Ethiopia

Official Name: Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

Capital: Addis Ababa

Area: 1,104,300 km2

Official language: Amharic

Currency: Ethiopian birr

Dialing code: 251 | Calling code: +251

Geography

Region: Horn of Africa / East Africa

Border Countries:

Djibouti 337 km
Eritrea 912 km
Kenya 830 km
Somalia 1,626 km
South Sudan 883 km
Sudan 723 km

Borders:

Government

Ruling Party: Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF)

President: Girma Wolde-Giorgis
Prime Minister: Hailemariam Desalegn
Foreign Affairs minister: Tedros Adhanom

Military: Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF)

Minister of Defense: Siraj Fagesa
Chief-of-Staff: General Samora Yenus

Official Names:

1974-1987 | Derg (Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia),
1987-1991 | People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
1991-1995 | Ethiopia (Ityop’iya)
1995-to date. | Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Ityop’iya Federalawi Demokrasiyawi Ripeblik)

Presidents 1991 onwards:

1991-1995 | Meles Zenawi, Interim President (TPLF/EPRDF)
1995-2001 | Negasso Gidada, President (OPDO)
1991-to date | Girma Wolde-Giorgis (EPRDF)

Prime Ministers 1995 onwards:

1995-2012 | Meles Zenawi (TPLF/EPRDF) d. 20 August 2012
2012-to date Hailemariam Desalegn, Acting Prime Minister (SEPDM/EPRDF)

Links

Ethiopia - Videos

Guardian | Ethiopia’s prime minister Meles Zenawi dies after illness – video

Ethiopian government spokesman Bereket Simon announces the death of prime minister Meles Zenawi in Addis Ababa, and declares a period of national mourning. Meles had been receiving treatment abroad when he died. His body will be flown back to Ethiopia. Deputy prime minister Hailemariam Desalegn will take over the running of government

Al Jazeera English | Talk to Jazeera - Meles Zenawi | 22 Nov 2007

Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow talks to the Ethiopian prime minister about his country’s role in Somalia and asks him whether his country is, as the UN claims, on the verge of war with Eritrea.

Al Jazeera English | Talk to Jazeera - Meles Zenawi Part 1 & 2 | 18 March 2007

Al Jazeera English’s Andrew Simmons talks to Meles Zenawi, the Prime Minister of Ethiopia - on Ethiopia’s controversial deployment in Somalia and human rights in the African nation.

South Sudan says Abyei will be reclaimed “at any cost”
Monday 6 May 2013
May 5,2013 (JUBA) – South Sudan said on Sunday that it will reclaim the oil- producing region of Abyei from the government of neighboring Sudan with which it has repeatedly failed to settle the region’s final status “at any cost”, and (...)
2000 Ethiopians evacuated from Sudan amid disease fears
Monday 24 November 2014
November 23, 2014 (EL-DABBA) – Sudanese authorities and popular bodies have evacuated two thousands Ethiopian nationals from the locality of El-Dabba in the Northern state following discovery of several Hepatitis and AIDS cases among (...)
Annual meeting of African academies held in Ethiopia
Thursday 14 November 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle November 13, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – The ninth annual meeting of the African Science Academies (AMASA) was concluded on Wednesday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting, which was held under a theme (...)
Sudan’s Bashir in Ethiopia for AU summit
Thursday 30 January 2014
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle January 29, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) - Sudanese president Omer Hassan Al-Bashir arrived in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Wednesday where he is heading a delegation at an African Union (AU) summit on agriculture (...)
The crisis of ethnic identity and democracy in Ethiopia
Friday 23 May 2008
By Deng Yiech Bachech Rediscover your ethnicity…. You are an important ethnic group in the larger Bantu grouping. The nation is artificial, but ethnicity is natural. After the fall of Mengistu’s Derg regime in May 1991, people of (...)
“The Nile: Shared River, Collective Action”
Thursday 22 February 2018
By Dr. Eng. Seleshi Bekele Ethiopia is hosting the 2018 Regional Nile Day Celebration in commemoration of the establishment of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) on February 22, 1999 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Participants from Nile (...)
Ethiopia probes ethnic clashes, Kenya on high alert
Thursday 2 August 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 1, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian government has dispatched an investigative team to probe the latest deadly tribal fighting in South Ethiopia near the border with Kenya. Eighteen people were killed and (...)
CECAFA: Ethiopia beats South Sudan 1-0
Sunday 25 November 2012
By Bonifacio Taban Kuich November 25, 2012 (BENTIU) - Ethiopia beat South Sudan 1:0 as the Tusker-sponsored Confederation for East and Central African Football Association (CECAFA) football tournament kicked off in Kampala, Uganda (...)
Ethiopian gov. refute claims that PM’s health is critical
Friday 20 July 2012
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle July 19, 2012 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian government on Thursday dismissed growing reports that prime minister Meles Zenawi was seriously ill and at risk of loosing his life. Ethiopian prime minister Meles (...)
Sudanese-Ethiopian strategic military meeting kicks off in Khartoum
Tuesday 27 February 2018
February 26, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The second Sudanese-Ethiopian Military Strategic Forum has convened in Khartoum on Monday. The Ethiopian delegation headed by the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces, Lieut. Gen. Adam (...)

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