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09 May, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia has launched a campaign to brand and market its coffee after ending a long trademark dispute with US coffee giant Starbucks last year, an official statement said Thursday. more >>
08 May, 2008
Organisers of the Doha Super Grand Prix have announced that Ethiopian athletes pulled out of the meet because of political tension between the two countries. more >>
08 May, 2008
By Catherine Hickley
(Bloomberg) -- A team of archaeologists from the University of Hamburg said they discovered the Queen of Sheba's palace and an altar that may have once held the Ark of the Covenant in Axum, Ethiopia. more >>
07 May, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean opposition groups meeting in Ethiopia on Wednesday said they had agreed to join forces and launch a popular uprising in their Red Sea state. more >>
By EDITH M. LEDERER, Associated Press Writer
07 May, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - The tiny port nation of Djibouti, a key U.S. ally in the Horn of Africa, has urged the U.N. Security Council to take immediate action to prevent a conflict with its northern neighbor Eritrea. more >>
07 May, 2008
afrol News - Authorities in Somalia's semi-autonomous state of Puntland have been warned to "bear sole responsibility for the consequences" of entering into a "secret agreement with the Ethiopian regime to transfer private citizens from Ogaden and any ONLF (Ogaden National Liberation Front) officials who enter Puntland to Ethiopian security officials." more >>
07 May, 2008
PARIS - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed said Monday that six pirates in French custody for allegedly holding the crew of a yacht hostage are likely from his home region in the Horn of Africa country. more >>
06 May, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - The Government of Ethiopia categorically rejects the allegations of Amnesty International that Ethiopian troops in Somalia have killed people by slitting their throats “like goats”, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) said. more >>
05 May, 2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Farmers in Ethiopia are better off now than they were four years ago, in part due to better-than-average rains and rising grain prices globally. But there's another reason: Africa's largest beneficiary of foreign aid has shifted from food aid to cash assistance. more >>
04 May, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia's world record holder Kenenisa Bekele was forced to fight all the way before retaining his African 5,000 metre title on Sunday at the African athletics championships. more >>
04 May, 2008
Ethiopian distance running legend Haile Gebrselassie has just received a honorary degree from Leeds Metropolitan University for his outstanding contribution to the sport. more >>
04 May, 2008
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces have arrested 100 Eritrean migrants near a southern coastal resort who said they were heading to Israel in search of work, a security official said on Wednesday. more >>
04 May, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Double world record holder Kenenisa Bekele has accepted to run in Sunday's 5,000 metres final at the African athletics championships, Ethiopian state media said on Saturday. more >>
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