2015 in Ethiopia

Incumbents

• Prime Minister: Hailemariam Desalegn
• President: Mulatu Teshome

Events

Ongoing

• Oromo protests

February

• 1 February – Testing of the Addis Ababa Light Rail, the first light railway in Sub-Saharan Africa, begins.

March

• 5 March – 2015 African Junior Athletics Championships begin in Addis Ababa.

April

• 19 April – 2015 Islamic State killing of Christian migrants in Libya: Islamic State in Libya Province releases beheading video of approximately 30 Ethiopian Christian immigrants, resulting in broader outrage and condemnation in Ethiopia.

May

• 24 May – Voters go to the polls to vote in the general elections with the ruling party facing no viable opposition.

September

• 20 September – First line of the Addis Ababa Light Rail opens.

October

• 10 October – The Gilgel Gibe III Dam begins to generate power.

November

• 21 November – The 2015 CECAFA Cup, hosted in Addis Ababa, begins.

Deaths

• 12 September – Seble Tefera, 39, actress, car crash.