31 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Egypt will each send 850 troops early in the new year to serve with a joint United Nations-African Union force in Sudan's Darfur region, an AU official told Reuters on Monday. more >>
30 December, 2007
World Marathon record holder Haile Gebrselassie believes he can lower his mark still further when he takes part in the Dubai Marathon on Jan 18. more >>
MFA Issues Press Statement
27 December, 2007
The version of the story about an incident along Ethiopia Eritrea border recounted by Eritrea on Dec.26, 2007 is not based on what really took place. more >>
United Nations News Service
27 December, 2007
The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea today called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000. more >>
By Staff - shabait.com
27 December, 2007
Asmara – In continuation to its ongoing provocations against the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Eritrea, the TPLF regime has unleashed a relatively small scale attack at exactly 03:00 am local time yesterday December 25 more >>
27 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia on Thursday welcomed the recent deployment of Burundian peacekeepers to Somalia and asked for more help from the African Union in its struggle with Islamist insurgents there. more >>
26 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two human rights activists received a two-and-a-half year jail sentence on Wednesday for inciting post-election violence in 2005, but will walk free within days as they have already served their prison time. more >>
26 December, 2007
NAIROBI (AFP) - The escalating Somali conflict is a "second Iraq" for Ethiopia and its international partners who supported the country's invasion, said Eritrea's information ministry a year on from the invasion. more >>
26 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Isayas Gabriel remembers when tens of thousands of his fellow soldiers were cut down during Ethiopia's last war with Eritrea, a 2 1/2 year bloodbath over a seemingly insignificant border town called Badme. more >>
25 December, 2007
Former Zambian leader Kenneth Kaunda (Phd), who led his country in its first years as an independent state, returned to Addis Abeba last week to petition for Ethiopia's support for his country's nominee for chairman of the Africa Union (AU) Commission. more >>
25 December, 2007
The Ethiopian Private Employer Agencies Association (EPEAA) made an agreement with the Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC) last week on December 20, 2007 to insure tens of thousands of people, mostly women, sent to the Middle East to work as domestic servants, labourers and other unskilled employees. more >>
24 December, 2007
The pressure against Matthew Williamson, a British high profile designer, who has introduced Ethiopian national dresses in his spring/summer ‘08 collections, is mounting worldwide. more >>
24 December, 2007
An Ethiopian court has convicted two anti-poverty activists of inciting violence after the elections in 2005.
Daniel Bekele, who works for ActionAid International, and local charity worker Netsanet Demissie could face up to 10 years in prison. more >>
Gwynne Dyer, Arab News
24 December, 2007
It is exactly a year since Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, fell to Ethiopian troops (Dec. 28), and the occupation has been one of the most brutal on record. The resistance started at once, and Ethiopian counterinsurgency tactics are not gentle. more >>
By Joe De Capua - VOA Washington
24 December, 2007
It was Christmas Day a year ago that the situation in Somalia changed dramatically. That’s when Ethiopia invaded and drove out forces belonging to the Islamic Courts Union. However, Ethiopia’s initial, decisive military victory has turned into a yearlong occupation with no end in sight. more >>
24 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The Ethiopian government said Monday it was banking on an eight percent growth in coffee harvests for the coming season. more >>
22 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia claimed on Saturday it was receiving an influx of around 600 Eritreans fleeing political oppression in their country every month. more >>
22 December, 2007
A coalition of NGOs and charities has collected over 30,000 personal pledges in support of Ethiopian children affected by HIV/Aids. more >>
22 December, 2007
A draft political parties registration proclamation has met resistance from the opposition in parliament.The draft proclamation, which will replace the current one governing the laws of registration, has added articles restricting sources of donation for locally registered parties. more >>
By Geoffrey Fattah - Deseret Morning News
22 December, 2007
Two Utah resident refugees accused of importing more than 400 pounds of an exotic stimulant from Ethiopia made an appearance in federal court Friday. more >>
22 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean opposition groups should help each other bring down the pro-Ethiopian government of President Isaias Afwerki, the Walta News Agency quoted one opposition leader as saying on Friday. more >>
20 December, 2007
Daniel Bekele and Netsanet Demissie, human rights lawyers and coordinators of the Global Call to Action against Poverty (GCAP) in Ethiopia, have been in detention for more than two years for treason-related charges. If found guilty, they could face life in jail or the death sentence. more >>
20 December, 2007
The year 2007 saw crude oil break free and march towards the USD 100 mark on the back of continued strong demand from Asia, low crude oil stocks in the US, and geopolitical tensions across the Middle East. more >>
20 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has successfully won trademark rights for its specialty Harar and Sidamo coffee names, it said in a statement on Thursday. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Mekelle, Ethiopia
20 December, 2007
The mountains of eastern Tigray in Ethiopia are bare and brown just three months after the end of the rains. The people in the region are skilled farmers and hard workers but even they struggle to support their families from their tiny patches of worn-out land. more >>
20 December, 2007
NAIROBI (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in a BBC interview broadcast Thursday accused UN agencies of exaggerating the humanitarian and security emergency in Somalia, a country increasingly running adrift in the face of an insurgency. more >>
By Nicholas Benequista | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
19 December, 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - By most accounts, Meaza Birru is patient. Not easily daunted, she waited eight years to have a commercial radio station – the first in Ethiopia. more >>
18 December, 2007
The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECEx), which was due to begin operations last week on December 12, has postponed opening for two months due to delays in installing equipment. more >>
18 December, 2007
ADDIS ABBA — Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo and Tesome Toga, the Ethiopian parliamentary president, today inaugurated in this capital city the Monument Park dedicated to Cuban internationalists who died in this African country. more >>
18 December, 2007
SANAA (AFP) - The bodies of 56 illegal immigrants, mostly from Somalia and Ethiopia, have been found on the south coast of Yemen, the official SABA news agency reported on Tuesday. more >>
17 December, 2007
Addis Ababa city roads authority (AACRA) announced that construction of Gotera Interchange Roads- a flyovers and interchange squares project, is being speeded up. more >>
By Muluken Yewondwossen - Capital
17 December, 2007
The Oromia Regional State government has signed a contract agreement with EURO-tel, an Italian telecommunications company, to build a television station and transmitters, on Friday December 14, 2007 at the regional president’s office. more >>
By Patrick Poole www.pajamasmedia.com
16 December, 2007
Ethiopia has ousted the Al Qaeda-backed Islamic Courts Union in Somalia and pledged 5,000 troops to a UN peacekeeping force in Darfur. Yet a bill that prohibits the US from providing financial and military support to the country has made its way to the Senate. Patrick Poole reports on a possible setback for American foreign policy. more >>
16 December, 2007
HOLETA, Ethiopia (AFP) — The smell of flowers is displacing the aroma of coffee as a driving force in the Ethiopian economy. more >>
16 December, 2007
Addis Ababa - A US based company called Inter Global is to acquire oil exploration areas in Ethiopia. The exploration areas are found in the Afar Regional State, Tigrai and eastern part of the Amhara Regional State. more >>
16 December, 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Ethiopian troops must leave Somalia for the country's ailing transitional institutions to garner any legitimacy and a political solution to emerge, leaders from Somalia's top clan said Thursday. more >>
15 December, 2007
Iranian and Ethiopian officials discuss opening the Ethiopian embassy in Tehran in a bid to boost bilateral and economic relations. more >>
15 December, 2007
Hailu Shawel, chairman of the former Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), this Tuesday wrote a letter to the party's Supreme Council in which he suspended five leadership members. more >>
General, HANA Staff - By Andualem Gessesse
14 December, 2007
Nokia Siemens, a joint venture of Siemens Communications and Nokia Networks Business Group, has announced plans to expand its business in Ethiopia to reach the rural parts of the country. more >>
TuscaloosaNews.com
14 December, 2007
The University of Alabama School of Law was recently chosen by the Ethiopian government to help that country build its graduate law programs. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
13 December, 2007
A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Geez script - used for Amharic and other languages in the region. more >>
The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
13 December, 2007
The government is set to provide family planning services to 8.5 million mothers across the country during the current Ethiopian year, the Ministry of Health announced on Monday. more >>
13 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - The locust infestation remains serious in northeast Kenya and southeast Ethiopia, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). more >>
13 December, 2007
NAIROBI (AFP) - An East African peacemaking bloc on Wednesday urged Eritrea to return to the fold, seven months after it pulled out, undermining efforts to restore regional stability, Kenyan officials said. more >>
12 December, 2007
Ethiopia is on the verge of halting petroleum product imports from Sudan, and may be forced to pay as much as 10 million dollars more every year to get its fuel from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations. more >>
12 December, 2007
The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MoTC) will construct two dry ports for lorries and trains with a projected cost of 300 million Br. The Ministry annexed 140hct of land in Modjo and Mille for the facilities, paying four million Birr in compensation to the displaced farmers. more >>
12 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said it had signed an agreement with an Indian mining firm on Tuesday to establish a $451 million factory to mine potash, a key ingredient in fertiliser, in the arid Afar desert. more >>
10 December, 2007
BOSASSO (IRIN) - Genet Mengesha, a 24-year-old mother of one and former university student, left her home in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, shortly after the 2005 elections to reach Yemen through the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
10 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] and China's Sinopec (0386.HK: Quote, Profile, Research) remain in talks to resume oil and gas prospecting in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where rebels killed Chinese workers in April, the Ethiopian government said on Monday. more >>
By Kirubel Tadesse - Capital
10 December, 2007
H.R. 2003, Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act of 2007, which its supporters claim helps to encourage and facilitate the consolidation of peace and security, respect for human rights, democracy, and economic freedom in Ethiopia, can’t gain the full support of Ethiopian opposition Members of Parliament as it did in the US House of Representatives. more >>
By Muluken Yewondwossen - Capital
10 December, 2007
The Federal Transport Authority is set to change the current graded licenses to professional driving licenses. Kassahun Hailemariam, Transport Authority director general, said, “The significance of this change is to minimize car accident and to adopt international standards.” more >>
The Daily Monitor, Addis Ababa
09 December, 2007
A wildlife conservation group in Cameroon is considering to sue the Ethiopian Airlines for complicity after it caught smugglers trying to take 1,000 African Grey parrots out of the central African country. more >>
09 December, 2007
[BRUSSELS] A new initiative aims to enhance scientific research and innovation partnerships between developed nations and Africa by linking research collaboration programmes with the private sector. more >>
08 December, 2007
European and African leaders should go beyond promises and act to end atrocities, hold abusers to account and combat corruption, Human Rights Watch said today. The first European Union-Africa summit for seven years will be held in Lisbon on December 8-9, 2007. more >>
08 December, 2007
By WENN Angelina Jolie would have never adopted her Ethiopian daughter Zahara if she'd known her mother was alive, according to the actress' brother. more >>
08 December, 2007
THREE of five British residents held at the military prison in Guantanamo Bay will soon be released under a repatriation agreement with the British Government, an attorney for one of the detainees said. more >>
08 December, 2007
We are looking at exactly that because we are very concerned about the efforts of Eritrea and what it is doing. And in fact, we have taken some steps because the support for irregular forces, for terrorist forces is simply unacceptable. more >>
07 December, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Star tree-planter Ethiopia will intensify its re-afforestation drive in 2008, which earned the country a pole position in the world for planting 700 million trees this year, an official said Thursday. more >>
07 December, 2007
The grave humanitarian conditions in south-eastern Ethiopia, the Darfur region of Sudan and Somalia could substantially worsen in the months ahead, the top United Nations relief official told the Security Council today as he briefed members on his recent visit to Africa. more >>
Bureau for African Affairs Washington, DC
07 December, 2007
United States policy toward the boundary impasse between Eritrea and Ethiopia is and has been for both governments to respect commitments in the Algiers Agreements, comply with relevant Resolutions of the UNSC, and engage directly to implement the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s (EEBC) delimitation decision and address issues that divide them. more >>
07 December, 2007
A continental highway linking Sudan and Ethiopia was inaugurated on Thursday by Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in eastern Sudan. more >>
Sarah Crown - Guardian Unlimited
06 December, 2007
A novel that tackles fraught questions of identity, dislocation and loneliness through the life of an Ethiopian émigré in the US has taken this year's Guardian First Book Award. more >>
06 December, 2007
The likelihood of conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea is at its highest level in seven years. Eritrea is in the weaker position, politically and economically. more >>
06 December, 2007
A jailed Eritrean reporter has been named journalist of the year by media watchdog Reporters Without Borders. Seyoum Tsehaye has not been allowed a visit from his family or lawyer during his six years in prison, RWB says. more >>
By Shashank Bengali, McClatchy Newspapers
05 December, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya — Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Ethiopia this week puts a spotlight on the tight but troubled relationship between the United States and the volatile Horn of Africa nation. more >>
05 December, 2007
Addis Ababa - The House of Peoples Representatives (HPR) on Tuesday deliberated and passed decisions on the number of Seats for the Addis Ababa City and the Dire Dawa Town Administrative Councils. more >>
04 December, 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is finalizing preparations to launch 3G (Third Generation) mobile services in fifty selected areas to corporate customers and its professionals. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
03 December, 2007
HR 2003, the bill in the US Senate on Ethiopia formulated to with advancing human rights and democracy in the country, violates the Ethiopian Federal Constitution, said Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. more >>
01 December, 2007
Executives of the US coffee company Starbucks are negotiating with Almeda Textile Factory to manufacture its black aprons here in Ethiopia. more >>
01 December, 2007
A small country with big ambitions, Eritrea has become the headquarters of opponents from all over the Horn of Africa. Asmara uses them against Ethiopia or as bargaining counters to make its presence felt on the regional diplomatic scene. But its aid is not without obligations, as many of its “guests” have found out to their cost. more >>
01 December, 2007
The police recently apprehended here in Addis Ababa the manager of the Sheraton and Nani building projects, being undertaken by Midroc Construction, in connection with allegedly stolen goods estimated worth 2.5 million birr, sources told The Reporter. more >>