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Why Ethiopia is making a historic ‘master plan’ U-turn

(Mathias Muindi - BBC Monitoring) A controversial plan by the Ethiopian government to expand the capital, Addis Ababa, is set…

AfDB approves loan for Adama, Adwa, Bichena and Gode water projects

(AfDB) The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group (AfDB) on Wednesday, January 13, 2016 approved a loan…

EU press release on Tedros Adhanom and Federica Mogherini meeting

Brussels, 13/01/2016 Press release on the meeting between the High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of…

Ethiopia: Ruling party announced full rollback on Addis Ababa ‘master plan’ after deadly protests

The ruling party of Ethiopia's largest region, Oromia, announced full roll back on the proposed master plan of Addis Ababa…

Briefing: What next for the Burundi peace process?

(Samuel Okiror - IRIN) Talks aimed at a settlement to Burundi’s violent political divide are due to start in neighbouring…

Egypt Foreign Ministry statement on the Khartoum meeting on Renaissance Dam

The foreign ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt, and Sudan met in Khartoum last week and settled differences regarding the selection of…

Beware the drought, the MDG successes are at stake

Ethiopia is rising and poised to reach middle income status after a decade, according to World Bank. Ethiopia is experiencing…

Ethiopia denies agreeing not to fill Renaissance dam

An Ethiopian official dismissed media reports of the signing of a new agreement barring water filling of the Grand Ethiopian…

Ethiopia cancels Karuturi’s 100 thousand hc. farmland contract

Ethiopian government disclosed today the cancellation of Karuturi Global Ltd. land lease contract. The Indian company was granted three hundred…

Egyptian official: "filling the dam will be possible only after a consensus"

(Al Arabiya News) Foreign ministers of Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia signed a “Khartoum document,” aimed to resolve differences about the…

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