By Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 30/2021 – The Ethiopian Media Authority (EMA), the main regulatory body of broadcast media in Ethiopia, has ordered Ethiopian broadcasters that transmit programs from foreign media outlets to terminate doing so effective October 29. In a statement issued on October 29, Mohammed Idriss, …

Addis Standard Staff Addis Abeba, October 27/2021 – Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho) and House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Michael McCaul (R-Texas), issued a statement expressing their “hope that the Ethiopian government can correct course and avert a revocation of AGOA benefits.” The statement came …

The following is excerpts from telephonic press briefing with Bryan Hunt, Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Africa and the Sudans, and Erik Woodhouse, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions on the Biden-⁠Harris Administration actions in response to the ongoing crisis in Northern Ethiopia held on September …