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.

Over 40 S. Sudanese students stranded in Ethiopia
Monday 20 July 2015
July 19, 2015 (TORIT) – At least 48 students hailing from South Sudan’s Eastern Equatoria state are stranded in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa after allegedly being neglected by their government. The South Sudan Embassy in Ethiopia (...)
Sudan downplays negative impact of Ethiopian dam project
Thursday 30 May 2013
May 30, 2013 (KHARTOUM) - The Sudanese government has declared that the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) does not pose a threat to Sudan, disclosing existence of consultations and understandings among Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt on (...)
South Sudan’s Kiir, Ethiopia’s Abiy hold talks on peace and UN sanctions
Thursday 31 May 2018
May 30, 2018 (JUBA/ADDIS ABABA) - South Sudan President Salva Kiir Wednesday was in Addis Ababa to discuss the IGAD brokered peace forum on the implementation of 2015 peace agreement but also the looming UN sanctions on his senior (...)
Sudan’s FM calls to speed-up border demarcation with Ethiopia
Wednesday 1 August 2018
July 31, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan’s Foreign Minister El-Dirdeiry Mohamed Ahmed has called for completing border demarcation between Sudan and Ethiopia in order to settle border differences with the eastern neighbour. A road leading to (...)
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 (...)
Sudan, Ethiopia form joint committees to resolve border disputes: official
Wednesday 25 April 2018
April 24, 2018 (KHARTOUM) - Commissioner of Al-Fashaga County Mohamed Adam said joint committees between Sudan and Ethiopia have been formed to tackle disputes over borderland, particularly during the rainy season. Speaking during a (...)
Sudan ranks at bottom end of latest UN development index
Wednesday 20 March 2013
March 18, 2013 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan languished at the lower end of the latest Human Development Index (HDI) published recently by the United Nations, ranking 171 out of 187 countries included world-wide. While the ranking puts Sudan (...)
Ethiopians urge US to play major role to resolve Nile water controversy
Tuesday 10 August 2010
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle August 9, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopians and Ethiopian-Americans living in Washington DC urged the U.S. government to play a significant role in bringing a lasting solution to the calls for equitable utilization of (...)
S. Sudan and Ethiopia agree on joint border security force
Monday 3 September 2018
August 2, 2018 (JUBA/ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia and South Sudan have agreed to form a joint border security force to halt the flow of arms between the two nations. The agreement between the two countries was signed at the end of a border (...)
Nuer community call for boycott of national dialogue in Addis Ababa
Thursday 15 March 2018
March 14, 2018 (ADDIS ABABA) - Members of the national dialogue’s subcommittee for refugees are in Addis Ababa for consultative meetings with communities there, but leaders of the Nuer community called for a boycott of the event. (...)

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