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.

Eritrea, Ethiopia trade blame for border stalemate - UN
Wednesday 18 January 2006
Jan 17, 2006 (NAIROBI) — Eritrea and Ethiopia are continuing to blame each other for their border stalemate, the United Nations said Tuesday as a US diplomatic delegation prepares to visit the region in a bid to avert a new war between (...)
Ethiopia, Eritrea close to war, UN urge action
Thursday 3 November 2005
Nov 3, 2005 (ASMARA) — Military moves by Ethiopia and Eritrea near their border have produced a crisis that needs urgent attention or the former foes could resume their 1998-2000 war, U.N. peacekeepers said on Thursday. The leaders of (...)
Addis Ababa praises Sudan for repatriating Ethiopian rebels
Monday 14 September 2015
September 13, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) - The Ethiopian security service on Sunday announced the return of a dissident Ethiopian general to the country with 800 rebel fighters, and praised the neighbouring Sudan for securing their (...)
Oromo youth: Washington rally was a success, call for another in Minneapolis
Thursday 5 April 2007
International Oromo Youth Association Press Release “Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” Author Francis Bacon April 04, (...)
Ethiopia’s PM appoints new state minister of transport
Thursday 7 September 2006
Sept 6, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — Prime Minstar Meles Zenawi has appointed David Ruach Tang as state minister of transport and communications. Office of the Prime Minister on Wednesday announced the appointment of David Ruach Tang as state (...)
Ethiopian finance minister holds talks in China
Thursday 12 January 2006
Jan 11, 2006 (BEIJING) — In 2005, the trade volume between China and Ethiopia rose 68 per cent to more than 300m US dollars, sources with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce said on Wednesday 11 January. Vice-Minister of Commerce Wei (...)
Ethiopia’s Tigray region pardons over 2000 prisoners
Tuesday 11 November 2008
By Tefsa-alem Tekle November 10, 2008 (MEKELLE) — Ethiopia’s Tigray Regional government officially releases 2167 prisoners in a full amnesty grant to mark the nations and nationalities day which is to be celebrated soon. Among the (...)
Ethiopia: UNHCR plans to resettle thousands of refugees
Saturday 14 December 2013
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle December 13, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) - The United Nations refugee agency said on Friday that it is planning to resettle over 3,800 refugees in Ethiopia to a third country. This follows record submissions for (...)
Ethiopians seek review to old treaty on Nile water
Friday 2 October 2009
By Tesfa-alem Tekle October 1, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopia, being the source of 85 percent of the total Nile waters flow, claims that it could self-support its hungry people off foreign food aid if granted to irrigate from the Blue (...)
Ethiopia calls upon Starbucks to support its plan to trademark coffee names
Thursday 26 October 2006
Ethiopian government / Oxfam joint campaign Press Release Oct 26, 2006 — Ethiopia urges Starbucks to support the country’s plan to trademark speciality coffee names, a process that could bring Ethiopian farmers an estimated $88m (...)

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