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President Ruto Expected At Safaricom Ethiopia Launch

6Oct

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Politics

President Ruto Expected At Safaricom Ethiopia Launch

President William Ruto is expected to attend the National Launch of Safaricom Ethiopia Friendship Square in Addis Abeba. The Head of State has been invited to the event as a guest of honor, along with his counterpart, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed. Safaricom PLC CEO Peter Ndegwa, Safaricom Ethiopia CEO Anwar Soussa, and Safaricom Ethiopia chairman Michael Joseph will also be present. The event is scheduled to begin at 4:30 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m.

Kenya, Ethiopian to Collaborate in fighting Cross border Terrorism

16Feb

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Kenya, Ethiopian to Collaborate in fighting Cross border Terrorism

Kenya and Ethiopia have pledged to conduct cross border terror operations for stability. Both countries have reiterated strong security cooperation to fight cross-border terrorism thereby ensuring peace and stability in the area. Police chiefs for both countries met in Addis Ababa on Tuesday and agreed to cooperate in many other ways to deal with such cross border crimes. Kenya and Ethiopia share a common border and have suffered several attacks by the criminal gang. •Shene has been fighting the government from its stronghold in the Oromia region of western Ethiopia even though it entered the country to pursue peaceful political struggle in mid-2018. Inspector General of the National Police Service Hilary Mutyambai during a meeting with the Commisioner General of ...

Egypt denounces Ethiopia’s move to fill Nile dam

6Jul

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International news

Egypt denounces Ethiopia’s move to fill Nile dam

Egypt has denounced Ethiopia's decision to begin filling the reservoir behind its giant hydropower dam on the Blue Nile for a second year. The Egyptian irrigation minister, Mohamed Abdel Aty, said he'd received official notice of the filling from Ethiopia and had categorically rejected it. He said in a statement that the "unilateral" move was "a violation of international laws and norms that regulate projects built on the shared basins of international rivers, including the Nile River". The minister has also written to the United Nations Security Council informing it of the latest measure by Ethiopia, the statement adds. The council is due to meet to discuss the matter this Thursday. Egypt and Sudan had warned Ethiopia that it should wait until they'd all reached a legally...

Raila attends Lapsset ministerial meeting in Ethiopia

28Jun

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Raila attends Lapsset ministerial meeting in Ethiopia

African Union High Representative for Infrastructure Development, Raila Odinga is in Ethiopia for a ministerial meeting for the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia-Transport corridor. The ministerial meeting brings together stakeholders from relevant departments in the region to review the project’s progress. "The regional initiative is a game-changer on matters of infrastructure development," Raila tweeted on Monday. The meeting comes a few weeks after President Uhuru Kenyatta commissioned the first berth of the Lamu Port, which is part of the larger Lapsset project. The former Prime Minister has urged other regional countries to support the project. In August 2019, the Lapsset Corridor Development Authority said a strong case had been made to the AU on the project’s s...

Ethiopia declares state of emergency in Amhara.

19Apr

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International news

Ethiopia declares state of emergency in Amhara.

Ethiopia has declared a state of emergency in the southern part of Amhara regional state amid violence in various towns. In a statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Defense said the last three days saw deadly armed violence in the town of Ataye and several other areas in Oromia special zones. The statement said an unspecified number of people were killed in attacks by gunmen and property was destroyed. It added that many civilians fled the armed conflict. The Amhara region is dominated by the ethnic Amhara group – Ethiopia’s second-largest – but the Oromo special zone is populated mainly by Oromos, the numerically dominant group. The declaration of emergency came a day after Ethiopia’s military deployed troops to the North Shoa zone and Oromo special zone. The move u...