2014 in Ethiopia

Incumbents

• President: Mulatu Teshome
• Prime Minister: Hailemariam Desalegn

  Events

February

• February 17 - Ethiopian Airlines Flight 702 between Addis Ababa and Rome is diverted to land at Geneva in an attempted hijacking by the co-pilot who claims to be seeking political asylum.

  April

• April 16 - Gunmen ambush a bus killing nine people and wounding six others in western Ethiopia near the Sudanese border.

  May

• May 2 - At least nine students are killed in protests in Oromia Region.

  November

• November 4 - In Johannesburg, Angolan journalist and human rights campaigner Rafael Marques says the African Union should move its headquarters out of Ethiopia because of concerns about freedom of expression there.

  December

• December 6 - At least 70 drown when a migrant boat from Ethiopia sinks off the Red Sea coast of Yemen.