Addis Abeba: The federal high court Arada branch has today granted the police additional 28 days to remand and investigate prominent opposition leader, Dr. Merera Gudina, chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC).

Ethiopia Zare: This morning journalist Temesgen Desalegn family says that the Zeway prison administration sent him to a nearby hospital for further treatment.

Miruts Yifter, an Ethiopian running legend who inspired world-class athletes like Haile Gebreselassie, has died in Canada at age 72, his family and Ethiopian Athletics Federation officials told the Associated Press on Friday.

By William Davison

In Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s northern highlands, a lone tourist pauses to take a photo of a fortress built more than two centuries ago. Nearby, past a row of gift shops, lies the wreck of a coach torched during unrest in August.

Ethiopian government and United States officials met in Addis Ababa on Thursday for the 7th Bilateral Democracy, Governance and Human Rights Working Group.

The European Parliament (EP) has officially written to the Ethiopian government seeking clarification on the arrest of an opposition leader, Dr. Merera Gudina.

Ethiopian government is set to cede 75 per cent shareholding of Beles Sugar Project located in Amhara region, to Turkish company Bedisa Group for $ one billion.

By Berhanu G. Balcha

Anti-TPLF demonstration was held in Copenhagen, Denmark on 3. November 2016. Oromo, Ogaden and other members of the Ethiopian community stood together and united to denounce the TPLF-led Ethiopian regime’s massive human rights violations in Ethiopia, and demanded the Danish government and the EU to stand at the side of the people in Ethiopia.