Addis Tatoo Shops Thrive as Old Meets New

26 August, 2009

Fortune - Welina Sissay, cannot remember when she got the scars but she remembers how. When she was a baby someone in her family took a knife to her back and made three, five-centimetre cuts down the middle. A cultural tradition for many Ethiopian girls in the countryside more >>

Ethiopian athletes go missing on trip to Britain

25 August, 2009

Telegraph.co.uk - Four Ethiopian athletes have gone missing during a visit to Britain for a major athletics event. more >>

Ethiopia: Tekezze dam starts generating POWER

24 August, 2009

Capital - The 2.8 billion birr Tekezze hydro electric power project starts trial power generation this week in the presence of the power utility’s officials. more >>

Diaspora must return home for fingerprints, RCuA

24 August, 2009

Capital - Owners of businesses in Ethiopian and living abroad have been told they must return to Addis Ababa to give their fingerprints the country's Revenue and Customs Authority's (RCuA). more >>

Search in Mediterranean for 73 migrants from Eritrea feared dead

22 August, 2009

ROME (AFP) – Italian coastguards searched the Mediterranean Sea on Friday for the bodies of 73 migrants from Eritrea feared dead from hunger and thirst while trying to reach Europe from North Africa. more >>

Commission awards Ethiopia-Eritrea war claims

19 August, 2009

THE HAGUE (AFP) – A panel tasked with settling claims from a border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea ordered the neighbouring nations Tuesday to pay each other tens of millions of dollars in compensation. more >>

Ethiopia’s Business Climate Worsening, Chamber of Commerce Says

19 August, 2009

(Bloomberg) -- Power outages, shortages of foreign exchange and limits on bank lending resulted in Ethiopia’s business climate deteriorating over the past four months, the chairman of the country’s largest business association said. more >>

Ethiopia's Teddy Afro plans come-back tour

18 August, 2009

Capital - The young, talented and recently free from prison, Tewodros Kassahun alias Teddy Afro is planning a tour around the world to thank his fans for their support during his imprisonment. more >>

Man's 25 years of struggle in Ethiopia

18 August, 2009

The BBC's Adam Mynott explains how Ethiopia's resettlement programmes have affected the life of one man, Aklog Adarge. more >>

Eritrea will accept Ethiopia war damages ruling

18 August, 2009

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Eritrea said Tuesday it will accept "without equivocation" an international tribunal's decision on compensations Asmara and arch-foe Ethiopia are set to pay each other for damages sustained during their 1998-2000 war. more >>

Pop star Teddy Afro freed from jail in Ethiopia

13 August, 2009

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's most popular singer, Teddy Afro, was freed early from prison on Thursday after serving 18 months of a two-year sentence for hit-and-run manslaughter. more >>

Ethiopia celebrates World Breastfeeding Week for the first time

08 August, 2009

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (UNICEF) – World Breastfeeding Week was celebrated in Ethiopia for the first time this year. more >>

Clinton warns Eritrea, backs Somali leader

06 August, 2009

NAIROBI (AFP) – US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday threw her support behind Somalia's embattled president and warned Eritrea to stop sponsoring insurgents turning the country into a terror hub. more >>

Ethiopia says agreement reached on most points of package of use of Nile water

05 August, 2009

People's Daily Online - The 17th annual meeting of the Nile council of ministers, held late last month in Egypt's Alexandria city, has reached agreement on most points of the package of the Nile Basin Initiatives (NBI) on the fair and equitable use of the transboundary rivers, said an Ethiopian cabinet minister on Tuesday. more >>

Canada under pressure to cut aid to Ethiopia

04 August, 2009

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada's government should consider curbing foreign aid to Ethiopia to express its unhappiness over the case of a Canadian jailed for life in the African country, a lawyer for the man said on Tuesday. more >>

250 birr housing allowance for city's teachers

03 August, 2009

Capital - The Addis Ababa City Administration has approved a 50 million birr budget to fund various benefit schemes aimed at encouraging teachers working in the city's state schools. more >>

Ethiopia jails Canadian ONLF rebel for life

03 August, 2009

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court jailed a Canadian for life on Monday after he was convicted of membership of a rebel group fighting for independence for an ethnically Somali part of the country. more >>