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Hiko Tonosa, who is originally from Ethiopia, arrived in Ireland in 2017

Champion runner's joy at receiving Irish passport

World Refugee Day • 20 Jun

Fr Stephen Monaghan with some of the children who attend the school in Ambo

Irish priest in relief effort for Ethiopian school

Coronavirus • 11 Jun

Mozambique is generally seen as a smuggling corridor for migrants seeking to make their way to South Africa

64 found dead in freight container in Mozambique

News • 24 Mar

The €3.5 billion project has set the government of Ethiopia and Egypt at loggerheads since Ethiopia broke ground in 2011

Ethiopia says US 'undiplomatic' over Nile Dam project

World • 03 Mar

Swarms can travel up to 150 km a day and contain between 40-80 million locusts per square kilometre

African nations racing to control locust swarms

News Lens • 27 Feb

Australian national carrier Qantas became the latest airline to ground the 737NG

Boeing grounds 50 more planes over cracks

World • 31 Oct 19

Egypt and Sudan say that the Renaissance dam will reduce the flow of the Nile

Washington to host meeting on Ethiopia dam dispute

World • 30 Oct 19

At 43, Abiy Ahmed is the youngest head of government in Africa

Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize

World • 11 Oct 19

Government employees were given time off to participate

Ethiopia plants 350 million trees in one day

News Lens • 30 Jul 19

Prime Minister Ahmed Abiy said regional officials were in a meeting when the coup attempt occurred

Senior Ethiopian officials killed in coup attempt

World • 23 Jun 19

Mr Negasso was president between 1995 and 2001

Former Ethiopian president Negasso Gidada dead at 75

World • 27 Apr 19

Ethiopian women are still excepted to drop out of school, cook, clean and look after children

Ethiopia's fight for gender equality

World • 25 Apr 19

Chinese firms were involved in building the Addis Ababa-Adama Expressway in Tulu Dimtu

Ethiopia and the Chinese dream in Africa

World • 23 Apr 19

Investigators are trying to determine why the aircraft plunged into a field shortly after take-off

Ethiopia crash had 'similarities' with Indonesia crash

World • 17 Mar 19

People from over 30 countries were killed in the crash

Identifying Ethiopia crash victims may take six months

World • 16 Mar 19

Sunday's crash after take-off from Addis Ababa was the second such disaster involving Boeing's 737 MAX

France to examine Ethiopian Airlines' black boxes

World • 14 Mar 19

Governments around the world are grounding Boeing 737 Max aircraft or barring them from their airspace

US grounds Boeing 737 MAX amid growing safety concerns

World • 14 Mar 19

All 157 people on board the flight died in the crash

Black boxes recovered from crashed Ethiopian flight

World • 11 Mar 19

The region of Obock where boats set off for the Middle East

38 people dead as two boats sink off coast of Djibouti

World • 30 Jan 19

The ancient site at Labibela will go green for St Patrick's Day

Ethiopian UNESCO site to go green for St Patrick's Day

World • 11 Jan 19

Leo Varadkar met President Sahle-Work Zewde this morning

Taoiseach calls for deeper Europe-Africa links

Politics • 09 Jan 19

Irish troops are involved in an EU training mission in Mali (Pic: European External Action Service)

Taoiseach begins week-long visit to Mali and Ethiopia

Politics • 07 Jan 19

The crash happened on a flight between the eastern city of Dire Dawa and Bishoftu near the capital Addis Ababa (Pic: Google Maps)

18 killed in Ethiopian military helicopter crash

Ethiopia • 30 Aug 18

Ethiopian security forces intervene after the blast went off at the rally in Meskel Square

Senior police officer arrested over Ethiopian attack

World • 23 Jun 18

A woman and child at a camp for displaced people in the Kaxda district, on the outskirts of Mogadishu

Aid agencies warn east Africa on the brink of famine

World • 11 May 17

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