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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 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…

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 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.

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.

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.

Famine threatens 17 million people in the Horn of Africa. About 12 million of them have already needed food aid now. That the FAO, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, announced Sunday. In large parts of the Horn of Africa drought prevails; there is only a quarter of the normal amount of rain has fallen in the past six months.

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.

During a festival in the Ethiopian Bishoftu according to opposition groups Sunday many dead and wounded when shots were fired and there was a huge throng among protesters. The government has acknowledged that people have died, the opposition speaks about fifty killed demonstrators.

Ethiopia should allow foreign observers in areas where security forces last week would have shot dozens of demonstrators.

Security forces in Ethiopia have over the weekend in the Oromiya and Amhara certainly killed 67 demonstrators. That Amnesty International reported Monday. Earlier, the Ethiopian opposition politicians all mention of dozens of deaths by the violence of soldiers and police officers.

The US is trying to get African leaders to exert pressure on Burundi to accept man still 5000 peacekeepers.

Airport Commercial Airports Enterprise Ethiopia wants to build an airport where each year 120 million travelers can make use of . The airport needs to serve as a hub for the entire African continent , a company spokesman said Friday .