Residents of Yeka Sub city, where one of the few surviving forests in Addis Ababa has been preserved, have vehemently expressed their frustrations over the City Administration, as a real estate developer began to clear down 40,000 square meters of woodland, warning dozens of evictions, The Reporter has learnt.  

Neway Gebreab, the longest serving economic advisor to two former prime ministers, Meles Zenawi and Hailemariam Dessalegn, passed away on Monday.

A growing number of Ethiopian and International citizens are becoming victims of a drug mule allegedly orchestrated by Nigerian drug-lords operating within Ethiopia. 

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) headquartered at the African Union (AU) said the continent is on a high alert to deter the potential arrival of covid-19, The Reporter has learnt. The explosive spread of Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak has infected more than 75,000 people and killed more than 2,000.

Education Cannot Wait (ECW) is allocating USD 165 million, a three year initiative to help educate children affected by war and conflicts across Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Embassy in China has written a letter to the Ethiopian Students Union in Wuhan, informing them of the fact that they cannot be evacuated and repatriated back to Ethiopia due to lack of capacity to quarantine them once brought home.

Billionaire philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates in their 2020 Annual Letter, a review of the foundation’s activities every year, which they have released this week, has celebrated the progress made over the past two decades in alleviating poverty and tackling health issues across the world, where Ethiopia was cited as most progressive, The Reporter has learnt.  

There are now hundreds of African students stranded and under lockdown in Wuhan, in China and face the risks associated with corona-virus epidemic with little support afforded to them from their home nation.

Lawmakers have urged the government to control the importation of food items and medicine via the eastern border of the country in what they call is posing public health hazard.

As dozens of major airlines around the world cancel flights to China as a precaution over the outbreak of coronavirus, Ethiopian Airlines has refused to follow suit. This comes as the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the virus as a “global health emergency.”