Ethiopian Revenue and Custom Authority (ERCA), Large Tax payers Branch ordered Ethio-telecom to suspend any payment to ZTE. The order came through a letter written by the Large Tax Payer’s branch of ERCA to Ethio-telecom finance department. The letter stated that ZTE failed to pay tax of over One Billion Birr. After numerous attempts by […]

GUELPH — Guelph Police are asking the public for more information about the disappearance of a prominent member of the city’s Ethiopian community. Seble (Mimi) Dietrich, 39, was last seen leaving her home on Vancouver Drive sometime between 12 p.m. on July 10 and 6 p.m. on July 11. She was seen driving in her […]

No fewer than 45 Nigerian nationals are being detained by the Ethiopian authorities for alleged drugs trafficking and related offences, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. A top official of the Embassy of Nigeria in Addis Ababa, who preferred not be mentioned, told NAN that the suspected traffickers, including seven ladies, were arrested at […]

The head of the property administration office at the Addis Ketema sub city’s housing agency was charged of embezzlement of construction materials by the federal prosecutor. The embezzled property which was meant for the construction of condominiums in the sub city amounts to half a million birr. The charge document says that the suspect KebedeTerfa […]

Federal high court’s third criminal bench has sentenced a 23 year old young man to 21 years in prison for a murder of a 16 year old teenage girl. The charge document describes that the young man named Berihun Mebre has been sexually assaulting the teenage girl and killed her with knife for showing up […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police have identified the woman whose body was discovered in a pond near Kansas City International Airport on Monday as 21-year-old Husenet M. Yassin. Her cause of death has not yet been determined. The body was found Monday afternoon during a routine check by airport security. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s […]

HANGZHOU, July 22 (Xinhua) — An Ethiopian was sentenced to seven months in jail for trafficking khat to China, marking the first such case in the country, which classed the plant as an illegal drug this year. The verdict was handed down earlier this month by the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, capital of east […]

The defense attorneys of the charged bloggers and journalists have asked the court on July 18, 2014 for an inquiry into the constitution since the charge presented forbids the right for a bail which is constitutional. They added that a mere terrorism charges shouldn’t bar someone off a right to bail. The federal prosecutor in […]

The federal supreme sharia court’s deputy president Sheikh Aman Shifaw is arrested and charged suspected of corruption. As the charge document presented by the Federal Ethics and Anti Corruption Commission to the Federal High Court’s First Criminal Bench indicates the suspect is caught red handed receiving ten thousand birr bribe after demanding fifty thousand. W/o […]

The United States is deeply concerned by the Ethiopian Federal High Court’s July 18 decision to press charges against six bloggers and three independent journalists under the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation. We urge the Ethiopian government to ensure that the trial is fair, transparent, and in compliance with Ethiopia’s constitutional guarantees and international human rights obligations. We […]

A Lynnwood woman accused of throwing her 1-year-old nephew out a window earlier this month is now charged with assault. Snohomish County prosecutors want Beteha Kebede to remain held on $250,000 bail, saying that she is a danger to the community and a flight risk. Kebede, 38, has ties to Ethiopia.Kebede allegedly told police she […]

A lawyer in the Venezuelan envoy murder trial yesterday accused the Ethiopian and Namibian ambassadors of playing a role in the arrest of his client. Lawyer Katwa Kigen, who is representing the former first secretary of the Venezuelan Embassy Dwight Sagaray, said ambassadors Luise Gurbert and Juana Carlos insisted on having Sagaray charged with the […]

Garissa county commissioner Rashid Khator has warned illegal immigrants from Ethiopia against committing crimes in Kenya. Khator said the criminals are sent from Ethiopia as hired assassins. The criminals are part of the Oromo Liberation Front rebels, who oppose the national government. Last week, a rebel crossed into Kenya and killed a businessman in Garissa […]

AEUP and UDJ’s unity facilitating committee submitted a charge document to the federal first instant court at Arada on the National Information and Security Service (NISS) and federal police collaborative anti terrorism group on July 11, 2014. The charge document accused the detention on June 8, 2014 of UDJ’s Habtamu Ayalew and Daniel Shibeshi, Arena […]

SANA’A, July 9—Forty-four Ethiopians who have been held since Monday in Taiz governorate are currently awaiting deportation and are not seeking refugee status. Coast Guard spokesperson Major Hussein Al-Harazi confirmed the arrest and said the 44 Ethiopians were taken to Mocha Security Department. Colonel Saleh Alfani, the director of operations for the Coast Guard, told […]

KUWAIT CITY, July 11: The Criminal Investigation Department has arrested 20 Ethiopians from various parts of Hawalli for indulging in immoral activities, reports Al-Anba daily. The daily added at the time of arrest all those arrested were wearing indecent clothes. Meanwhile, police have arrested an unidentified Filipino masseur for possessing 80 grams of narcotic substance, […]