June 2020

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) –Ethiopia reported 170 new cases of the coronavirus in the last one day, brings the total number of confirmed cases to 2,506. The new cases were…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) -Ethiopia will start to produce 5.5 million face masks per day to ease the growing demand resulted from increase in new cases of the COVID-19 pandemic.…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) - Cases are spiking in parts of California and the southwest of the US, with 21 states reporting weekly increases in new cases. It could lead authorities…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) - The African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia to finance a feasibility study for construction of a standard-gauge…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) –The House of Federation (HoF), in its second regular session held today, approved a resolution allowing federal and regional state councils to continue…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) – Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt yesterday held a tripartite meeting on the filling and operation of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The meeting…

Addis Ababa, June 10, 2020 (FBC) -President Sahle-Work Zewde bid farewell to the outgoing ambassador of the Netherlands to Ethiopia. The President thanked the ambassador for his service…

Addis Ababa, June 9, 2020 (FBC) – Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed has expressed condolences over the death of Burundi President Pirre Nkurunziza today. “I would like to express my…

Addis Ababa, June 9, 2020 (FBC) – Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize Insititute has stated that members of it committee stand firmly behind their decision of last year to award the Nobel Peace…

Addis Ababa, June 9, 2020 (FBC) – Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza, aged 55, has died after suffering a cardiac arrest, the government says. He was admitted to hospital on Saturday…