Former Tigray Police Chief Breaks With Illegal TPLF, Joins Federal Government↗
Addis Ababa, September 24, 2026 (FMC) — Major General Gebre Adhana, former Commissioner of the Tigray Regional Police and a veteran TPLF leader, has broken with the illegal TPLF group and joined the Federal Government. Major General Gebre…
President Taye Challenges Global Order to Match Today’s Realities, Secure Africa an Equal Voice↗
Addis Ababa, September 24, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopian President Taye Atske-Selassie has called for a renewal of multilateralism and reform of the global order to reflect contemporary realities, stressing that Africa must have an equal voice in…
Ethiopia’s Sovereignty Is No Carpet for Cairo to Roll Out at Will↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — There is something revealing about a man who walks into another person’s house, points at the carpet and begins explaining where it should be laid. The carpet, after all, is not his. That is the…
MFA Ethiopia Official Says Egypt’s Colonial Sentiments Intolerable in Modern Diplomatic Landscape↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — Ambassador Zerihun Abebe, Director General for African Affairs at Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has criticized recent statements by Egyptian officials regarding the Abbay, describing them…
The African Airline That Made the World Smaller↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — There are airlines that connect cities, and then there are airlines that change the way a continent sees distance. Ethiopian Airlines belongs to the latter. For generations, the Ethiopian flag has…
Ethiopia Calls for Climate Action to Move From Commitments to Implementation Ahead of COP31↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia has called for a stronger shift from climate commitments to concrete implementation, emphasizing international cooperation and increased support for developing countries ahead of COP31.…
A Nation Is Built in the Space Between Its Differences↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — A nation is not held together by sameness. It is built when people of different identities, histories and aspirations can see themselves in a shared future—and when the institutions of the state give…
Ethiopia’s Next Five Years Take Shape as a New Government Prepares to Carry the People’s Mandate↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia is approaching a defining political transition as the outcome of the 7th General Election gives way to the formation of a new government and the opening of a newly elected Parliament,…
Living on the Neighbor’s Bounty, Yet Policing His Kitchen: Egypt’s Strange Ingratitude Toward Ethiopia↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — There is an old wisdom in the idea that one who drinks from another’s well should not presume to own the spring. It captures, in simple terms, a principle that is increasingly difficult to miss in…
Ethiopia Set to Constitute Government for New Five-Year Term as Newly Elected Parliament Opens on October 5↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia is set to constitute its government for a new five-year term as the newly elected House of Peoples’ Representatives opens on October 5, following the successful conclusion of the country’s…
The Map Is Moving: How Ethiopia Is Redrawing the Geography of Agriculture↗
Addis Ababa, September 23, 2026 (FMC) – There was a time when Ethiopia’s agricultural map seemed almost immutable. The highlands belonged to crops suited to cooler climates. The lowlands carried a different agricultural logic. Rainfall…
Ethiopia Advances Strategic Partnerships with Netherlands, UK on Trade, Development and Regional Peace↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia has advanced strategic engagement with the Netherlands and the United Kingdom on trade, investment, development cooperation and regional peace and stability during high-level talks held on…
UN Chief Commends Ethiopia’s Sustainable Development Trajectory, Reaffirms Support for COP32 Preparations↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has commended Ethiopia’s trajectory toward sustainable development and reaffirmed the UN’s readiness to continue supporting the country’s…
Ethiopia’s Changing Place in the World’s Imagination↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) – For decades, a narrow set of images came to define Ethiopia for much of the outside world: drought-stricken landscapes, famine, emergency relief, poverty and people waiting for assistance. Those…
Ethiopian Delegation Led by President Taye Advances National and African Priorities at UNGA 81↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — A high-level Ethiopian delegation led by President Taye Atske-Selassie is participating in the 81st Session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, with Ethiopia engaging in discussions…
No Pharaoh’s Scale Can Measure Ethiopia’s Right to the Abbay and Other Resources Within Its Sovereign Territory↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Egypt’s latest remarks on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) have once again brought an old question to the fore: whether Ethiopia’s sovereign development choices are to be judged by…
Cairo’s Latest Attack on Ethiopia Exposes a Mummified Nile Mindset Still Clinging to a Pharaoh-Era Sense of Entitlement↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — There is something striking about the language coming from Cairo: the more Africa changes, the more some of its arguments seem determined to remain frozen in another age. The latest remarks by…
The Harvest Behind the Hard Currency: Ethiopia’s Agricultural Shift from Import Bills to Export Power↗
Addis Ababa, September 21, 2026 (FMC) — A tonne of wheat grown at home can mean more than food in a national silo. It can mean foreign currency retained, pressure eased on the import bill and a little more room for a country to finance its…
Under Blue and Green Helmets: The Ethiopian Military’s Enduring Global Peacekeeping Legacy↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — For more than seven decades, Ethiopian soldiers have appeared far beyond the country’s borders not as forces of conquest, but as participants in international efforts to contain conflict, protect…
After the Ballot, the Building Begins: From a Record of Delivery to Five More Years of Turning Public Trust Into Progress↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia’s seventh general election has closed one political cycle and opened another: from campaigning and voting to governing, delivering and building. With the Prosperity Party securing 438 of the…
One Door to the State: Ethiopia’s Leap Toward Seamless, Citizen-Centered Public Service↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia is reshaping the way citizens access government services through MESOB, a digital public-service platform designed to bring multiple services together under a single, more accessible system…
Africa’s AI Champion and the Making of a Digital Republic: Ethiopia’s Transformation into an Intelligence Age↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — The transformation now unfolding across Ethiopia extends far beyond the computerization of public services or the adoption of artificial intelligence. It is a wider reconfiguration of the state’s…
From Arsenal to Intelligence: Ethiopia’s Rise in Military Technology, Intelligence and Indigenous Capability↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Across the world, the foundations of military power are being reshaped by technologies that have narrowed the distance between the factory, the laboratory and the battlefield—making industrial…
AU, UN Migration Agency Advance Common Agenda on Safe Migration, Diaspora Engagement and Continental Mobility↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and International Organization for Migration (IOM) Director General Amy Pope have advanced a common agenda on safe, orderly and regular…
Ethiopia, Finland Set Course for Deeper Partnership Across Bilateral, Regional and Multilateral Arenas↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia and F inland have agreed to further strengthen their bilateral relationship and deepen collaboration on shared interests across regional and multilateral arenas. In a message shared on his…
Ethiopia Rebukes Egyptian Minister’s Derogatory Attack on Ethiopians↗
Addis Ababa, September 22, 2026 (FMC) — Ethiopia has strongly rebuked recent remarks by Egypt’s Minister of Water Resources and Irrigation suggesting that Ethiopians lack education, describing the remarks as deeply regrettable and as…
Ethiopian Media Authority Suspends Tigray Television Indefinitely Over National Security Concerns↗
Addis Ababa, September 21, 2026 (FMC) — The Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA) has announced the immediate and indefinite suspension of Tigray Television, citing repeated broadcasts that it says jeopardize Ethiopia’s national interests,…
Ethiopia’s Fields Are Becoming a Laboratory for Africa’s Next Agricultural Revolution↗
Addis Ababa, September 21, 2026 (FMC) — Some agricultural transformations are measured in harvests. Others are measured in the number of assumptions they force an entire sector to reconsider. Across Ethiopia, an increasingly important…
Breaking the Yield Ceiling, Recasting a Continent’s Food Future: Ethiopia’s Agricultural Ascent↗
Addis Ababa, September 21, 2026 (FMC) — For much of the modern era, Ethiopia entered the global food conversation from the wrong end of the equation. Its name was repeatedly associated with famine, drought, food shortages and appeals for…
When the World Lost Its Balance, Ethiopia Found Its Stride↗
Addis Ababa, September 21, 2026 (FMC) — There were years when the ground seemed to shift beneath almost everything: a pandemic crossing borders without passports, supply chains snapping across continents, food and energy prices surging,…