January 2021

Addis Getachew January 8, 2021 Six other key TPLF operatives were also arrested in an operation conducted by Ethiopian forces on a hideout in the rugged Kola Tembein area in the northnern Tigray region, an official from the East African nation’s military was quoted as saying. The public Ethiopian News Agency quoted Brig. Gen. Tesfaye

by Gregory Polek January 7, 2021, Boeing has agreed with the U.S. Department of Justice to pay more than $2.5 billion in penalties to resolve a criminal charge of conspiracy to defraud the Federal Aviation Administration’s Aircraft Evaluation Group (FAA AEG) in connection with its assessment of the 737 Max. Under the terms of a deferred

BY TOM GARDNER JANUARY 6, 2021, How Addis Ababa deals with ethnic violence in the region of Benishangul-Gumuz will determine the country’s future. On Dec. 22, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited the vast lowland territory of Metekel in Ethiopia’s far western region of Benishangul-Gumuz, the so-called homeland of five indigenous ethnic groups of which the most populous