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[1] [2] It was the fifth presidential election of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to elect its fourth president. [3] Diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde was elected without contest to a six-year term, becoming Ethiopia's first non-royal female head of state [4] [5] and the first female head of state since the death of Empress Zewditu in 1930. [1]
9 July – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their twenty-year conflict. [7] [8] 14 July – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed made landmark visit to Eritrea and welcomed by Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki. [9] 26 July – Simegnew Bekele, a project manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, died in his car parked in Meskel ...
Addis Standard is an Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine published [1] [2] and distributed by Jakenn Publishing Plc, and was established in February 2011 by Tsedale Lemma, [3] who is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine as of January 2021.
In July 2018, Oromo militias killed 50 Somalis. [24] In September 2018, 58 people were killed in ethnic clashes. Following the clashes on the weekend of 15–16 September protests against ethnic clashes begun in Addis Ababa. [8] In December 2018, 21 Oromo people were killed and 61 were wounded in by Somali militias, heavy artillery was used.
In March 2018, EBC's logo was transferred to ETV and made a new transmission of frequency and sister's channel contents, and it is now broadcasting on Ethiosat and Nilesat. During the 2022 FIFA World Cup , FIFA accused EBC of pirating a large number of matches and threatened to permanently withdraw its broadcasting rights.
The Abiy cabinet of October 2018 was gender-balanced, with half the ministers being women, including several in senior security ministries, with Aisha Mohammed Mussa as Minister of Defense and Muferiat Kamil in the newly created Ministry of Peace, which was allocated responsibility for several security services.
The Burayu massacre (Oromo: Ajjeechaa Burraayyuu, Amharic: የቡራዩ ጭፍጨፋ) was a series of communal clashes which occurred in the vicinity of the Ethiopian town of Burayu, in the Oromia Region, on 14–16 September 2018. Individuals from the Oromo and Dorze ethnicities fought in and around Burayu, a town in Oromia Region which is ...