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25 December – The Ethiopian National Defense Force closes the country's border with Somalia following heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes.
Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party: Efoytā [1] Addis Ababa: 1997 Fānā démokrāsi Amharic Ethiopian Herald [1] Addis Ababa: 1943 Ethiopian Press Agency (government) English Ethiopian Gazette [3] Toronto: 2018 AMG Brands Network English ethiopiangazette.com: Feteh: 2008–2012 [4] closed; chief editor Temesgen Desalegn arrested [5]
Ethiopia, [c] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north , Djibouti to the northeast , Somalia to the east , Kenya to the south , South Sudan to the west , and Sudan to the northwest .
Television in Ethiopia was introduced in 1962 with the government owned ETV. Color television started in 1979 on an experiment basis with regular transmissions starting in 1984 to commemorate the founding of Workers' Party of Ethiopia (WPE). [ 1 ]
The 2019 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the prime minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed (born 1976) "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, and in particular for his decisive initiative to resolve the border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea." [1] The award was announced by the Norwegian Nobel Committee on 11 October 2019.
The Ethiopian calendar used to reckon time in a seven to eight years difference with the Gregorian calendar – used in accordance with the Ethiopian calendar. The events widely conceived as the renovation of Ethiopia's ethnic components, and there was multi-direction guerrilla movement against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).
A 6-year-old first grader in New York City has been asking to visit the school nurse almost every day for the last month, hoping to be sent home.
Ethiopian Broadcasting Service (EBS TV) is an Ethiopian free to air television network. [1] Launched in 2008, the network is based in Ethiopia with correspondents both in United States at its headquarters in Silver Spring, Maryland, U.S. EBS TV broadcasts programs in mostly Amharic. [2] [3] EBS TV is the first private channel launched in Ethiopia.