London, Oct. 20, 2019 (AltAfrica)-For more than a century, the secretive imperial palace complex has stood over Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa, closed off to everyone but the country’s leaders and the troops who protected them. Almost hidden from view on a wooded bluff, its forbidding 40-acre compound was unknown even to some of those living ...

London, Oct. 2, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ethiopia on Tuesday launched a China-backed riverside green development project that aims to create a beautiful and healthy environment in the capital city, Addis Ababa. The Addis Ababa riverside development project in its entirety will include the development of 48 hectares of the central square, 51.3-km riverside which runs along the ...

London, Sep 9, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A police commander in Ethiopia has told the BBC about how as a teenager she joined a rebel group – the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) – at the end of the 1970s and fought her father on the battlefield. He had sided with the country’s Marxist military rulers. “Our father, ...

London, Sep 8, 2019 (AltAfrica)-A landslide in Ethiopia’s Southern regional state has left seven people dead, local authorities said on Sunday. In a press statement, Communication Office, Dawuro zone of Southern regional state, said a landslide caused by heavy rains on Saturday afternoon left seven people dead. READ ALSO: NIGERIA LAUNCHES YELLOW FEVER VACCINATION CAMPAIGN ...

London, August 28, 2019 (AltAfrica)-The United Nations Migration Agency IOM has brought the highly respected cultural leaders of Aba Gedas in the Oromia region and Gedeo and West Guji Zones in Ethiopia for a discussion on statutory peace building in the country The talks focused on how future conflicts could be prevented and improving social ...

London, August 6, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Gold detector devices assembly plant which helps artisans to detect and explore gold faster has been inaugurated in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian capital on Monday The plant owned by the Dubai based Al Hilali Group assembles the gold detector devices in partnership with Minelab Metal Detectors of Australia. “The devices help artisan gold ...

London, August 1, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ethiopia’s earth observatory satellite will be launched into space by November 2019 as preparations are finalized, according to Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute.  In an exclusive interview with Ethiopia News Agency, ENA, Institute Director-General Solomon Belay said “we have completed about 95 percent of the satellite, and checking and launching will ...

London, July 31, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Financial Intelligence Units (FIUs) of two COMESA Member States, Ethiopia and Uganda were among those recently admitted to the Egmont Group, a global financial network that formulates policies and responses to financial crimes such as money laundering and terrorist financing. Their admission alongside the Dominican Republic, Palestine, Papua New Guinea and ...

London, July 30, 2019 (AltAfrica)–Ethiopia on Monday sets a new world record for the number of trees planted in a day after planting over 249 million trees. Though the record is yet to be certified by Guinness Word Record but the Monday record smashed the preceding record for most trees planting in a day. Forest ...

London, July 29, 2019 (AltAfrica)-Ethiopia is targeting a new world record in tree planting with 200 million trees to be planted in a single day to combat effects of deforestation in the east African country Already, the country has planted millions of trees in a spate of 4 hours The current World Record for planting ...