Federal Police conducted another round of arrests later this week, it was learnt.

Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegne dismissed his Justice Minister on Friday. The reason for the dismissal of Justice Minister Berhan Hailu is said to be poor performance, according to unofficial sources.

Ethiopian police detained twelve individuals today, according to the press statement from the Federal Anti-Corruption Commission. Melaku Fanta, Director General of the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority with the rank of a Minister is among the detainee.

Ethiopia's western region, Gambella, changed its long-serving President Umod Ubong, it was learnt. Umod Ubong, ethnic-Anuak, held the top post for the last 13 years. He doubled as chairman of the region's ruling party – Gambella Peoples' Democratic Movement (GPDM) – since September 2005.

The death of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in August 2012 marked the end of an era in contemporary Ethiopian politics. After defeating the brutal Derg regime in 1991, Meles headed the powerful ruling party that led the country of more than 80 million through a massive transformation. But it is a mistake to think of his tenure as a period of one-man rule or his death as creating either a political vacuum or an opportunity for liberal reform, as power, authority and resources never rested in Meles' hands alone.

The Late Prime Minster Meles Zenawi was both present and absent at the two-yearly Congress of the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) held last week in Bahir Dare City, a few kilometers away from the source of Nile.

The active politician is a creator, an initiator; but he neither creates from nothing nor does he move in the turbid void of his own desires and dreams. He bases himself on effective reality… applies one's will to the creation of a new equilibrium, [and] does so in order to dominate and transcend it. What 'ought to be' is therefore concrete; indeed it is the only realistic and historicist interpretation of reality, it alone is history in the making and philosophy in the making, it alone is politics.

The leadership of a faction of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel group has arrived in Addis Ababa seeking to resume stalled peace talks with the central government.

Over the past decade, the Ethiopian economy has been growing at twice the rate of the Africa region, averaging, 10.6 percent GDP growth per year between 2004 and 2011 compared to 5.2 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report by the World Bank.

PM Hailemariam just nominated to the parliament two Deputy Prime Ministers and three Ministers. Since Ato Demeke Mekonnen was elected to be Deputy PM few months back, the country in total will have three Deputy Prime-ministers.