2024 in Ethiopia

The following is a list of events predicted and scheduled to take place in the year 2024 in Ethiopia.

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Decades:	2000s 2010s 2020s
See also:	Other events of 2024 Timeline of Ethiopian history

• President: Sahle-Work Zewde
• Prime Minister: Abiy Ahmed

• War in Amhara^{[1][verification needed][2][3][4][5][verification needed]}
• OLA insurgency
• Gambela conflict^[6][7]
• House demolition^{[8][9][10][11][12][verification needed]}
• Detention and arbitrary arrest
• Educational crisis in Ethiopia since 2020
• Addis Ababa City Corridor Project

• 1 January –
  • Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use 20 kilometers of coastline, including the port of Berbera, in exchange for eventual recognition of the Somaliland Declaration of Independence, which would make it the first country to do so.^[13]
  • Ethiopia formally joins the BRICS group.^[14]

• 23 February – An airstrike kills at least 15 people and wounds over 20 more in North Shewa. Many of the victims were fleeing clashes between Fano and the Ethiopian government.^[15]

• 1 March – Heavy fighting between the Fano militia and the federal government breaks out in Bahir Dar, the capital of Amhara Region.^[16]
• 15 March – The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) encounters a systematic glitch on its service involving the withdrawal of more than 40 million dollars. CBE officials suspect that the glitch was caused by economic and political reasons^[17] and the money was easily transferred to students in Dilla and Jimma University.^[18]

• 10 April — Bate Urgessa, a prominent OLF politician and critic of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, is found shot dead in Meki, East Shewa Zone in Oromia Region, leading to the arrest of 13 suspects and causing public outrage and international demands for an investigation.^[19]
• 12 April — A shootout in Addis Ababa between security forces and Fano members near Millennium Hall leaves one civilian and two Fano members dead and injures two police officers. The police claim the group was intercepted while planning a terrorist attack, with one member killed, another injured and arrested, and the leader fatally wounded.^[20]
• 24 April — Seven people are killed after a building collapses on a nearby house in Addis Ababa.^[21]

• 9 July – Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed meets in Port Sudan with Sudanese Transitional Sovereignty Council leader and armed forces commander Abdel Fattah al-Burhan to seek an end to the Sudanese Civil War.^[22]
• 17 July – Nine police officers are killed in an attack on a police station near the Kumer refugee camp in Amhara Region.^[23]
• 21–22 July – 2024 Gofa landslides: At least 257 people are killed in two landslides caused by heavy rains that strike two villages in Gofa Zuria, South Ethiopia Regional State.^[24][25]
• 22 July – Fano's Shewan Chief commander Colonel Asegid Mekonnen surrenders to the Ethiopian security forces.^[26][27]
• 27 July – A boat carrying funeral goers sinks along the Tekeze River in Amhara Region, killing 19 of 26 passengers.^[28]
• 29 July – The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) imposes a flexible exchange rate policy for the Ethiopian birr as part of economic reforms recommended by the International Monetary Fund.^[29]

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