Ethiopia

Ethiopia: Govt Plans to Privatise Key State Enterprises

Ethiopia's finance minister says the government is preparing to privatize some state-owned entities. However, the plan to sell off parts of the country's once-guarded crown jewels is getting a mixed reaction.At a corner of the Ethiopian ...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Attempted Coup leaves 4 Dead in Ethiopia

Ethiopia’s army chief of staff, General Seare Mekonnen and at least three other senior officials have been killed during a coup attempt by an army general in the northern state of Amhara, state television said on Sunday.Amhara’s state pr...

Neo Sithole·almost 5 years ago

Sudan: Military Council Rejects Ethiopian Transition Initiative, Calls For AU And Ethiopia To Unity Efforts

 Sudan's ruling military council has appealed to the African Union and Ethiopia to unify their efforts in outlining a blueprint for a political transition in the crisis-hit country. On Sunday, Shams al-Din Kabashi, spokesman for TMC, sai...

Neo Sithole·almost 5 years ago

Internet Blackouts In Africa On The Rise

Internet connectivity has been cut in most parts of Mauritania, online rights group, NetBlocks; reported on Tuesday. The group said the outage was linked to post-election incidents in the country.“Mauritania is in the midst of a near-tot...

Joburg Post·almost 5 years ago

Eritrea, Somalia and Turkey Respond to Ethiopia’s Failed Coup

Regional players were among the first to react to a tense weekend in Ethiopia where the federal government confirmed a failed coup in northern Amhara regional state.Eritrea and Somalia reacted via tweets with the former sending condolenc...

Neo Sithole·almost 5 years ago

Ethiopia Needs to Act Fast to Solve its Internal Displacement Problem

Ethiopia’s president Sahle-Work Zewde recently reaffirmed her government’s efforts to support refugees and internally displaced people in Ethiopian territory. She also called for the cooperation of continental and international actors.Et...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Sudan Military and Opposition Agree On Power-Sharing Deal

Sudan's ruling military council and civilian protest leaders have reached an agreement to share power for a transition period. The plan envisages a rotating presidency and civilian-military ruling council. Mediators said progress had bee...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

How Glow of the Historic Accord between Ethiopia and Eritrea Has Faded

Exactly a year ago Eritreans could hardly contain their joy as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed touched down in Asmara. The city had seen nothing like it in a generation that knew war rather than peace. Men and women lined the streets...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

How Digital Technologies Can Help Africa’s Smallholder Farmers

Digitisation could change the game for agriculture in Africa. That’s a key message in a report recently released by an international institution that enhances smallholder farming in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries. The Centre f...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Ethiopian Rappers Challenging Israel Police Through Song

In his song “Handcuffed,” rapper Teddy Neguse addresses police brutality against young Israeli men of Ethiopian descent. Although the song came out in 2017, it has recently reached new heights in the wake of street protests across the c...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Ethiopia Stalls Referendum for New Region

Members of the Sidama ethnic group must now wait several months longer for a referendum that could lead to the setting up of a new independent region. Many, especially young Sidama, are unhappy with the delay. Leaders of the Sidama ethni...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Ethiopia deploys military to Southern Region

Ethiopia’s government said on Monday it would deploy soldiers and federal police to take over security in a restive southern region following days of violence that has left at least 18 people dead. “The regular security structure has bee...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Violence in Ethiopia Over Regional Autonomy

At least 17 people have been killed in clashes between Ethiopian security forces and activists seeking a new autonomous region for their Sidama ethnic group, according to a local official and hospital authorities. A local district offici...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Ethiopia’s Sidama People: Lessons for Post-Colonial Africa

Undoubtably the rise in conversation around Africa’s ethnic violence is the result of an increase in reporting and not in actual violence. However, in most cases, the violence is over limited resources and in defence of historical and tr...

Neo Sithole·over 4 years ago

Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin: Ethiopian Playwright and Poet

“I like to go out and communicate with the common folk of Ethiopia; the peasant, the patriot, the soldier, the traitor, the housewife, the priest, the sheik… it is from the that I learn about my country and people.” Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin ...

Katlego Mereko·over 4 years ago

Why Sidama Statehood Demand Threatens to Unravel Ethiopia’s Federal System

Ethiopia’s ethnic federal arrangement was designed to empower ethnic groups with the right to self administration rights. But it’s facing a major test. The current challenge comes from the Sidama ethnic group from a region commonly known...

Yohannes Gedamu·over 4 years ago

Ethiopia: Why the Sidama Secession Demand Needs to Be Negotiated

Mounting tensions in southern Ethiopia are creating high levels of nervousness in the country. At the centre of the conflict is the clamour for internal secession by the Sidama, the country’s fifth largest ethic group. Most recently, the...

Yonatan Fessha·over 4 years ago

Ethiopia 2020 National Elections On Track

Ethiopia’s ruling coalition said on Friday it will hold a national election next year, defying worries over security and displacement in the Horn of Africa country that had led some to speculate the election might be postponed. The execu...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Addis Ababa’s Street Hustlers Helped Build the City – Now They’re Being Pushed Out

The population of Africa is booming, but as long as productivity and employment remain unsteady, “global experts” and economists contend, African cities could descend into conflict and disorder. From their perspective, activities like st...

Joburg Post·over 4 years ago

Between Peace and Uncertainty After Ethiopia-Eritrea Deal

Gebreselassie Woldeabzigi, a 72-year-old Ethiopian, fled his hometown in Badme, a border town of around 2,000 people in May 1998. It was the start of a two-year war between Ethiopia and Eritrea that killed an estimated 70,000 people fro...

Elias Gebreselassie·over 4 years ago

Coming together to change social norms and stand against female genital mutilation in Ethiopia

Childhood and adolescence can be a time fraught with peer pressure and insecurity, when many young people go to great lengths to fit in

UN Press·over 1 year ago

"The BRICS bloc will be more powerful" - David Monyae

Co-Director of the University of Johannesburg-based Centre for Africa-China Studies, David Monyae believes the BRICS bloc will move from a small elite group to a more powerful one.

Neo Poho·7 months ago