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Qegnet on Mereja TV – 11 July 2019

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Sidama political parties issue warning

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Addis Ababa Baladera Council press conference disrupted by unknown individuals

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV – 9 July 2019

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV – 8 July 2019

July 12, 2019July 12, 2019Melat Mulugeta
A sorghum field on the shore of Lake Hayq, Ethiopia, November 2012

June droughts could cut sorghum harvests in Ethiopia’s highlands by up to 40 percent in strong El Niño years, study finds

July 11, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
The rock-hewn church of Bilbila Giyorgis in the Lalibela area, November 2018

Near Lalibela, honey from bees living in church walls is used in an old healing rite called Mar

July 11, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
U.S. soldiers practise loading a litter onto an Ethiopian National Defense Force Mi-17 helicopter during Justified Accord 2019 at the Hurso Training Center near Dire Dawa, 25 July 2019

Ethiopia hosts Justified Accord 2019, a U.S.-led exercise for peacekeepers serving in Somalia

July 10, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay

In era of reform, Ethiopia still reverts to old tactics to censor press – CPJ

July 10, 2019July 10, 2019Mereja.com
An old Volkswagen Beetle among newer cars on a street in Addis Ababa, February 2020

Addis Ababa mechanics keep old Volkswagen Beetles running as the last Beetle rolls off the line in Mexico

July 10, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
A street in the old town of Mekelle, Tigray, January 2018

Tigray plans to sell shares in three EFFORT companies, including Mesebo Cement, to diaspora investors

July 10, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
Coffee brewed in a clay jebena during a coffee ceremony in Addis Ababa, July 2008

In Addis Ababa, YA Coffee serves specialty coffee brewed only in the traditional jebena

July 10, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
Women selling khat in Harar, eastern Ethiopia, April 2014

At Awaday, the world’s biggest khat market, millions change hands overnight as farmers turn from coffee to the leaf

July 10, 2019October 11, 2026Hana Belay
A street in Jijiga, capital of Ethiopia’s Somali Region, September 2009

Jail Ogaden stands empty, with diaries, logs and bones still scattered in its yard

July 10, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
The gate of Addis Ababa University, November 2012

Ethiopian universities spend under 2 percent of their budgets on research. A scholar argues for rewards, not mandates

July 9, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

Abiy Ahmed presses Kenya and Somalia to settle their sea border dispute out of court

July 9, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
Newspaper readers in Addis Ababa, October 2004

Journalists face terrorism charges as Ethiopia’s defence ministry vows to sue media after the 22 June killings

July 9, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay

Ermias Legesse talks about the status of Addis Ababa

July 9, 2019July 9, 2019Melat Mulugeta
Satellite television dishes on a rooftop, June 2011

Ethiopian TV channels agree to move to SES’s NSS-12 satellite to create a dedicated Ethiopian bouquet

July 9, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
Alula Street in Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, January 2018

In Mekelle, a reggae ballad for Tigrayan unity captures growing anger at Abiy Ahmed’s government

July 9, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
The front of a 1998 Ethiopian one-birr banknote

Ethiopia’s parliament approves a 386.95 billion birr budget for 2019/20

July 8, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay

The campaign to derail PM Abiy’s reform movement – Qegnet on Mereja TV

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Spirituality and national affairs – Discussion with Ato Hailu Yohannes

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Amhara Police Commission statement on arrested suspects

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Opposition politician Yilkal Getnet accuses the ruling party of working to dismantle Ethiopia

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta
The Omo River at the Gibe III dam in Wolayita, May 2016

Ethiopia lifts power rationing as water rises behind the Gibe III dam

July 8, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay

Ethiopian prisons are filling up once again; latest victim: Elias Gebru

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Mereja.com

Brig. General Asaminew Tsige’s wife arrested

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta
The Dubai skyline at night, April 2016

Abiy Ahmed says Ethiopia will send 50,000 workers to the UAE within a year to ease unemployment

July 8, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV – 5 July 2019

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Prof. Merera Gudina on PM Abiy Ahmed’s Parliament report

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Activist Jawar Mohammed talks about the separation of Tigray Region

July 8, 2019July 8, 2019Melat Mulugeta
Elementary school pupils at a school in Ethiopia’s Semien Mountains, March 2016

Addis Ababa starts feeding its schoolchildren as drought pushes up food prices in the capital

July 8, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
A treatment unit for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in Ethiopia, December 2011

Nearly a third of TB patients at an Addis Ababa hospital show signs of depression, study finds

July 7, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in Eritrea on 3 March 2019

A year after Abiy Ahmed’s Asmara visit, the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace has lost its glow

July 7, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay
The Amist Kilo church in Addis Ababa, mother church of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, November 2015

Officials in Robe order a Mekane Yesus congregation out of the building it used for ten years

July 7, 2019October 7, 2026Hana Belay

Dr. Aregawi Berhe talks about the challenges his party facing in Tigray

July 6, 2019July 6, 2019Melat Mulugeta
The Ethiopian Embassy on Baggot Street Lower in Dublin, Ireland, August 2019

Ireland spent about 5 billion birr on aid in Ethiopia over six years, its largest development partnership

July 6, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
Hookah, or shisha, pipes on display, May 2007

Ethiopia’s drug regulator shuts 42 bars for allowing smoking and serving shisha

July 6, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
A transit camp near the Tunisian border for migrants who fled Libya, March 2011

Ethiopian migrants feared among the dead after an airstrike on Libya’s Tajoura detention center

July 6, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
An Ethiopian farmer and his son plow their land with an ox, October 2017

Kebour Ghenna makes the case for letting Ethiopians own land, with the state keeping a check

July 6, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
An Ethio Telecom office, February 2016

Ethiopia will license two foreign mobile operators and sell 49 percent of Ethio Telecom

July 5, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) – 3 July 2019

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta

A special discussion on the reform movement in Ethiopia – Addis Dimts on Mereja TV

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Wektawi Gudayoch on Mereja TV – 2 July 2019

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Interview with Fikre Zewdie, Executive Director of Ethiopian Diaspora Trust Fund

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Col. Demeke Zewdu denounces the late Gen. Asaminew Tsige’s action

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta

Jawar Mohammed’s unexpected comment about General Asaminew Tsige

July 5, 2019July 5, 2019Melat Mulugeta
Terraced mountains on the road from Adwa to Yeha in the Tigray region, October 2007

Chinese miner Tibet Huayu agrees to finance Tigray’s Adyabo gold and base metals project

July 5, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
Protesters gather in front of the military headquarters in Khartoum on 7 April 2019, the second day of the sit-in

Sudan’s military council and protest leaders agree on a power-sharing deal brokered by the African Union and Ethiopia

July 5, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
Aerial view of Lake Hawassa with the city of Hawassa on its eastern shore, January 2017

Sidama leaders vow to declare their own region on 18 July as analysts warn Ethiopia has no safe option

July 4, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
A street in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara region, September 2016

Critics question the official coup account of the 22 June killings and press for an independent inquiry

July 4, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
Factory buildings of the Ayka textile plant in Alem Gena, outside Addis Ababa, October 2012

Ethiopia’s new labour law gives mothers 120 days of maternity leave and lengthens probation to 60 days

July 4, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
A woman works on the construction of the cardiac center at St. Paul’s Hospital in Addis Ababa, November 2017

Ethiopian medical student Yidnekachew Girma Mogessie wins an international award for a youth sexual health project

July 4, 2019October 6, 2026Hana Belay
A young man in drought conditions in Ethiopia on 29 July 2008

Herders in Ale fence off rangeland as drought stretches Ethiopia’s dry seasons

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay
Protesters near the Zevulun police station in Kiryat Haim after the killing of Solomon Tekah, 2 July 2019

Killing of Ethiopian-Israeli teenager Solomon Tekah sets off nationwide protests in Israel

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 ET-AVJ, the aircraft later lost as Flight 302, taking off from Tel Aviv on 8 February 2019

Boeing pledges $100 million for families and communities hit by the two 737 MAX crashes

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay
Daniel Bekele, chief commissioner of the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, on 18 February 2021

Parliament names former Human Rights Watch Africa director Daniel Bekele to lead Ethiopia’s rights commission

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay
A street in Dire Dawa on 26 February 2016

Investors from China’s Kunshan plan a $500 million textile park in Dire Dawa

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay
Rough opal from Ethiopia's Wollo area, photographed on 31 August 2014

Ethiopian Geological Survey maps 18 areas rich in gold, gemstones and industrial minerals

July 3, 2019October 5, 2026Hana Belay

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