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The 2014–2016 Oromo protests were a series of protests and resistance first sparked on 25 April 2014. The initial actions were taken in opposition to the Addis Ababa Master Plan, and resumed on 12 November 2015 by university students and farmers in the town of Ginchi, located 80 km southwest of Addis Ababa, encircled by the Oromia region.
Ambachew Mekonnen (Ge'ez: አምባቸው መኮንን; c. 1971 – 22 June 2019) was an Ethiopian politician and economist who served as the president of the Amhara Region of Ethiopia from March to June 2019, when he was assassinated in a coup attempt. Life. Ambachew Mekonnen was born in Tach Gayint, South Gondar, to a family of farmers.
The TDF–OLA joint offensive was a rebel offensive in the Tigray War and the OLA insurgency starting in late October 2021 launched by a joint rebel coalition of the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) against the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and government. The TDF and OLA took control of several towns south ...
Pro-government. Language. Amharic. Headquarters. Addis Ababa. Website. Website. Addis Zemen (አዲስ ዘመን; "New Era" in English) [1] is an Ethiopian Amharic newspaper published by the federal government's Ethiopian Press Agency, [2] which also publishes the English-language Ethiopian Herald .
Simegnew Bekele Aynalem ( Amharic: ስመኘው በቀለ አይናለም; 13 September 1964 – 26 July 2018) was an Ethiopian civil engineer who served as chief project manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project as well as three other similar dam projects in Ethiopia. [2] He was considered the "public face" of the dam project.
Birtukan Mideksa ( Amharic: ብርቱካን ሚደቅሳ; born 27 April 1974) is an Ethiopian politician and former judge who has served as chairwoman of the National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) from 2018 to 2023. [2] She was the founder and leader of the opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party from 2008 to 2010.
Habesha peoples (Ge'ez: ሐበሠተ; Amharic: ሐበሻ; Tigrinya: ሓበሻ; commonly used exonym: Abyssinians) is an ethnic or pan-ethnic identifier that has been historically employed to refer to Semitic-speaking and predominantly Oriental Orthodox Christian peoples found in the highlands of Ethiopia and Eritrea between Asmara and Addis Ababa (i.e. the modern-day Amhara, Tigrayan, Tigrinya ...
1942. Headquarters. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Official languages. Amharic, Arabic and Oromo. Website. ena.et. The Ethiopian News Agency ( Amharic: የኢትዮጵያ ዜና አገልግሎት Ye-Ityopya Zéna Agelgelot ( IZA) or ENA) is the official news agency of the government of Ethiopia. It is the oldest news organisation in Ethiopia ...