title: 2014 in Ethiopia
text: # 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.
  