Completion of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), launched in April 2011 and originally planned for completion in 2017, has been rescheduled. It will now become operational in four years, by 2022. The rescheduling of the timescale of the Dam Project has been done because of the problems associated with delays in the provision of the Dam’s electro-mechanical and metal works. A detailed assessment and measurement of the sophisticated electro-mechanical works of the Dam is now being made by carefully selected well experienced and internationally renowned companies to devise remedial plan and continue the work. The work on the Dam…
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The Ethiopia-Kenya High-level Cross-border Peace Dialogue was held at the end of last week (December 14-15) in Hawassa, the capital of Ethiopia’s Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State. The dialogue was organized by IGAD’s Conflict Early Warning and Response Mechanism (CEWARN). It was led by Zeinu Jamal, State Minister of Peace of Ethiopia, Peter K. Thuku, Head of Kenya’s National Conflict Early Warning Response Unit (CEWERU), representing the Minister of Interior and Coordination of National Government of Kenya, and as the Director of CEWARN, Camlus Omogo. High-level officials from the adjoining counties and regional states of both countries were…
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In Kenya, President Isaias was welcomed by Dr. Monica Juma, Kenyan Foreign Minister, at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport when he arrived for his two-day official visit on December 13. He was accompanied by Foreign Minister Osman Saleh, Presidential Advisor, Yemane Gebreab and the Director of the Office of the President, Mr. Amin Hassan. President Isaias held discussions with President Kenyatta on issues of common interests, including strengthening bilateral relations and regional peace and stability. The two leaders noted the potential opportunities of cooperation between Eritrea and Kenya. They agreed to work to develop their partnership in trade, investment and…
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President Sahle-Work led the Ethiopian delegation to the EU-Africa High Level Forum held in Vienna this week, December 17-18 under the theme “Taking cooperation to the digital age`”, to promote innovation and digitalization as important enablers for future development. President Sahle-Work addressed the Forum on Tuesday (December 18), underlining that the information age in which we live demands catching up with the rapidly changing developments in the digital sector. She said we were witnessing that fast growth in digital economy brought more opportunities for businesses and entrepreneurs, opened doors to international markets and allowed many more to participate in the…
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The nation paid its respects this week to Girma Wolde-Giorgis, who died on Saturday (December 16) after a short illness. Ethiopia’s President for more than a decade, a greatly respected environmental activist, and long-time civil servant, he was laid to rest on Wednesday (December 19) with full state honors including a 21-gun salute at the Kidist Selassie Menbere Tsebaot Church (Holy Trinity Cathedral) in Addis Ababa. The funeral ceremony was attended by high-level government officials, including President Sahle-Work Zewdie, Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed, the Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives, Tagesse Chafo, the Speaker of the House of…
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News in Brief Presidents of Djibouti and Sudan make official visits to Ethiopia Progress report on implementation of the South Sudan peace agreement Two years as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council (Part 1) Ethiopia joins 163 nations in adopting the Global Compact on Migration The 3rd Ethiopia-Canada Business and Investment Forum held in Canada Government redoubling efforts to ensure safety and wellbeing of Ethiopian migrants News in Brief Africa and the African Union As one of the A-3 non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, Ethiopia started its two-year term Security Council on 1st January 2017.…
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The Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Meles Alem, in a press briefing on Thursday this week (December 13) emphasized the Government was redoubling its efforts to ensure safety and wellbeing of Ethiopian citizens living in the Middle East and other African countries. He noted the Ministry had issued Ethiopian passports to over 40, 000 unregistered Ethiopian nationals who had been stateless in other countries. In addition, 2,250 Ethiopians, released from Saudi Arabian jails following successful negotiations with the Government of Saudi Arabia had also been recently repatriated. Ethiopia is, of course, both a destination and a country of…
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The 3rd Ethiopia-Canada Business and Investment Forum was held on Tuesday (December 11) in Toronto, Canada, co-organized by the Embassy of Ethiopia in Ottawa, WAFA Marketing and Promotion and MineAfrica. The official delegations were led by Ethiopia’s State Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. AkliluHailemichael, and Canada’s delegation by Mr. Jean-Philippe Linteau, Director of Clean Technology, Infrastructure, Climate Finance and Life Sciences, of Global Affairs. Representatives from more than 80 Canadian companies attended. Dr. Aklilu in a keynote speech underlining the all-round bilateral cooperation between Ethiopia and Canada and the investment opportunities and incentives that Ethiopia offered to foreign investors, urged…
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State Minister Dr. Markos Tekle led the Ethiopian delegation to the Intergovernmental Conference to adopt the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration hosted by the Government of Morocco this week in Marrakech (December 10-11). 164 of the 193 members of the United Nations have now adopted the Global Compact which includes 23 distinct objectives and nearly two hundred actions to achieve these objectives which include protecting the lives, security and human rights of all migrants; strengthening measures to combat trafficking, improving migration management and regular migration pathways; gathering and disseminating information; promoting productive employment and entrepreneurship opportunities in…
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Ethiopia started its two-year term as a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council on 1st January 2017. It ends on 31st December 2018 and South Africa will join the Security Council to represent Africa alongside Cote D’Ivoire and Equatorial Guinea. In these two years, the world has faced unprecedented peace and security problems and the multilateral international system has been under enormous pressure in many respects. Indeed, in terms of threats to international peace and security, the Council has witnessed tensions not seen since the end of the Cold War. Before it joined the Security Council, Ethiopia emphasized…