31 August, 2008
After spending six days in a regional state prison, Amare Aregawi described his experience as an eye-opener to how little attention is being given to the plight of average citizens in different parts of the country. more >>
31 August, 2008
A new look for Ethiopia's capital as areas where green grass grew are being replaced with buildings. more >>
29 August, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Olympic 5,000 and 10,000 metres champion Tirunesh Dibaba plans to repeat her golden double at the world athletics championships in Berlin next year. more >>
29 August, 2008
ZURICH (Reuters) - Ethiopia's hopes of taking part in the 2010 World Cup were dealt a further blow on Friday when FIFA confirmed that it was cancelling a qualifying match against Morocco scheduled for September 7. more >>
29 August, 2008
Somali insurgents welcomed Ethiopia's hint that it will withdraw its troops from Somalia even before the current Somali interim government is stable and effective, spokesman for the group said on Friday. more >>
28 August, 2008
Reporters Without Borders has learned the good news that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the privately-owned Amharic-language weekly Reporter, was released yesterday evening. more >>
28 August, 2008
Ethiopia is prepared to withdraw troops from Somalia even if the interim government is not stable, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said. more >>
27 August, 2008
Thousands of cheering Ethiopians have lined the streets of the capital, Addis Ababa, to welcome home the country's Olympic gold-medal winning athletes. more >>
27 August, 2008
Libya's civil aviation director Mohammed Shlibaq said that two Egyptian members of the UN-led Darfur peacekeeping force, two Ethiopians and a Ugandan were among the passengers, the official JANA news agency reported. more >>
26 August, 2008
Reporters Without Borders is dismayed to learn that Amare Aregawi, the editor of the big-circulation weekly Reporter, was arrested on 22 August in Addis Ababa and was then illegally transferred to a prison in Gondar, 750 km north of the capital, in connection with a libel case brought by the Gondar-based Dashen brewery. more >>
25 August, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) - Meteorologists dispatched eight planes to release rain dispersal chemicals and fired 241 rockets into incoming clouds to ensure a dry Beijing Olympics closing ceremony, state media said Monday. more >>
25 August, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Flooding in Ethiopia's western Gambella region has killed three people, displaced thousands and destroyed crops, an official said on Monday. more >>
23 August, 2008
BEIJING - Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia has won the 5,000 meters in an Olympic record to complete a distance double at the Beijing Games. more >>
22 August, 2008
BEIJING — The women’s 5,000 meters has become less of an open race than a personal tug of war between Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar. more >>
22 August, 2008
Would-be immigrants from Eritrea arrive by boat in the port of Italy's southern island of Lampedusa on August 21, 2008. more >>
21 August, 2008
Nokia is customising a range of handsets, including some 3G models for the Ethiopian market by adding Ethiopic text capabilities to their phones. more >>
21 August, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States on Wednesday suspended a program aimed at reuniting refugees from mainly East Africa with relatives in the United States after DNA testing revealed rampant fraud. more >>
19 August, 2008
The Federal Government has decided to return Wabe Shebele Hotel, located near Mexico Square, in Kirkos District, to its original owners. more >>
19 August, 2008
CAIRO (AFP) - An Egyptian woman has given birth to a set of septuplets in the Mediterranean city of Alexandria, in what doctors termed "a miracle," the official MENA news agency reported on Saturday. more >>
19 August, 2008
The BBC has recently aired a TV report, in which Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili ate his tie. more >>
19 August, 2008
The government of Djibouti has suspended planned tariff increases on port services, a day before it was due to come into effect on August 15, 2008. more >>
18 August, 2008
Mikhail Prokhorov is believed to have paid more than £400 million for Villa Leopolda, built in 1902 for Belgian King Leopold II near Cap Ferrat, between Nice and Monaco. more >>
17 August, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) - Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia won his second successive Olympic 10,000 metres gold medal on Sunday, producing a devastating burst of speed on the last lap to see off any pretenders to his title. more >>
15 August, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) - Ethiopia's Tirunesh Dibaba produced her trademark electric last lap to win the women's 10,000 metres gold medal at the Olympics on Friday. more >>
13 August, 2008
Last week witnessed long queues in every corner of Addis Abeba as residents who wanted to acquire ordinary subscriber Identity Module (SIM) cards for their mobile phones packed in front of, and around branches of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) and private establishments that the former licensed to sell SIM cards. more >>
13 August, 2008
Mr Richard Mosiah Ababba Allen, 41 year-old Master of Civil Law, told the media that he would walk from Tamale to Accra and then proceed to Ethiopia to present a White Flag to the AU President at the AU summit. more >>
13 August, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A Chinese company has signed a $34 million deal with Ethiopia to build four factories producing leather goods north of the capital Addis Ababa. more >>
11 August, 2008
Aero vodochody, a Czech company, is to start assembling aircrafts in Ethiopia, which will increase the number of its assembling plants in Africa to three. more >>
11 August, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, ETHIOPIA -- Sequestered in a dank prison cell here, Ethiopia's biggest reggae star awaits trial in a deadly hit-and-run case that has galvanized the nation. more >>
11 August, 2008
TEL AVIV (IRIN) - Thousands of Eritrean asylum-seekers in Israel have been told they will have to leave the greater Tel Aviv area and move to other parts of the country. more >>
10 August, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - A senior Foreign Affairs Ministry official said dialogue is the only option to resolve Ethio-Eritrea border dispute peacefully. more >>
08 August, 2008
BEIJING (Xinhua) -- Athletics will provide the most flag bearers at the opening ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games on Friday night. more >>
07 August, 2008
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Has Olympic and World 5000m champion Meseret Defar lost some of her spark? Is she no longer the golden girl of Ethiopian athletics? more >>
06 August, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) - Flag-waving crowds cheered the torch relay through Beijing's Tiananmen Square Wednesday as Olympic fever mounted, but a dramatic Tibet protest and a row over Darfur clouded the Games build-up. more >>
06 August, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia hopes to boost tourism earnings 15 percent to $200 million this year, the government said on Wednesday. more >>
06 August, 2008
The Harper government is satisfied with assurances that a Canadian imprisoned in Ethiopia for 18 months will be allowed legal representation and continued consular visits, Deepak Obhrai, parliamentary secretary to the Foreign Minister said yesterday. more >>
05 August, 2008
The state telecom monopoly, Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), has suspended internet services in seven towns of the Oromia, Amhara and Harari regional states, as well as in Dire Dawa town. more >>
05 August, 2008
Israel says it has carried out its last major airlift of Ethiopian Jews, ending a 30-year immigration scheme that has seen some 100,000 move there. more >>
05 August, 2008
Ethiopian judge overseeing the high-profile trial of an imprisoned pop singer jailed the editor of an independent weekly for contempt of court today. more >>
05 August, 2008
SEOUL, South Korea - Booger is back. An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world's first successful commercial canine cloning service. more >>
03 August, 2008
Athlete manager Jos Hermens denied reports he has been suspended by the Ethiopian Athletics Federation over unwanted intrusion into Ethiopian Olympic team preparations. more >>
03 August, 2008
Bill Clinton and a small gaggle of press went to Africa this week for the former president's annual tour of the continent, but as usual, went on two separate planes. Though this wouldn't normally be a tech subject, the owner of Clinton's plane, Google, is. more >>
02 August, 2008
One of Ethiopia’s most iconic monuments, the 1,700-year-old Aksum Obelisk, has been successfully reinstalled at its original location after the third and final block was mounted in place this week by teams from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). more >>
02 August, 2008
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Two thirds of Somalia's cabinet threatened to resign Saturday over alleged misuse of state resources by the prime minister, opening a fresh political rift and undermining fledgling truce efforts. more >>
01 August, 2008
GODINO JITU, Ethiopia (AFP) - Former US president Bill Clinton on Friday pledged more support to combat HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, where he started a four-nation African tour. more >>