ethopia

Ethiopia, a market of a hundred million people is opening up to the world by allowing foreign participation in its successful state-owned telecommunications company and airline for the first time. The country will sell minority stakes to foreign and domestic investors in state monopolies …...

At least five people have been killed in northern Ethiopia after security forces fired on a crowd at a religious festival who were reportedly shouting anti-government slogans. Many more were injured in the incident in the town of Waldiya. Angry protesters have blocked roads and businesses are...

BURAYU, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopia’s top opposition figure and hundreds of others were released from prison on Wednesday as part of the government’s recent pledge to free detained politicians and "widen the democratic space for all" after the worst anti-government protests in a quarter-century...