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 >>
25 August, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk - Four Ethiopian athletes have gone missing during a visit to Britain for a major athletics event. more >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
18 August, 2009
The BBC's Adam Mynott explains how Ethiopia's resettlement programmes have affected the life of one man, Aklog Adarge. more >>
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 >>
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 >>
08 August, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (UNICEF) – World Breastfeeding Week was celebrated in Ethiopia for the first time this year. more >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>