Ethiopia 2022 Year in Review

Jan 14, 2022: UN human rights office said at least 108 civilians have reportedly been killed in Tigray this year in airstrikes

Jan 23, 2022: A ceremony held to inaugurate the renovated Addis Ababa Municipality

Jan 23, 2022: Gemuchu Dida and Yalemzerf Yehualaw win Great Ethiopian Run International held in Addis Ababa.

Jan 26, 2022: Ethiopia's cabinet lifted a six-month state of emergency ahead of its expiration

Jan 29, 2022: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of arrived Abu Dhabi and met with Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan

Feb 2022: Ethiopia launched Ethiopian Investment Holdings, aimed at attracting investment for state-owned companies and assets

Feb 1, 2022: Ethiopian Airlines carried out its first official flight with Boeing Co.’s 737 Max since a deadly crash in March 2019

Feb 4, 2022: World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus served as a torchbearer in the last leg of the Olympic relay in Beijing

Feb 13, 2022: Commercial Bank of Ethiopia inaugurated its new headquarters. The tallest building, not just in the country, but also in the rest of East Africa, stands at 209 meters high.

Feb 15, 2022: Ethiopia’s parliament voted for an early end to a six-month state of emergency that was declared the previous November

Feb 20, 2022: One of the 13 turbines of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam started power generation

Feb 21, 2022: Ethiopia’s parliament announced the formation of an 11-member National Dialogue Commission. The panel has been tasked with presenting proposals aimed at ending simmering tensions between the nation’s ethnic and political groups

Mar 23, 2022: Ethiopian Airlines announces resignation of CEO Tewolde Gebremariam over health issues. Mesfin Tasew Bekele was named as his successor 

Mar 24, 2022: Ethiopia's government declared an immediate, unilateral trMayuce in its conflict with Tigrayan forces to allow aid into the northern province

May 13, 2022: Ethiopia's media regulator announced it is revoking the press credentials for The Economist magazine’s correspondent in the country, Tom Gardner, after accusing him of breaching “professional ethics” and the “rules and regulations of the country”.

May 16, 2022: Brigadier General Tefera Mamo arrested a day after criticizing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government 

May 23, 2022: Local state media announced the arrest of more than 4,000 people in the northern Amhara region. 

May 24, 2022: World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus was confirmed by the U.N. health agency’s member countries for a second five-year term. 

Jun 9, 2022: Ethiopia defeated Egypt 2-0 in Africa Cup of Nations qualifier 

Jun 12, 2022: Singer Dawit Nega passed away after an unexpected illness

Jun 19, 2022: More than 200 ethnic Amhara were killed in an attack in Oromia region

Jun 27, 2022: Sudan accuses Ethiopia of capturing and killing its soldiers. Sudan followed up by firing artillery and an air strike

Jul 16, 2022: Letesenbet Gidey won gold in the women’s 10,000 at World Athletics Championships

Jul 18, 2022: Gotytom Gebreslase set a new record for the woman's marathon at World Athletics Championships finishing in 2 hours, 18 minutes and 11 seconds

Jul 20, 2022: Al-Shabab militants who crossed into eastern Ethiopia. In the coming days, clashes with security forces left hunders killed 

Jul 26, 2022: Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov arrived in Addis Ababa, in pursuit of  strengthening Moscow's ties with Ethiopia

Aug 11, 2020: Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) began electricity generation from a second turbine

August 16, 2022:  Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's second term as World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General began

Aug 24, 2022 - Fighting between Tigrayan forces and government forces erupts around the town of Kobo, ending a months-long ceasefire.

Sep 25, 2022: Tigist Assefa won the women’s BMW Berlin Marathon. She is the course record holder and also the third-fastest marathon runner in history. Tigist finished the distance in 2:15: 37 hours.

Sept 28, 2022: Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud in Addis Ababa for a two-day visit

Oct 4, 2022: Ethiopia’s Science and Art Museum inaugurated 

Oct 15, 2022: Sudan's de-factor leader General Abdel Fattah Burhan visited Ethiopia and met with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed

Oct 16, 2022: Almaz Ayana won the Amsterdam Marathon and set a course record time of 2:17.19. 

Nov 2, 2022: Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels agree ceasefire ending two-year war

Nov 6, 2022: Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Egypt to attend the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP27).