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The plane of Ethiopian Airlines that crashed last week had an unusually high speed after it got off the ground at Addis Ababa airport. Not long after departure...

The passenger plane that crashed in Ethiopia made a strange noise and left a trail of smoke behind. That is what testifies to the disaster against Reuters news agency.

A Greek businessman said he missed the crashed flight from Ethiopian Airlines to Nairobi last Sunday. In a message on Facebook, Antonis Mavropoulos said that...

The black boxes with flight data from Sunday crashed in Ethiopia Boeing 737 MAX-8 were recovered on Monday. Researchers found the parts at the site of the crash. It's about the…

The Ethiopian airline Ethiopian Airlines has announced a day after the fatal accident of a Boeing 737 Max that the model will no longer be used. That is mainly a...

Five Dutch people were killed in the air disaster in Ethiopia. That is what the Kenyan transport minister James Macharia tells us at a press conference. The plane from Ethiopian Airlines was on its way to...

A plane from Ethiopian Airlines that was on its way to the Kenyan capital Nairobi crashed. On board were according to news agency Reuters 149 passengers and eight crew members.

The engineer who manages the construction of a controversial dam in Ethiopia has been found dead in his car in Addis Ababa. It is not clear whether he was murdered or that he himself put an end to his life.

The Ethiopian parliament on Friday agreed to a law to grant amnesty to the thousands of political prisoners, many of whom have been released in recent months. All charges and suspicions against them will expire.

The rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea is entering a new phase. The Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki will make a return visit to Addis Ababa tomorrow, after the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Asmara last weekend. Now the hard work begins to put the beautiful words and promises of the past weeks and months into action.

After almost twenty years, Ethiopia and Eritrea will restore relations. This was decided by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and the Eritrean President Isaia Afewerki at a joint summit. The countries are rivals that were almost at war.

The attack with a grenade on the premier of Ethiopia on Saturday demanded a second life. The Health Minister announced Sunday that a victim had died from the injuries.

At a meeting with the new Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed someone has thrown a grenade to the podium with the prime minister. The prime minister remained unharmed but later declared in front of the television that 'a few deaths' had fallen.

The Eritrean dictator Isaias Afewerki sends a delegation to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to 'take a constructive position' in the relationship with the neighboring country. This reported diplomatic sources from Eritrea.

The South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar has accepted an invitation to talk to President Salva Kiir next week in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, as a mediator on behalf of the East African joint venture, proposed to bring IGAD to the table for both rivals on 20 June. It could be the trigger for new peace talks.

Saudi Arabia has approved the release of about one thousand Ethiopian prisoners, who are detained in the Gulf State for various reasons. Addis Abeba said that in the media on Saturday. The Saudi decision was the desired response to a request from the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who this week paid an official visit to Riyadh.

Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on Friday, one day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn filed his resignation. The country has been struggling for some time with unrest and a political crisis.

Ethiopia has banned the adoption of Ethiopian children by foreigners. With this, the government wants to prevent children being exposed to the dangers of abuse or abuse.

Ethiopia releases all political prisoners in an attempt to establish a new political dialogue. This is what the Ethiopian government leader, Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, said on Wednesday. He also announced the closure of the infamous detention center Maekelawi. According to the newspaper Addis Standard, this would become a museum.

The government of South Sudan and rebel groups in the country have agreed a cease-fire. A treaty to that effect was signed Thursday by the warring parties in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

The Ethiopian Parliament approved Friday's lifting of the state of emergency, announced last year after large-scale riots had fallen hundreds of dead. The situation has now largely stabilized, according to the government.

The death toll has risen by the collapse of a garbage dump near the Ethiopian capital Addis Ebeba to 113. There are eighty people missing, but the hope of survivors is minimal.

Thai Customs has 21 horns of the endangered rhino confiscated. Together weighed the discovery, the biggest in years, almost 50 kilos. The value is estimated at over 4.5 million. In Asia, the belief in the healing powers large. The plea would help against anything and everything, from fever to cancer.

The death toll by shifting a heap near Addis Ababa has risen to at least fifty, including several children. The radio station Fana reported 62 deaths. So far, 28 wounded found. A spokesman for the Ethiopian capital are 49 cabins and structures buried. About the cause of the tragedy he could not say anything.

Least 35 people have started to slide when waste was killed on a garbage dump in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. Several makeshift huts and other buildings disappeared under an avalanche of waste, said the mayor of the city Sunday.

The African Union Morocco Tuesday formally readmitted as a member for more than thirty years after Rabat withdrew from the precursor of the continental organization because of a disagreement over the status of Western Sahara.

The African Union considers Yahya Jammeh since January 19 no longer as a legitimate president of Gambia. That the Council for Peace and Security of the AU decided Friday.

South Korean President Park Geun-hye and her entourage took on their journey to Africa, hundreds of Viagra pills.

An American is killed when his car on the outskirts of the capital Addis Ababa on people encountered who threw stones. The US Embassy in Addis reported this Wednesday. The cause is not yet clear, but the man died Tuesday.

As of Wednesday, the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa rail reconnected to the port of Djibouti on the Gulf of Aden. The China landscaped rail of more than 750 kilometers of the first modern electric railway in Africa. The Chinese news agency Xinhua reported that the rail of 3.6 billion euro is crucial for the modernization of the African country.