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.

Djibouti, Sudan support Ethiopia’s decision to withdraw from Eritrean border town
Saturday 9 June 2018
June 8, 2018 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s two regional allies Sudan and Djibouti have welcomed a pledge by the Ethiopian prime minister to implement a peace deal with Eritrea signed in 2000 ending a border dispute between the two (...)
Mass migration to Ethiopia after South Sudan army captures Nasir
Thursday 8 May 2014
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 7, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Thousands of South Sudanese refugees have poured into neighbouring Ethiopia after government forces on Sunday took control of the rebel stronghold of Nasir in the Greater Upper Nile (...)
RSF: East Africa stagnates near bottom of the index, Mali nosedives
Wednesday 30 January 2013
Reporters Without Borders 30 January 2013 World Press Freedom Index 2013 - Africa East Africa: journalists’ graveyard In Somalia (175th, -11) 18 journalists were killed, caught up in bomb attacks or the direct targets of murder, (...)
Ethiopia: Lifting of ban on off-campus education welcomed
Wednesday 3 November 2010
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle November 2, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia’s Federal Ministry of Education has lifted a controversial ban it imposed against distance education – learning remotely over the internet, post or telephone – which is mainly (...)
Tigray Party urges solidarity with opposition forces to strengthen Ethiopia’s unity
Monday 2 July 2007
Tigray for Unity and Democracy Party (TUDP) Press release Ethiopia: no more Ethiopian sacrifice for her enemy July 1, 2007 — The latest unsuccessful attempt by Meles Zenawi to divert the attention of the Ethiopian (...)
Sudanese university honors Ethiopia’s first lady as board member
Saturday 7 May 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 6, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia’s first lady Azeb Mesifin attended a ceremony at Sudan’s University of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) where she was invited to become an honorary board member of (...)
Ethiopia obtains $324 mln from coffee export
Monday 4 June 2007
June 3, 2007 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia has obtained close to 324.5 million U.S. dollars from export of coffee since August last year, said the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development on Sunday. Agricultural Products Export (...)
Egyptian delegation heads to Ethiopia for consultation
Friday 29 April 2011
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle April 28, 2011 (ADDIS ABABA) - A popular Egyptian public diplomacy delegation will arrive in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday to pave the road for a better relationship between the two countries, as (...)
Ethiopian insurance company to open branch in South Sudan
Thursday 2 September 2010
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle September 1, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC) says it will open its first foreign based branch in Juba town, making it the second state-owned financial firm to start business in the (...)
Ethiopia’s Ogaden rebels declare unilateral ceasefire
Monday 13 August 2018
August 13, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - The Ethiopian rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) Sunday declared a unilateral ceasefire pointing to the call for peace by the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. ONLF fighters (file/Getty) The ONLF (...)

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