PM Abiy Ahmed on the misuse of history
Activist Daniel Berhane on separation
Young artists celebrate the birthday of Empress Tayitu and Emperor Menelik
TPLF senior official Getachew Reda on the reform movement
Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV
Ethiopia’s parliament passed a new electoral and political parties law in August 2019 over opposition objections
The Garima Gospels, kept at a monastery in Tigray, are believed to be the oldest surviving illuminated Christian manuscript
Erimias Amelga sends a message from prison
Journalists debate over the latest education reform
PBS NewsHour reported in 2019 on an Ethiopia trial testing whether a combined aid package could lift the ultra-poor
Scholar Wondwosen Tamrat weighed what Ethiopia’s 2019 refugee law could mean for refugees’ access to universities
Girls celebrated Ashenda in Tigray, Amhara and Addis Ababa in August 2019 as Ethiopia sought UNESCO recognition for the festival
Ethiopia said in 2019 it would replace its 8-2-2 school system with a 6-2-4 structure and scrap the grade 10 national exam
Oxford researchers projected a hotter, drier and more water-stressed future for Ethiopia’s Awash River basin
Desert locusts from Yemen reached eastern Ethiopia in August 2019, months before the country’s worst outbreak in 25 years
Ethiopia spent about $2.8 billion on fuel imports in the 2018/19 fiscal year, its state petroleum supplier said
Two siblings of Mengistu Hailemariam said in a 2019 TV interview that the former leader’s family lived as ordinary Ethiopians
CPJ urged Ethiopia in 2019 to free Ethiopis reporter Mesganaw Getachew, held under the anti-terror law after filming outside a court
Ethio Lease became the first foreign-owned financial firm licensed in Ethiopia in 2019 and entered voluntary liquidation in 2024
Prof. Fikre Tolossa on Emperor Menilik II’s birthday
Taye Bogale talks about Emperor Menelik II
Islamic State in Somalia said in 2019 it would release Amharic propaganda aimed at recruits in Ethiopia, VOA reported
An IRC officer at Haloweyn refugee camp described counseling women who survived violence in southern Ethiopia
Editors from state and private media met in Addis Ababa in August 2019 to found the Editors Guild of Ethiopia
Technion student Aya Na’amana, 21, was found dead in Ethiopia’s Danakil Depression after losing her hiking group, Ynet reported
Ethiopia planned to import 4 million quintals of wheat in 2019 as food inflation passed 20 percent
Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, Ethiopia’s poet laureate and leading playwright, was born on Aug. 17, 1936
Dublin-raised Mel Roddy opened Gursha, an Ethiopian supper club serving injera and doro wat, the Irish Independent reported
Ethiopian Airlines raised revenue 17 percent and carried 12.1 million passengers in 2018/19 despite the ET302 crash
Ethiopia restarted WTO accession talks in 2019 after a seven-year pause, and its bid remained unfinished in 2026
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia reported a 17.9 billion birr profit for 2018/19 as deposits passed 541 billion birr
Business Daily described Axum’s giant granite obelisks as one of Ethiopia’s main tourist draws in 2019
Ethiopia had nine UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 2019 and now has 12, from Lalibela to Melka Kunture
Former Feteh journalist Mastewal Birhanu described beatings and jail in Ethiopia and a new life in Regina, Canada
Human Rights Watch documented torture in Yemen and abusive Saudi detention of Ethiopian migrants on the Gulf route in 2019
World Bank-backed irrigation helped Arsi farmers multiply potato yields under Ethiopia’s Second Agricultural Growth Project
Dire Dawa recorded more than 40,000 suspected chikungunya cases in Ethiopia’s second documented outbreak
EPRDF executive committee meeting update
Global Movement for the Liberation of Tegaru formed
Atse Menelik’s letter to saint Marry – Addis Dimts on Mereja TV
The first Ethiopian-Israeli delegation joined iCog Labs’ SolveIT innovation competition in Addis Ababa in 2019
A new revealing book about the ruling EPRDF by Berhane Tsigabu
Election board’s controversial draft proclamation
DER SPIEGEL reported from the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam on resettlement, costs and Egypt’s objections in 2019
Journalist Misganaw Getachew appeared in court
Ermias Legesse on the relationship between TPLF and ADP
The ruling party EPRDF executive committee decides to keep next year’s general elections as schedule
Ethiopia worked on a mini-grid tariff formula in 2019 and adopted mini-grid rules in 2020
Ethiopia resumed sending trained domestic workers to Saudi Arabia in August 2019 after a ban of more than four years
Ethiopian traders told Ezega that importing pays better than producing at home
A British Council survey estimated 55,000 social enterprises in Ethiopia as Addis Ababa prepared to host a world forum
BBC Reality Check found Ethiopia’s claim of 350 million trees planted in a day possible but unverified
Gibe III dam ended the Omo River’s annual flood and upended life in southern Ethiopia, The Atlantic reported
CPJ urged Ethiopia to charge or free three Sidama Media Network workers held since July 2019
Ethiopia was forecast to add 18 million mobile subscribers by 2025, second only to Nigeria in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ethiopian-Israeli director Aalam-Warqe Davidian’s ‘Fig Tree’ looks at the life Beta Israel emigrants left behind
Ethio Lease becomes the first foreign-owned company licensed to provide financial services in Ethiopia
Ethiopian business owners in Las Vegas backed a ‘Little Ethiopia’ designation that Clark County approved in 2023
