The trouble with Ethiopian politics Africa Review

AFP RIO DE JANEIRO -- Ethiopian Almaz Ayana smashed one of the longest-held records in athletics Friday to win the 10,000 meters as the Olympic track and field competition got off to an electrifying start. Ayana, 24, pulled away from the leading ...

[Ethiopian Herald] The Oromia Athletics Federation said the Irrecha Great Run participating 50,000 people would be held on the eve of Irecha, the Oromo people thanks giving

The Ethiopian athletics legends such as Haile Gebre-Selassie, Gezahegn Abera, Gebre-Egziabher Gebre-Mariam and former national coach Tolosa Kotu expressed disappointment the way the Ethiopiapian Olympic Committee (EOC) and Ethiopian Athletics ...

The leaders of the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF), who have been blamed for the country's mediocre performance at the just ended Rio Olympic Games, have also been asked to resign. On Friday, the Ethiopian Athletes Interim Committee ...

The Ethiopian Karate Federation said that it is offering capacity building training for coaches and athletes in the sport discipline with the aim of expanding Karate across the nation. Close to 200 athletes and coaches are attending the training ...

Losing a shoe won't keep Etenesh Diro from steeplechase final Ethiopia's Etenesh Diro got tangled up with two other runners in Saturday's 3,000m women's Olympic steeplechase and stopped to tear off her damaged right shoe and sock. For precious ...

Two time Olympic gold winner and four time gold winner in the World Championships, retired Ethiopian long-distance track and road running athlete Haile Gebrselassie is seen at the finish line of the first ever Dakar International Marathon, in Dakar ...

IAAF President Sebastian Coe attends a news conference after the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) council meeting in Vienna, Austria, June 17, 2016. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger By Mitch Phillips | RIO DE JANEIRO RIO DE ...

Bekele lashes out at federation after Rio omission ‘I'm deeply disappointed and sad. I have long overcome my Achilles tendon injury and I was ready for the challenge’ IMAGE: Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia reacts. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters. Triple Olympic gold medal winner Kenenisa Bekele said he was bitterly disappointed to be left out of Ethiopia's team for the Rio Olympics and blamed members of the country's athletics federation he said knew nothing of the sport. "I'm ...