2014 in Ethiopia
# 2014 in Ethiopia

The following lists events that happened during 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.
