Sahle-Work Zewde made history Thursday by becoming the first female head of state in modern Ethiopia. The experienced diplomat was elected unanimously by Ethiopia’s Federal Parliamentary Assembly and ...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in ...

Ethiopia made history on Thursday when its parliament named the nation’s first-ever woman president and currently Africa’s only serving female head of state: Sahle-Work Zewde, a veteran diplomat and ...

The Ethiopia Economic Opportunities Program helped introduce groundbreaking legislation giving refugees and asylum seekers the right to work for the first time in the country's history. The 2019 ...

Ethiopia appointed Sahle-Work Zewde as its first female president on Thursday, also making the career diplomat the only serving female head of state in Africa. Although the role is largely ceremonial, ...

When Ethiopian police called in Habtamu Assefa Seme to give fingerprints seven years ago, he took the hint. "In my country, the highest criminals have to give fingerprints," Seme said. "They prepared ...

It was while he was co-leading an interim of 25 students to Ethiopia in 2010 that geography professor Johnathan Bascom had a vision for a Fulbright project in that country. Bascom saw evidence of ...

The day he left Ethiopia in June, after a 10-month sabbatical in that country, geography professor Johnathan Bascom served as the external examiner for a dissertation at a the University of Addis ...

ADDIS ABABA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A ban on Eritrean refugees working in Ethiopia is hampering efforts to reduce illegal “secondary” migration, with tens of thousands risking violence and ...

Ethiopia's parliament has made Sahle-Work Zewde the country's first female president. And while the role is largely ceremonial, her appointment carries power in what it signifies. Sahle-Work, an ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia-- Ethiopian lawmakers on Thursday unanimously elected the country's first female president, days after approving one of the world's few "gender-balanced" Cabinets. Seasoned ...

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's parliament has approved senior diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde as the country's first female president, proceedings on state television showed, cementing another shift in the ...