New Business Ethiopia

As universities across Ethiopia close to avert spread of the COVID-19 virus, Amnesty International is calling on the Ethiopian authorities to disclose measures it has taken to rescue 17 Amhara students from Dembi Dolo University in Western Oromia, who were abducted by unidentified people in November 2019 and have been missing since.

Seven Oromo and Amhara political parties, including the two in the ruling coalition, have agreed to avert the escalating ethnic tension and clashes between Amhara and Oromo university students.

Chargé d’Affaires David Renz today administered the oath of service to 23 new Peace Corps Volunteers, who will teach English language in different public schools in Ethiopia.

The total number of vehicles Ethiopia has imported and registered last year (the fiscal year ended July 7, 2019) has surpassed the amount the country imported the previous year by 30,834 vehicles.

The Government of Ethiopia has awarded 12 small-scale solar energy development projects to three Chinese and one Spanish firms.

Reshuffling his cabinet for the third time since coming to power a year ago, the reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia today appointed new foreign affairs, defense and construction ministers.

The government of Ethiopia appeals to the international donors to help 8.3 million Ethiopians who need humanitarian aid including emergency food assistance.

Over 128,000 smallholder farmers organized in union in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia have moved into manufacturing by inaugurating today a new cooking oil manufacturing and packaging factory.