By Tsegaye Tadesse
30 August, 2007
BISHOFTU, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopian farmer Fekadu Asfaw stood defiantly before an angry veterinarian, having just beaten his four severely malnourished donkeys. more >>
30 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia will try to remove tens of thousands of beggars from the streets of Addis Ababa to create a more "conducive" atmosphere for coming Millennium celebrations, city officials said on Thursday. more >>
30 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A team of U.N. aid officials and human rights investigators arrived in Ethiopia's Ogaden region on Thursday to assess claims of abuses made by separatist rebels facing a military crackdown. more >>
30 August, 2007
Ethiopia's decision to expel six of nine Norwegian diplomats from the country means Ethiopia will lose around NOK 30 million in Norwegian development aid. more >>
H. L. D. Mahindapala
29 August, 2007
Yesterday Ethiopia accused Norwegian diplomats of interfering in its internal affairs and expelled six diplomats serving in Addis Ababa. They have been ordered to get out by 15 September and the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wahide Belay told the media that only an ambassador and two others can remain in their posts. more >>
29 August, 2007
OSAKA, Japan (AFP) - Reigning world champion Tirunesh Dibaba pulled out of the women's 5,000 metres with stomach pain on Tuesday, ending her bid for a second consecutive distance double. more >>
29 August, 2007
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a directive and sent a letter which orders commercial banks to take over and sell the memorial gold and silver coins it minted for the Millennium. more >>
29 August, 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) began supplying mobile SIM cards in the Addis Abeba Bole International Airport passengers’ terminal to the Diaspora coming for the Millennium on August 21, 2007. more >>
29 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia on Tuesday justified its decision to expel Norwegian diplomats arguing that Oslo was interfering in its internal affairs and destablising the Horn of Africa. more >>
Bertukan to be presented with 90 thousand birr Toyota
By Tedla Desta - Capital
28 August, 2007
In tribute to Bertukan Mideksa and other individuals released from prison with her, the Ferensaye Legasion neighborhood is to award Bertukan with a car valued at 90 thousand birr, a member of the committee formed for the purpose told Capital. more >>
By Kirubel Tadesse - Capital
28 August, 2007
The price of meat picked up on August 23, 2007, and is still showing increment after the end of the Ethiopian Orthodox sixteen day fast. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
28 August, 2007
The President of the Republic of Djibouti, Ismail Omar Guelleh, has built a hotel in Dire Dawa town which is to be inaugurated next month, Iltireh Daher, Counselor at the Djibouti Embassy in Addis Ababa and Private Agent of the President told Capital. more >>
by Shigemi Sato
27 August, 2007
OSAKA, Japan (AFP) - Kenenisa Bekele added to his aura Monday with a third straight 10,000 metre world title after teammate Sileshi Sihine paced him in a dramatic victory for Ethiopia. more >>
Endale Assefa _ Daily Monitor, Addis Abeba
27 August, 2007
Microsoft is eying an enhanced market for the sell of its Windows XP software program in Ethiopia, as part of Bill Gates's 'ambitious plan' to bring the benefits of technology to the next five billion people around the world, more >>
25 August, 2007
Osaka, Japan - Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia did it the hard way, providing a dramatic scenario in the successful defence of her 10,000m title, in the first track final of these 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Osaka. more >>
25 August, 2007
One of the opposition parties operating in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Democratic Unity Party-MEDHIN (EDUP-MEDHIN) - warned on Friday that if immediate measures are not taken to curb the current inflation in the country it could lead to a political crisis. more >>
25 August, 2007
Before concluding the 4th Ethio-Yemen Joint Ministerial Commission late on Monday, Ethiopia and Yemen signed various agreements for strengthening and implementing previous trade agreements. more >>
by Marlowe Hood
23 August, 2007
PARIS (AFP) - Ten million-year-old fossils discovered in Ethiopia show that humans and apes probably split six or seven million years earlier than widely thought, according to landmark study released Wednesday. more >>
23 August, 2007
Osaka, (Addis Ababa) - An Ethiopian athletics squad arrived in Osaka city later on Wednesday to take part in the 11th World Athletics Championship, to be launched this coming Saturday. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
22 August, 2007
German Chancellor Angela Dorothea Merkel is expected to visit Ethiopia in October, sources told Capital. more >>
21 August, 2007
The management of Sheraton Addis is in a hiring spree, eyeing a Millennium bonanza it will organise inside Ethiopia's largest concert hall under construction on Africa Avenue (Bole Road) at a project cost of 10 million dollars. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
21 August, 2007
The Grand Festival of Taste of Addis - Africa Festival (TAAAF) which was to take place from September 11 to19 at Meskel Square has been canceled, Capital learnt. more >>
By Jack Kimball
21 August, 2007
ASMARA (Reuters) - Standing in a muddy courtyard, 65-year-old Letezai Tewolde-Bahta's eyes dart back and forth as she stares at a doorway leading to Eritrea's legal office. more >>
19 August, 2007
The prices of a kilo of pepper, which was 32 birr a kilo, is now about 60 birr a kilo. The price has increased by more than 200 percent in one year. more >>
Poised to penetrate market with “lower” service fees
19 August, 2007
Global Financial Exchange Holdings LLC, a US-based Ethiopian American company, will late this month start providing online money transfer services to Ethiopia from abroad, company Chief Operating Officer (COO) Dr. Munir H. Idriss told The Reporter. more >>
19 August, 2007
Addis Ababa (WIC)– The distribution of 50,000 laptops among school children in Ethiopia will begin in the metropolis on August 22, 2007,making the country the first in Africa to adopt the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, according to the Engineering Capacity Building Program(ecbp). more >>
By Barry Malone
19 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia freed 31 opposition members on Saturday who had been held without charge since a disputed 2005 election led to violent street protests, a senior official said. more >>
18 August, 2007
The Ethiopian Airlines' request for permission to start flights to Canada has encountered resistance from a certain group of individuals residing in that country. more >>
Menase Kifle - Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
17 August, 2007
Addis Taxi drivers and their assistants including those who help keep turns have on Thursday been advised to be on alert to identify possible insurgent clients feared on a destabilizing mission here. more >>
By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press Writer
17 August, 2007
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration is preparing a case to designate the Red Sea state of Eritrea a "state sponsor of terrorism" for its alleged support of al-Qaida-linked Islamist militants in Somalia, the top U.S. diplomat for Africa said Friday. more >>
17 August, 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering putting Eritrea on its list of state sponsors of terrorism, which would impose some sanctions, for allowing arms to flow into Somalia, a senior U.S. official said on Friday. more >>
16 August, 2007
Addis Ababa - The Metropolitan Millennium Secretariat said on Wednesday that Ethiopia is the sole country, which is closing to achieve the UN’s Plant for the Planet: Billion Tree Campaign. more >>
By Barry Malone
15 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines hopes to tap surging growth in China and India by opening new flights aimed at making Addis Ababa their gateway to Africa, Chief Executive Girma Wake said. more >>
15 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia plans to start commercial production of a coffee variety with naturally low caffeine that was found growing in the wild, the agricultural minister said on Wednesday. more >>
15 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A volcano has erupted in Ethiopia's remote Afar region, leaving two people missing and forcing hundreds to leave the area, the state news agency said on Wednesday. more >>
14 August, 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) commenced negotiation with the Somaliland government to wire the underground back-up fibre optics passing through the eastern part of the country to Berbera Port and link with the marine cable on the shore of the Red Sea. more >>
14 August, 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Eritrea has been given a 90-day deadline to close its consulate in Oakland, California, a US official said Monday, in a further sign of worsening relations between Washington and Asmara. more >>
11 August, 2007
The Ethio-Sudan optical fiber installation project, which was finalized about a month ago with an investment outlay of 118 million birr, will be inaugurated today at the Sheraton Addis, it was learnt. more >>
Secures loan for purchase of Dreamliners
11 August, 2007
The acquisition of new aircrafts is prompting Ethiopian Airlines to hire foreign pilots. more >>
11 August, 2007
The first annual Ethiopian Diaspora Business conference will, on the coming September, take place in Addis Ababa. more >>
By Arjun Kohli Nairobi VOA News
11 August, 2007
The minister for Mining and Energy in Ethiopia says the recent oil deals signed with international companies for exploration and mining across the country will bring much needed development to the poor East African country, despite opposition. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
10 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has signed a $1.9 million deal allowing Malaysian state oil firm Petronas [PETR.UL] to develop natural gas in its Ogaden region where rebels have warned oil companies to stay away, an official said on Friday. more >>
09 August, 2007
Israeli health experts are offering training to 33 Ethiopians on medical clowning to enable them to provide assistance to patients through entertainment, the Ethiopian News Agency reported Wednesday. more >>
By Orly Halpern
09 August, 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - As the gray-haired man of letters strode into the posh restaurant in Ethiopia's capital recently, wearing his signature long, white yemiyakora tunic and black and white cap, patrons stood up and applauded. more >>
08 August, 2007
Addis Ababa - Ethiopian famous fossil Lucy has safely arrived in America on Sunday, Culture and Tourism Minister Ambassador Mohamed Drir said. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
07 August, 2007
In the spirit of the ongoing national reconciliation on the approach of the Ethiopian third Millennium, the government of Ethiopia plans to pardon more than 13,000 prisoners, Capital learnt. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
07 August, 2007
Ten years ago, Yemane Woldemariam was begging for three months just for the sake of research. His research resulted in the re-integration of some 24,000 beggars from Tigray back to their community. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
06 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The 3.2 million-year-old skeleton known as Lucy was quietly flown out of Ethiopia overnight for a tour of the United States, a trip some consider too risky for one of the world's most famous fossils. more >>
06 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia carried out its second execution in a decade on Monday, against a military officer convicted of killing the country's former head of security and immigration, the federal prison service said. more >>
06 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - One civilian was killed and eight wounded in two bomb blasts in Ethiopia's remote Ogaden region, officials said on Monday, as Ogaden rebels and the government blamed each other for the explosions. more >>
05 August, 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Eritrea on Saturday dismissed a United Nations decision to extend by six months the mandate of its mission monitoring a disputed border with arch-foe Ethiopia. more >>
04 August, 2007
Ethiopia’s global competitiveness in the current fiscal year dropped by three places to a 123rd position amongst 128 economies, according to the World Economic Forum’s (WEF) 2007 Africa Competitiveness Report. more >>
By Tim Butcher in Jerusalem, www.telegraph.co.uk
03 August, 2007
Israel's interior minister faces accusations of racism after he suggested suspending the policy of allowing Ethiopians with Jewish ancestry to move to the country. more >>
02 August, 2007
Addis Ababa - The Federal High Court has sentenced five CUD leaders convicted of attempting to dismantle the national constitutional system through violence from four to 16-year rigorous jail terms. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
02 August, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Five African nations pledged on Thursday to send peacekeepers to a mission in Sudan's troubled Darfur region that was approved this week by the U.N. Security Council, a top African Union (AU) official said. more >>
01 August, 2007
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has noted that various parties, in particular members of certain foreign media with their own hidden agenda and mission, have been disseminating erroneous stories alleging that the Ethiopian Government was blockading emergency food aid, restricting trade, causing price hikes and burning down villages in retaliation for support given to the so-called Ogaden National Liberation Front, (ONLF). more >>