Ethiopia’s parliament has approved a $738m loan to South Sudan to build its share of a 220km cross-border highway aimed at improving trade between the countries, Addis Insights reports. The…

Ethiopia has doubled its cement-making capacity with a mega-factory in the Amhara region in the north of the country, Addis Insight reports. The $600m Lemi National Cement Factory will produce…

Ethiopia has agreed a deal with a Dubai renewables developer AMEA to develop the Horn of Africa’s biggest wind farm. The letter-of-award was signed by Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia’s finance minister,…

The UK’s Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) and Beirut-headquartered consultant Dar Al-Handasah have won a design consultancy contract for Africa’s largest airport, to be located south of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa…

Africa’s biggest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has opened its bigger domestic terminal at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport after a $50m expansion. The project doubled the terminal’s size to 25,750 sq…

Six years after it entered service, officials from Ethiopia and Djibouti have taken over the management of the China-funded 752km railway Addis Ababa to Djibouti’s port on the Indian Ocean.…

Africa’s largest carrier, Ethiopian Airlines, has opened its terminal at Gode Ugaas Miraad Airport near the border with Somalia.  After three years in construction, Ethiopia’s prime minister Abiy Ahmed cut…

Ethiopia launched its bid to be a player in the global vaccines market last week when its health minister Lia Tadesse laid the foundation stone for a $70m vaccine factory…

Egypt has declared the latest round of talks with Ethiopia over the latter’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on a tributary of the Nile River to be over without agreement.…

The African Development Bank (AfDB) has withdrawn all its international staff from Ethiopia after two of its employees were arrested, physically assaulted, and detained for hours by security forces without…

Dubai renewables developer AMEA Power has signed a deal with the Ethiopian finance ministry to invest in an 18,000-hectare wind farm in the Horn of Africa region. Set to cost…

Ethiopia has launched a $523m project to improve water treatment and provision in 23 cities.

The governments of South Korea and Ethiopia opened the “Textile Techno Park” at the weekend, the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation reports. The subject of a memorandum of understanding signed back in…

The Civil Engineering Construction Corporation of China (CCECC) has agreed to build a “centre of excellence” in Addis Ababa to help train Ethiopian electrical engineers. The facility would be for…

Kenya has signed an agreement with Ethiopia to build a 3,000km standard gauge railway network between its newly completed Lamu Port and Addis Ababa, the East Africannews site reports.   Work…

The International Development Association (IDA) will lend Ethiopia $720m to improve road travel between Addis Ababa and Djibouti. The IDA is the division of the World Bank that deals with…

Ethiopia said Friday that its Grand Renaissance Dam on the Nile is 90% complete 12 years after work began, the Middle East Monitor reports. Faqrati Tamru, the vice-chair of the…

Some $60m is required to repair 23 of 40 trains operating on Addis Ababa’s Chinese-built light rail system, a city transport official told Ethiopian news site The Reporter. Mitku Asmare,…