Ethiopia's main party bids to extend Meles' reign

28 February, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Thirty-five years after its founding, the TPLF -- now well entrenched in power in the EPRDF coalition -- celebrated its anniversary this week amid looming elections and pledges of economic prosperity. more >>

Ethiopian Airlines attacks Lebanon crash comments

24 February, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopian Airlines chief Girma Wake on Wednesday accused Lebanese authorities of making "misleading" comments on the cause of a crash that killed 90 people off Beirut last month. more >>

Al Jazeera's Jane Dutton conducts a rare interview with Isaisas Afwerki

21 February, 2010

Twenty years after the liberation from Ethiopia, Eritrea, Africa's youngest nation, has emerged as strategically vital to the stability of the region and the wider global agenda. more >>

Group lists Ethiopia on money laundering blacklist

21 February, 2010

ABU DHABI (Reuters) - The international body fighting money laundering and terrorist financing on Thursday blacklisted Iran, Angola, North Korea, Ecuador and Ethiopia as posing risks to the international financial system. more >>

EU mulling sending observers for Ethiopia polls

19 February, 2010

(ADDIS ABABA) EUbusiness - The European Union is considering sending observers to monitor Ethiopia's elections in May, its delegation in Addis Ababa said Thursday. more >>

Ethiopia Opposition Denies Government Claim of Eritrea Alliance

17 February, 2010

(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s main opposition grouping disputed a government claim that political opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s ruling party are colluding with the country’s arch-enemy, Eritrea. more >>

Gunmen stop Ethiopia candidates registering-group

17 February, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's main opposition coalition said on Wednesday that some of its candidates were being prevented at gunpoint from registering for national elections in May. more >>

Ethiopia’s `Ice Slider’ prepares for 2nd Olympics

13 February, 2010

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - When Robel Teklemariam is asked if he has a nickname back home in Ethiopia, the Olympic men’s cross country skier notes that there’s no specific word for “snow” in his native language. more >>

UK, Ethiopia to head climate funding effort

13 February, 2010

LONDON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Britain and Ethiopia will head a new United Nations panel that aims to secure $100 billion every year by 2020 to help developing nations cut emissions and adapt to climate change, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday. more >>

Tunnel Collapse Closes Ethiopia's New Hydropower Project

11 February, 2010

VOANews - Ethiopia's newest and biggest hydroelectric power station has been shut down due to a tunnel collapse weeks after its official opening. more >>

Crashed Ethiopian jet's second black box found

10 February, 2010

BEIRUT (AFP) – Divers retrieved on Wednesday the cockpit voice recorder from an Ethiopian jet that crashed off the Lebanese coast last month as officials warned against speculation about the cause of the disaster that killed 90 people. more >>

Ethiopia sets rules for election observers

10 February, 2010

ADDIS ADABA (AFP) – The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) said Wednesday it has drawn up a code of conduct for international election observers, the national news agency ENA reported. more >>

Ethiopian jet's black box flown to France

09 February, 2010

BEIRUT (AP) -- Lebanese authorities say a black box recovered from the wreckage of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed into the Mediterranean last month has been flown to France for analysis. more >>

Toyota announces mass hybrid vehicle recall

09 February, 2010

TOKYO (AFP) – Toyota said Tuesday it would recall more than 400,000 hybrid vehicles around the world, including its latest Prius model, plunging deeper into crisis as lawsuits in the United States piled up. more >>

Lebanon recovers crashed Ethiopian jet's data box

07 February, 2010

BEIRUT (Reuters) – Search teams have retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people aboard. more >>

Ethiopia law forces journalists to reveal sources

07 February, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's new anti-terror law strips journalists of the right to protect the identity of their sources, a top official said in a statement carried Saturday by the national news agency ENA. more >>

Ethiopian-flagged vessel thwarts pirate attack

04 February, 2010

(CNN) -- An Ethiopian-flagged vessel fought off a pirate attack in the Gulf of Aden earlier this week, the multi-national anti-piracy task force said Thursday. more >>

Ethiopia Expects Economy to Expand by 10.1% This Year

04 February, 2010

(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s economy is expected to grow 10.1 percent in the year to July 7, from 9.9 percent the previous year, a finance ministry official said. more >>

US envoy pledges to press Ethiopia on rights

03 February, 2010

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human rights, free political prisoners and make upcoming elections fair. more >>

Kenya, Ethiopia to inter-connect Power Grids

03 February, 2010

KBC - President Mwai Kibaki, who is attending the 14th AU Summit in Addis Ababa, Tuesday met and held talks with the Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Ethiopia, Meles Zenawi. more >>

Ethiopian journalist jailed for criticising leader

03 February, 2010

ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – An Ethiopian journalist has been jailed for a year for criticising the prime minister, the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) said Tuesday. more >>