National Reconciliation Commission, and Identity and Administrative Boundary Commission to be established, seemingly as conflict mitigation measures but Parliament is yet to approve it. borkena November 16,2017 The council of ministers discussed and approved draft bill to establish National Truth and Reconciliation Commission which is sent to House of Peoples Representatives for approval, according to […]
borkena November 15,2018 Ethiopian Athletics Federation executive committee elected Derartu Tulu as president of Ethiopian Athletics Federation in an emergency meeting held yesterday. Derartu, who is Africa’s first women and first Ethiopian Olympic Champion in 10,000 meters at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, has been serving the federation as vice-president since November 2017. Her election […]
borkena November 15,2018 Former Deputy Chief of National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), Yared Zerihun, is arrested earlier today as Ethiopian government intensifies hunting down what it calls criminals implicated in embezzlement of public resources and egregious human rights violations. Yared was arrested in Koket hotel where he was staying in the town of Dukem, […]
borkena November 14,2018 General Kinfe Dagnaw, former director of state owned METEC business empire, appeared in a Federal court in the capital Addis Ababa today in connection with corruption charges. His brother Isayas Dagnaw, who was a senior management in the state owned Ethio-telecom until he was sacked in April of this year, has also […]