Ethiopia News » Oromia News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Ethiopia embraces big projects but escalates regional tensions by seeking more access to the sea
Ethiopia’s leader loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the landlocked ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Oromia Bank selects CR2’s BankWorld to Advance their Digital Banking Transformation Strategy in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oromia Bank (www.oromiabank.com) has selected CR2 (www.CR2.com), one of the world’s leading software vendors in the digital banking and payments market, to ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Ethiopia's conflict-hit Oromia region struggles for healthcare
In Ethiopia's conflict-affected Oromia region, residents of remote villages are slowly regaining access to healthcare after nearly two years of disruption. The Gunfi Primary Health Center in the West ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Ethiopia is in the midst of a kidnapping epidemic
The road from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to the town of Debark in the northern highlands is one of the country’s busiest thoroughfares. These days it is also among the most dangerous. In ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Ethiopia: Rebels kill 48 in Oromia region, says rights agency
The ambush by the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), which is designated a terrorist organisation by Addis Ababa, occurred last week in the North Shewa district west of the capital, the Ethiopian Human ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Ethiopia's tourism renaissance: Bridging history, culture and economic transformation
By Yordanos D. Few countries can claim to tell the story of humanity itself. Ethiopia can. From the fossilized remains of some of the earliest human ancestors to ancient kingdoms that once stood among ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Africa’s tiger economy is shot
To catch a glimpse of Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, visitors could book a table at a swanky new restaurant in Addis Ababa, the capital. Marcus Addis, the eponymous joint by Marcus ...
News Ethiopia » Oromia » Economy: Rebel leader defending Ethiopia's ethnic Oromia says 'war is not against the people'
Oromia is Ethiopia’s country’s biggest state, with 35% of the population and the Federal Republic’s capital, Addis Ababa. But according to Jaal Marroo, the leader of the Oromo Liberation Army, ...