2024 in Ethiopia

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

Ongoing

• War in Amhara^{[1][verification needed][2][3][4][5][verification needed]}
• Unrest in Gambela^[6][7]
• Amhara genocide
• Demolitions of civilian houses, religious and historical cites in Addis Ababa, killings, and bodily Injury.^{[8][9][10][11][12][verification needed]}
• Detention and arbitrary arrest
• Severe fertilizer shortage and agricultural crisis in Amhara
• Ethnic violence in Konso
• Ethnic violence against Amaro Koore
• Benishangul-Gumuz conflict
• OLA insurgency
• Denial of the Gurage and Wolayta ethnic groups from forming regional statehood.^[13]
• COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia
• Educational crisis in Ethiopia since 2020

January

• 1 January –
  • Ethiopia announces an agreement with Somaliland to use 20 km 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.^[14]
  • Ethiopia formally joins the BRICS group.^[15]

February

• 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.^[16]

March

• 1 March – Heavy fighting between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government breaks out in Bahir Dar, the capital of Amhara Region.^[17]
• 15 March – The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) encounters a systematic glitch on its service involving withdrawal of large amount of money more than 40 million dollars. CBE officials suspect that the glitch was caused by economic and political reasons^[18] and the money was easily transferred to students reported in Dilla and Jimma University.^[19]

April

• 10 April — Bate Urgessa, a prominent OLF politician and active critic of Abiy Ahmed was found shot dead in Meki, East Shewa Zone in Oromia Region. In aftermath, the Oromia police said 13 suspects were arrested over his death. His death caused public outrage and from OLF members as well as the United States, United Kingdom and European Union called for open investigation on the assassination.^[20]
• 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.^[21]
• 24 April — Seven people are killed after a building collapses on a nearby house in Addis Ababa.^[22]