The reason why OLF went to Eritrea was because it has nowhere to go Ato Ababiya Abajobir had served as head of Oromo Liberation Front (OLF). During the transitional government (1991-95), he was assigned as Ethiopia's ambassador to Egypt....
Tanzania plans to ban the production, importation, sale and use of all single-use plastic bags by July, to help tackle pollution from non-biodegradable waste.
The East African nation is the latest country to make a formal commitment to phase out...
It is one week since Kenya Bureau of Standards directed the removal of 10 brands of cooking oil and cooking fats from the shelves over standards, but the said brands remain in supermarkets in Uganda.
A mini-survey of Kampala shows...
Leila Kaddour-Boudadi, Translated by Chigba Njokanma
The Abba Garima manuscripts, kept in an Ethiopian monastery and until now considered to be from the 11th century, have made a journey back in time. Carbon-14 dating has revealed them to be from...
Most East African countries are on a path to adopting digital IDs. While others express mixed reactions about the readiness for the documents, others have yet to start conversations about biometric identification.
KYC processes are crucial in preventing fraud, money...
Charles Sutton — usually known as Charlie — came to Ethiopia with the Peace Corps in 1966. He was a musician, and even before he arrived, Charlie had discovered Ethiopian music through his Amharic language instructors. He describes the...
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The international non-governmental organization has urged the Ethiopian government to let in international investigators to identify how many people were killed during the country’s Irreecha festival on October 2.
People were killed in Bishoftu town 40 kilometers Southeast of Addis...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — It was a fairly typical Thursday in Mogadishu and by mid-morning, the fighting had already reached a fever pitch. From the roof of a broken city building artillery flashes tore the clear blue sky, clouds of...
Basing on the steady increase of tourist arrivals to Uganda in the past years, Uganda expects to receive over 250,000 travelers in 2018. According to Uganda’s present tourism statistics, there has been a great increase in the number of...
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