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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 ...
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] The Reporter (Ethiopian Reporter) [6] Addis Ababa: 1995 [7] Media Communications Centre Amharic ...
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, the EPRDF nominated Abiy Ahmed to succeed Desalegn, and he was made Prime Minister by the Ethiopian parliament on 2 April. [47] The 42-year-old Abiy reformed the country's economy, released political opponents, allowed the return of exiles, relaxed press restrictions, and freed diverse political groups to organize.
Shortly afterwards, the assailant was taken away by security officials. The attack was the first attempted assassination of an Ethiopian national leader in modern Ethiopian history, after similar incidents during Haile Selassie and Derg era. The attack resulted in the deaths of two people and injured 44 other people, although Ahmed was unharmed ...
The bank said its investments in Ethiopia had helped slash child mortality in half and increase primary school enrollment by 13 percent in less than a decade. The Ethiopian government has said its resettlement campaign in Gambella relocated 37,883 families before it concluded in mid-2013.
The Ethiopian military has intervened to combat Anuak militias. [ 3 ] Anuak activists have claimed that ethnic Anuaks in Ethiopia have suffered from torture, indiscriminate killings, looting, and discrimination from various other minority militias operating in the country, as well as from the Ethiopian government itself.
The Democratic Republic of the Congo is in the grip of a civil war that has drawn in military forces from neighboring states, with Uganda and Rwanda supporting the rebel movements that occupy much of the eastern portion of the state – Tutsi, Hutu, Lendu, Hema and other conflicting ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region ...