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Ethiopian Birr News Today Live Rates and USD to ETB Updates
Zehabesha
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August 9, 2025
What does this mean for you? This guide tracks the USD to ETB rate today, compares bank rates with market prices, and explains what’s driving moves: reform steps, inflation pressure, remittance flows, and import demand. You’ll also see quick...
Lucy, Selam to Promote Ethiopia’s Rich Early History Heritages in Central Europe
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 15, 2025 (ENA) -- Tourism Minister Selamit Kassa said that the remains of Lucy (Dinknesh) and Selam will promote Ethiopia’s rich prehistory heritage in a new way during their stay in Central Europe. These exceptionally...
Ethiopia Achieves Significant Progress in Enhancing its Geostrategic Standing, Economic Dev’t: Prosperity Party
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 8, 2025 (ENA) -- Ethiopia has achieved significant progress over the last seven years across various sectors, particularly in enhancing the country’s geostrategic standing in the region through appropriate and lawful...
Pagad march in Bonteheuwel, and more from around the world
Daily Maverick
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August 29, 2025
Police, PAGAD members and residents during the PAGAD march through Bonteheuwel streets on August 24, 2025 in Cape Town, South Africa. People Against Gangsterism And Drugs (PAGAD) say they want their streets back and are saying enough to...
UK Court of Appeal overturns High Court Epping hotel asylum seeker ban
World Socialist Web Site
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August 29, 2025
The Court of Appeal overturned on Friday an interim injunction imposed by the High Court last week, which had banned the Bell Hotel in Epping, England from housing asylum seekers. Since July far-right forces—including openly neo-Nazi groups and...
Lucy, icon of human evolution, travels to Europe for landmark exhibition
Africanews
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August 15, 2025
The fossilised remains of Lucy, one of the world’s most famous prehistoric skeletons, have left Ethiopia for display in Europe for the first time. The 3.2-million-year-old specimen, belonging to the early human ancestor Australopithecus afarensis,...
Ethiopianness: A Culture of Respect Worth Preserving
The Reporter Ethiopia
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August 9, 2025
Identity is the sum of qualities, outlooks, traits, and appearances that distinguish one person—or one nation—from another. Ethiopia, as a country, has its share of such defining characteristics: coffee that awakens the world, spiritual treasures...
Repression and Intercommunal Violence are endangering Stability in One of Ethiopia's Few Peaceful Regional States
IOL
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Ali-Guban Mohamed|Published 19 minutes ago 7min The Somali Regional State of Ethiopia is facing mounting challenges of identity politics, repression, bad governance, and abject poverty. One of few remaining peaceful regional states of Ethiopia...
Aksum and Adulis From One Kingdom to Ethiopia and Eritrea
Zehabesha
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August 15, 2025
Aksum and Adulis were twin pillars of the Aksumite Kingdom, linking highland markets to Red Sea trade between 300 BCE and 1,000 CE. Today, Aksum lies in Ethiopia while Adulis is in Eritrea. What is the connection between Aksum and Adulis? Why are...
Ethiopian Airlines Group Unveils a Global Standard Airport in Wollo Kombolcha
Breaking Travel News
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August 6, 2025
Ethiopian Airlines Group, the largest airline group in Africa, unveils a global standard airport in Wollo Kombolcha, north-central part of Ethiopia. The newly enhanced airport facility which includes Passenger Terminal building, VIP Terminal, and...
World Trade Organization: Questions about what it means for HE
University World News
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ETHIOPIA The opportunities that joining the World Trade Organization (WTO) will unlock for Ethiopia, which is negotiating to join the international body, were the focus of an article published in University World News on 21 August 2025. With its...
At Ethiopia’s Edge, Where Blistered Feet Rest and the Road H...
Modern Ghana
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Dewele, Ethiopia – In the dry borderlands near Dewele in eastern Ethiopia, the air hangs heavy with heat as trucks thunder past, ferrying goods across the eastern corridor. Amidst the dust, tired figures walk slowly beside the road, mostly young...
Ethiopians risk dangerous seas for a better life elsewhere
Namibian Sun
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August 7, 2025
AP - ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia The deadly shipwreck in waters off Yemen’s coast over the weekend is weighing heavily on the hearts of many in Ethiopia. Twelve migrants on the boat that carried 154 Ethiopians survived the tragedy – at least 68 died and...
US$10 billion Ethiopian Airlines–AfDB airport project takes off
AviTrader Aviation News
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August 14, 2025
Ethiopia has begun preparations for a US$10 billion plan to build Bishoftu International Airport (BIA), set to rival the world’s largest hubs. The African Development Bank (AfDB) will lead the financing effort, aiming to mobilise nearly US$8...
African Development Bank backs Ethiopia’s cargo super-airport
Logistics Update Africa
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August 14, 2025
Ethiopia has launched its $10 billion Bishoftu International Airport project, with the African Development Bank as the initial mandated lead arranger, global coordinator, and book runner to mobilise nearly $8 billion of the required financing. The...
Surge in Chikungunya Cases Among UK Travellers
Medscape
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Travel-associated chikungunya cases in England have almost tripled this year, according to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA). Between January and June 2025, 73 cases were reported compared with 27 in the same period in 2024 – the highest...
Ethiopian-Kenyan Investment Forum Unlocks New Business Opportunities
Ethiopian News Agency
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Addis Ababa, August 6, 2025 (ENA)— Ethiopia and Kenya are deepening their economic cooperation through the exploration of expanded business and trade opportunities. The Ethiopian Embassy in Nairobi, in partnership with the Kenya National Chamber...
AfDB, Ethiopian Airlines ink $500m deal for $10bn airport project
Daily Trust
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The African Development Bank (AfDB) has committed a significant $500 million loan to the Ethiopian Airlines Group (EAG). This funding is for the new Bishoftu airport project, which is set to become Africa’s largest aviation hub. The phase one of...
Ethiopians told to 'avoid irregular routes' after Yemen disaster
Eye Witness News
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ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia on Tuesday asked citizens to "avoid irregular routes," two days after a boat carrying mostly Ethiopian migrants sank off Yemen, killing at least 76 and leaving dozens missing. The International Organization for Migration...
AfDB Backs Ethiopia’s US$10 Billion Aviation Megaproject
News Ghana
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August 13, 2025
Ethiopia secured crucial momentum for its ambitious Bishoftu International Airport this week as the African Development Bank committed to arrange nearly $8 billion in financing. AfDB President Dr. Akinwumi Adesina and Ethiopian Airlines Chief...