing so to honor a formal request form the government of Ethiopia to suspend repatriation temporarilyPhoto file / Ethiopian migrants at Port of Obock, Djibouti – T.Craig Murphy Credit...
View ArticleEthiopia’s Coronavirus patients number now 92
borkenaApril 16, 2020Ethiopia’s confirmed Coronavirus case grew by seven on Thursday after 401 people were tested for the disease over the past twenty-four hours, the Ministry of Health reported. One...
View ArticleEritrean gov’t behind the closure of refugee camp in Tigray,Ethiopia, say...
Photo credit : DW Amharic serviceborkenaApril 17, 2020Last week, the Ethiopian government announced that it is closing the Eritrean refugee camp in Tigray, Hitsats, which was operational for more than...
View ArticleEthiopia restricts driving private cars,schedule for driving introduced
Abdissa Yadeta, Director in the Ministry of Transport. Photo : ENAborkenaApril 17, 2020Over the past four weeks or so, Ethiopia took several measures as part of precaution against human to human...
View Article7 Choir members of Ethiopian Church reportedly found dead in Nazret area
Google map of Adama (Nazret area)borkenaApril 20, 2020Seven-members of Ethiopian church Choir reportedly found dead on the eve of Ethiopian Easter. The bodies were found at St Yohannes Church in...
View ArticleA toddler miraculously survives as landslide in Gamo claim lives of five...
borkenaApril 20, 2020Landslide in the Gamo zone of SNNPR has claimed the eight lives, DW Amharic reported on Monday. The tragic incident happened on Saturday night, the eve of Ethiopian Easter, around...
View ArticleEthiopia seized 21 million birr worth of contraband items
Photo credit : FBCborkenaApril 21, 2020Ethiopia says it has seized 21 million birr worth of contraband goods in a span of one week. The Ministry of Revenue said on Tuesday, as reported by...
View ArticleIllegal entry from Djibouti poses a threat on Ethiopia’s COVID 19 prevention
Illegal entry from Djibouti reportedly complicating Ethiopia’s COVID 19 prevention strategy in the eastern parts of the country borkenaApril 21, 2020As Djibouti’s confirmed case of COVID 19 surpasses...
View Article285 investors lose agri-business investment license
In 2017, a US based Ethiopian News outlet reported most of those who appropriated land for agri-business in Gambella region were TPLF affiliated mean for whom a loan was arranged from Development Bank...
View ArticleA mother lost battle to COVID 19 before she sees her new baby
Wogene Debele, a mother of three before she contracted COVID 19, was expecting her fourth baby, and almost due. She did not live to see her last baby. Ethiopian Community in Maryland and beyond is...
View ArticleFour policemen killed in Mekdela, South Wollo
Google Map of MekdelaborkenaApril 22, 2020 A fight between two individuals has reportedly left seven people dead in the Mekdela district of South Wollo, in north central Ethiopia. Four of the victims...
View ArticleFano leader reportedly gave in through mediation
Mesafint Tesfu reportedly agreed to end his armed Fano movement. Government committed to provide security protectionFano leader, Mesafint Tesfu, speaking in an event organized in Gondar over a year...
View ArticleRamadan Message from Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
In his Ramadan Message, Abiy Ahmed encouraged Ethiopian Muslims to practice social distancing and other COVID 19 prevention measures PM Abiy Ahmed conveying his Radaman Message on April 23, 2020 ....
View ArticleEthiopia’s dam is a matter of survival,not development: experts
Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam is being portrayed as a prestige project in some Egyptian media outlets. Ethiopian experts say the dame is a matter of survival issue for Ethiopians. Grand Ethiopian...
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