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Addis Ababa, March 21, 2020 (FBC) -The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors on Thursday approved $500 million in grant and credit in continued support of Ethiopia’s homegrown reform…

Addis Ababa, March 21, 2020 (FBC) -The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) yesterday handed over the second of the sixth aircrafts to help Ethiopia fight desert…

Addis Ababa, March 20, 2020 (FBC) –Ethiopian airlines (Ethiopian) has suspended flights to more than 30 countries due to coronavirus (COVID-19), effective from today. Prime Minister Dr…

Addis Ababa, March 20, 2020 (FBC) -Observing all sanitizing procedures set by WHO to prevent the spread of the coronavirus President Sahle-Work Zewde paid her last respects to Dr. Catherine…

Addis Ababa, March 20, 2020 (FBC) -The African Union (AU) should fulfil its responsibility in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations by ensuring that the union is not…

Addis Ababa, March 20, 2020 (FBC) - Ethiopia has confirmed three new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total number to nine. An 85 year-old Ethiopian, 44 year-old Japanese,…

Addis Ababa, March 20, 20 20(FBC) -Japan has expressed its solidarity with Ethiopia in the fight against Coronavirus (COVID-19). In a statement issued yesterday, Japan’s Ambassador to…

Addis Ababa, March 19, 2020 (FBC) –The Office of the Prime Minister said that the coronavirus (COVID-19) “is not related to any country or nationality.” The remark came following reports…

Addis Ababa, March 19, 2020 (FBC) – The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has donated 10 million birr to the Ministry of Health to fight coronavirus (COVID-19). Ethiopia now has six…

Addis Ababa, March 19, 2020 (FBC) - Dr Catherine Hamlin, co-founder of Catherine Hamlin Fistula Foundation, has passed away peacefully at her home in Addis Ababa yesterday. She was 96.…