Lebanon recovers crashed Ethiopian jet's data box
Lebanon's Minister of Public
Works and Transport Ghazi Aridi
show underwater photographs of
parts of the crashed Ethiopian
airlines plane during a news
conference in Beirut February 6,
2010
Ethiopia Airlines jet 'black box'
retrieved in Lebanon BBC News
07 February, 2010
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Search teams have retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people aboard. more >>
Ethiopia gets Microsoft software in Amharic
US software giant Microsoft has
launched Windows Vista in
Amharic...
07 February, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – US software giant Microsoft has launched Windows Vista in Amharic, the first operating system in the national language of Ethiopia, the official news agency said Saturday. more >>
Ethiopia law forces journalists to reveal sources
07 February, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's new anti-terror law strips journalists of the right to protect the identity of their sources, a top official said in a statement carried Saturday by the national news agency ENA. more >>
Ethiopian-flagged vessel thwarts pirate attack
04 February, 2010
(CNN) -- An Ethiopian-flagged vessel fought off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden earlier this week, the multi-national anti-piracy task force said Thursday. more >>
Ethiopia Expects Economy to Expand by 10.1% This Year
04 February, 2010
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s economy is expected to grow 10.1 percent in the year to July 7, from 9.9 percent the previous year, a finance ministry official said. more >>
US envoy pledges to press Ethiopia on rights
03 February, 2010
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human rights, free political prisoners and make upcoming elections fair. more >>
Kenya, Ethiopia to inter-connect Power Grids
03 February, 2010
KBC - President Mwai Kibaki, who is attending the 14th AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Tuesday met and held talks with the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi. more >>
Ethiopian journalist jailed for criticising leader
03 February, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – An Ethiopian journalist has been jailed for a year for criticising the prime minister, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. more >>
British investigators say Ethiopian Airlines plane crash 'similar' to Kenya Airways plane disaster
31 January, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk - British aviation lawyers have launched their own investigation into last week's Ethiopian airliner crash and are examining similarities with Kenya Airways disaster less than three years ago more >>
Gaddafi loses job as African Union head
31 January, 2010
Euronews - The African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia has got off to bad start for Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi. He has failed in his attempt to stay on as chairman of the bloc for another year after African leaders chose Malawi’s president to succeed him. more >>
Army says black boxes located from Ethiopian crash
28 January, 2010
BEIRUT (AP) – International ships searching along Lebanon's coast detected signals from the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines jet late Wednesday as DNA tests helped identify several victims, including two children whose remains were pulled from the sea. more >>
Questions over Ethiopian jet's path before crash
26 January, 2010
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The pilot of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed off the Lebanese coast did not respond to a request to change direction before contact was cut, the Lebanese transport minister said on Tuesday. more >>
Ethiopian jet crash deaths rise as 34 bodies found
25 January, 2010
BEIRUT (AP) – An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people caught fire and crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Beirut early Monday, setting off a frantic search as passenger seats, baby sandals and other debris washed ashore. more >>
Ethiopian airliner crashes on takeoff in Lebanon
25 January, 2010
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – An Ethiopian airliner transporting 92 passengers and crew crashed in stormy weather following takeoff in Lebanon early Monday, plunging into the Mediterranean sea, an airport official told AFP. more >>
Ethiopia inflation soars to 7.1 pct y/y in Dec
25 January, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation rose to 7.1 percent in December from 0.6 percent in November on the back of rising fuel, food and construction material prices, the statistics office said on Friday. more >>
