[Ethiopian Herald] The Federal Urban and Job Creation and Food Security Agency said that some 870,000 jobs have been created during the first half of the current budget year through coordinated and consolidated efforts of all stakeholders in the sect...

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA - Addis Ababa Culture, Art and Tourism Bureau said that it has partnered with Tourism Ethiopia to launch Addis Ababa's first-ever tourism brand in the coming three months in a view to enhancing the promotion of tourism ...

[African Arguments] Calls for the withdrawal of Eritrean troops, unimpeded humanitarian access, and investigations into war crimes are growing.

[Crisis Group] War has devastated Ethiopia's northernmost region. Pending comprehensive national dialogue, Addis Ababa should ease Tigray's immediate predicament, engaging elements of the authorities it unseated to govern the area and ensure that aid...

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- The Government of Ethiopia said that nothing would stop the 2nd filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD's) reservoir in the coming July 2021 .

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia is about to close two refugee camps namely Hitsats and Shimelba in northern Tigray State due to safety concerns as well as poor conditions of the centers, according to Administration for Refugee and Returnee...

[IPS] United Nations -- The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) has called for unimpeded access to all parts of Ethiopia's Tigray Region, to locate an estimated 20,000 unaccounted for refugees and assess damage to its Hitsaats Camp which was looted and s...

[HRW] Ethiopian federal forces carried out apparently indiscriminate shelling of urban areas in the Tigray region in November 2020 in violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. Artillery attacks at the start of the armed conflict st...

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC/Commission) stated that the slow progress of efforts to restore the infrastructure and to fully resume social and administrative services in Tigray Region is exposing residen...

[Ethiopian Herald] Addis Ababa -- The government has planned to launch a second round humanitarian assistance program to Tigray state beginning next week.

[East African] Albert Viñas, the emergency co-ordinator for Médecins sans Frontier, was in Tigray in 2020 to provide emergency services for six weeks. He spoke to Luke Anami

[IFJ] Lucy Kassa has worked for various international media including Los Angeles Times, Al Jazeera and the Norwegian magazine «Bistandsaktuelt» for several years.

[UNFPA] Gondar, Ethiopia -- "When you think about your future, you never plan to be uprooted from the comfort of your home and find fragile safety in a tent," said Hiwot*, 24, from Ethiopia's embattled Tigray Region.

[The Conversation Africa] Ethiopia's education sector has seen unprecedented challenges since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools and universities were closed for eight months following the confirmation of the first case on March 13, 2020. Th...

[DW] Human Rights Watch has accused Ethiopia's army of breaking international law by shelling civilian populations during their offensive against Tigray separatists. The watchdog called for a UN investigation.

[Crisis Group] With ongoing fighting in the Tigray region, Ethiopia's chronic instability is set to worsen unless the federal government adopts a conciliatory approach toward opponents. In this excerpt from our Watch List 2021, Crisis Group urges the...

[The Conversation Africa] It's been over three months since the start of the conflict between the Tigrayan regional government and the Ethiopian government, yet aid agencies are only now striking deals with the Ethiopian government to expand access f...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- The Government of Ethiopia has expressed its deep concern by the statement the European Union (EU) is issuing regarding the situation in Tigray.

[Addis Fortune] The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has further prohibited making over five cash transfers a week from a single bank account to multiple accounts via mobile and internet banking; Automated Teller Machine (ATM) and Point of Sale (PoS) ...

[Addis Fortune] By most predictions, the past fiscal year should have been a devastating one for the banking industry. The country's political situation was dire, and there was a liquidity shortage earlier in the year, the likes of which had not been...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Demeke Mekonnen has briefed today resident ambassadors and diplomats of African countries based in Addis Ababa about the current situation in Ethiopia.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen held a phone conversation on Tuesday with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Sweden, Ann Linde.

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Gudaf Tsegay broke the women's world record for the indoor 1500 metres on Tuesday after posting a time of three minutes, 53.09 seconds during a meeting in Lievin, France.

[European Commission] The EU remains very concerned by the tragic humanitarian crisis unfolding in Tigray and its regional implications. Three months into the conflict, despite small openings, the limitations to humanitarian access to Tigray continue...

[Addis Fortune] The feeling of helplessness; the confusion to understand what is unfolding; and the dilemma to act was evident in Paul Kagame's face, once a stalwart of African Union (AU) reform and Rwanda's president. He sees the increasing toll in ...

[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Demeke Mekonnen conferred over the phone on Monday with the Foreign Minister of Russia, Sergey Lavrov.

[Addis Fortune] A nine-fold difference in the average cost of a kilometre between road projects awarded to local firms by the Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) earlier last week raised some eyebrows.

[ICRC] In 2020, the ICRC's humanitarian activities mainly focused on responding to two major crises caused by the COVID-19 outbreak and fighting in Northern Ethiopia.

[ICRC] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is appealing to donors for 20 million Swiss francs to urgently expand its response to the acute humanitarian needs created by the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia, while the International Federation...

[UN News] UN agencies have received approval from the Ethiopian Government for 25 international staff to provide humanitarian assistance inside the country's conflict-torn Tigray region, the UN Spokesperson said on Monday.