28 February 2007
Addis Ababa - The celebration of the 111th anniversary of the victory of Adowa comes as a unique national event as it falls on the eve of the Ethiopian Millennium and in the aftermath of the victory gained over terrorists, President of the Association of Ancient Ethiopian Patriots, Leketiguhan Astatke said. more >>
28 February 2007
Addis Ababa - Somalia's struggle to form a unified government after 15 years of clan warfare is achieving success, after the TFG and Ethiopian forces drove away the UIC and other destabilizing forces harbored there, said a U.S. diplomat. This joint victory of last December also withered away Eritrea's hopes of destabilizing Ethiopia. more >>
28 February 2007
The Ethiopian flower industry, after having experienced a tremendous boom in the Oromia and Southern Regional States, has now set its sights on the Tigray and Amhara Regional States. more >>
by Dayan Tadesse - Ethiopian Herald
28 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA – Member States of the Sana’a Forum for Cooperation expressed their desire and firm commitment to work together to achieve durable peace, Security and sustainable development in the Horn of Africa and the Southern Red Sea. more >>
27 February 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is planning to lower its service tariffs for its mobile and internet customers. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
27 February 2007
The project that is expected to cost 61 million dollars for the 321 kilometer long electricity network between Sudan and Ethiopia is expected to be finalized in 2008. more >>
26 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA/GENEVA/NEW YORK – UNICEF Executive Director Ann M. Veneman today highlighted progress in achieving the Millennium Development Goals in Ethiopia and expressed hope for the future of the country’s children. more >>
26 February 2007
Addis Ababa - The Addis Ababa University in collaboration with the Ethiopian Telecommunications and Information College would commence offering education in information and communication technology program in doctorate degree as of next academic year. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
26 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Violence in Somalia could spill over into the greater Horn of Africa region if the government does not receive urgent help in bringing about peace and stability, President Abdullahi Yusuf said on Monday. more >>
By LES NEUHAUS, Associated Press Writer
24 February 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Uganda's top military officials promised to help train a national army for Somalia and help provide security for its government, a Somali official said Friday. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
23 February 2007
The Carter Center supplied three million long-lasting insecticide-impregnated bed nets to support the Ethiopian government’s program of distributing 20 mln bed nets by the end of July 2007. more >>
23 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian intelligence officials on Thursday accused the Eritrean government of involvement in "terror attacks" in Ethiopia. more >>
23 February 2007
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military used bases inside Ethiopia last month in a quiet campaign to capture or kill top al Qaeda leaders in the Horn of Africa, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Thursday, citing U.S. officials. more >>
By SALAD DUHUL, Associated Press Writer
22 February 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Extremists in Somalia threatened to carry out suicide attacks against African Union peacekeepers who are to begin deploying in the coming days, as gunmen fatally shot two local government officials in the capital. more >>
By LES NEUHAUS, Associated Press Writer
22 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - More than 680 people have died in a suspected cholera outbreak in Ethiopia that has also affected neighboring countries, officials said Wednesday. more >>
By Eskinder Michael - Capital
22 February 2007
Yitayew Tiruneh, CUD Member and Member of Parliament was arrested on Wednesday February 14, 2007 at the Kirkos Sub-City Police Station after being indicted for alleged rape. more >>
By Amber Henshaw - BBC News, Lalibela, Ethiopia
22 February 2007
As a boy, Mulugeta Melesse and his friends used to play around the ancient rock-hewn churches of Lalibela in the Ethiopian highlands. more >>
Coastal Empire | Local News - Dana Clark Felty
21 February 2007
Shlomi Bicha understands racism.
As an Ethiopian immigrant to Israel, Bicha recalled how frustrated he felt once while waiting in a doctor's office and watching patient after patient receive treatment before him. When he asked for an explanation, the doctor said he'd have to sterilize all his equipment after treating Bicha. more >>
By Shashank Bengali - McClatchy Newspapers
21 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Kumbe Seboka, nine months pregnant, sat quietly in the hospital parking lot, clutching her medical information card in one hand and cradling her swollen belly with the other, as if to keep her unborn child from escaping. more >>
By Shashank Bengali - McClatchy Newspapers
21 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Journalists here don't criticize the government much anymore, perhaps because doing so has landed at least 15 of them in prison on treason charges. more >>
20 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (IRIN) - The Federal High Court in Ethiopia has once again adjourned the trial of 111 opposition activists and journalists, including more than 70 defendants who have been held in custody since November 2005 on charges of instigating unrest to overthrow the government. more >>
20 February 2007
NAIROBI (AFP) - Fierce inter-clan fighting has killed at least 43 people in Ethiopia's southeastern Ogaden region, inhabited mainly by ethnic Somalis. more >>
20 February 2007
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has received the Confederation of African Football's (Caf) Gold Order of Merit award. more >>
19 February 2007
Addis Ababa, February 19, 2007 (Addis Ababa) - Starbucks agreed not to oppose Ethiopia’s efforts to obtain trademarks for specialty coffees of Sidamo, Harar and Yirgachefe, the Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office said. more >>
19 February 2007
Ethiopia's double world 5000m champion and world indoor 5000m record holder Tirunesh Dibaba has pledged to donate 50,000 birr to support children infected with HIV/AIDS. more >>
19 February 2007
The American company of software, Oracle, made a gift of software in Ethiopia of a value of 160 million US dollar which will be distributed to the pupils through all the country. more >>
By A CORRESPONDENT - The EastAfrican
19 February 2007
Lundin Petroleum AB of Sweden — through its subsidiary, Lundin East Africa — will commence oil exploration in Ethiopia before the end of the year. more >>
Austin triathlete Ficker takes second place
By Jake Trotter - AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
19 February 2007
Had it not been for a kindly Austin taxicab driver, Zebenaye Moges might not have won the AT&T Austin Marathon on Sunday. more >>
17 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - US coffee giant Starbucks, locked in a trademark tussle with Ethiopia, said it will not oppose Addis Ababa's bid to brand its coffee in America and pledged to pursue dialogue over the matter. more >>
By Les Neuhaus, Associated Press Writer
16 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) -- Starbucks will double its purchases of fine coffee from East African countries by 2009, the vice president for procurement said Thursday at a coffee conference in the Ethiopian capital. more >>
By David Mageria
16 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 15 (Reuters) - Africa's top coffee growers backed Ethiopia on Thursday in its trademark row with Starbucks (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research), saying securing the protection rights for various crops and plants could lift millions from poverty. more >>
By Alisha Ryu - Nairobi
16 February 2007
Uganda is reportedly preparing to send its first group of peacekeeping troops to Somalia as early as Saturday. more >>
16 February 2007
/24-7PressRelease/ - Oxford/Addis Ababa - Poverty alleviation through social entrepreneurship, focusing - for the very first time in Ethiopian history - on Information Technology: This is the new revolutionary idea behind Alchemy World, a new Charitable Foundation based in Addis Ababa and Oxford. more >>
15 February 2007
(Addis Ababa) - A high-level government delegation led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi left for France to attend the 24th France-Africa heads of state and government summit to open on Thursday. more >>
15 February 2007
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia has secured 5.3 billion Birr in foreign aid and loan over the past six months, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development said. more >>
15 February 2007
However, it was not all good news for the big guns in African football. Ethiopia shocked everyone by beating Algeria 3-1 in their own backyard at the 20 August stadium. The visitors certainly fully merited the gracious applause they received from the Algerian fans shocked to see their side out-fought and out-though by a more organised and disciplined opponent. more >>
15 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - US former president Jimmy Carter announced distribution of thousands of insecticide-treated mosquito nets in impoverished Ethiopia, in a drive that could save up to 100,000 lives annually. more >>
14 February 2007
(CSRwire) ADDIS ABEBA - Many in Ethiopia’s coffee sector were celebrating today as they concluded an historic first meeting of Ethiopian fine coffee stakeholders with US and Canadian coffee importers and distributors of specialty coffees committed to work with them to build Ethiopia’s brand equity, and to raise the value and return to farmers for their finest coffees. more >>
14 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The US Commander of the Joint Task Force for the Horn of Africa lauded its joint anti-terrorism activities with Ethiopia, whose troops recently defeated an Islamist movement in Somalia. more >>
By Andrew Heavens - Reuters
14 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The countdown has started on a flickering billboard high above a roundabout in Ethiopia's capital, blinking out recently in red and gold letters: only 209 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to the Millennium. more >>
14 February 2007
Ugandan MPs have approved the deployment of 1,500 peacekeepers to Somalia as part of an African Union force to replace Ethiopian troops. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
13 February 2007
Last week a four year old girl passed away, in the middle of a rape attempt by a street vagabond in Nazareth. more >>
13 February 2007
Vice Governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), Alemseged Assefa, and Mr. Ishac Diwan, the World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia, Thursday launched a USD 15 million financial sector capacity building project that seeks to strengthen the financial system and increase access to finance for the private sector. more >>
13 February 2007
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, last Tuesday started leading a delegation of senior-level Carter Center officials on an 11-day tour of Africa to call international attention to health needs among impoverished communities in Ghana, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Nigeria, it was learnt. more >>
12 February 2007
One of Mosvold Plc’s shareholders, Fekadu Worku and the General Manager of the household and office furniture factory under the company, Tariku Seifu, were placed under arrest by the Federal Police last week for allegedly failing to pay Value Added Tax (VAT). more >>
12 February 2007
Three people have been killed and several wounded during six explosions in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
12 February 2007
Ethiopian Airlines has finalized negotiations to set up a hub in Togo’s capital Lome this week, after extensive efforts finally succeeded in setting up a West African hub. more >>
By Ayanawo Farada Sanbatu
11 February 2007
A representative was sent by the Interior Ministry on Saturday to Ethiopia, to distribute rejection letters to thousands of Ethiopians seeking to immigrate to Israel. more >>
by Mustafa Haji Abdinur
11 February 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - At least eight people were killed and several others wounded in mortar and grenade attacks in an escalation of guerilla-style attacks in the Somali capital, witnesses said. more >>
10 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopian local elections planned for later this year have been postponed after the ruling and opposition parties reached an agreement, the information ministry has said. more >>
10 February 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Hundreds of demonstrators have filed through Mogadishu to protest the presence of Ethiopian troops and a planned deployment of African peacekeepers in the lawless nation. more >>
Yemen Times
10 February 2007
SANA'A, A Yemeni-Ethiopian summit will bring together Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh and Ethiopian President Girma Wolde-Giorgis will be held over the next few days in Sana'a. more >>
By Amber Henshaw - BBC News, Addis Ababa
09 February 2007
Ethiopia is lodging an appeal to demand the death sentence for the country's former ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam and his closest aides. more >>
CSRwire.com
08 February 2007
Top U.S. law firm Arnold & Porter LLP refutes Starbucks’ VP claim that signing a license agreement with Ethiopia would be against the law. more >>
International Herald Tribune
08 February 2007
ANKARA, Turkey: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday pledged increased Turkish support to development projects in Ethiopia as part of Turkey's efforts to forge closer ties with African nations. more >>
By David Mugabe - East African Business Week
08 February 2007
KAMPALA – Ethiopian Airlines now flies daily from Entebbe to Bujumbura.
This is the latest in the airlines expansion drive as it continues to conquer Africa. The new route has not yet been extensively promoted and marketed, but the airline management is planning to launch a huge commercial drive soon. more >>
08 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Around 50,000 Somalis have crossed into neighbouring Ethiopia in the past six months of instability in their homeland, and most are living without humanitarian aid, the United Nations said on Wednesday. more >>
07 February 2007
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will be in Turkey between Feb. 8-10 to sign cooperative agreements in agriculture and tourism. more >>
By Sahra Abdi Ahmed
07 February 2007
KISMAYU, Somalia (Reuters) - Ethiopian soldiers paraded on Tuesday a wounded senior cleric captured in south Somalia during the pursuit of remnants of an Islamist movement ousted from Mogadishu in a war over the New Year. more >>
06 February 2007
Six weeks ago Ethiopia invaded Somalia. In a matter of days, Ethiopian and allied Somali forces routed the Islamic Courts Union, a coalition of Islamists whose Jihadist rhetoric and expanding rule Ethiopia deemed a regional security threat. In their place in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, Ethiopia helped install an allied UN-backed transitional government. more >>
06 February 2007
A heavy-duty truck carrying a dozer has fallen 40 meters into Gibe River, taking down with it the entire bridge in a manner experts believe is the first in bridge history. One of the four people inside the truck had been pronounced dead at the scene. more >>
By William Wallis in London
06 February 2007
As leader of the most powerful and populous country in the Horn of Africa, Meles Zenawi has found it relatively easy to forge strong alliances with the west. more >>
06 February 2007
The official exchange rate for buying cash notes and transactions of one USD reached nine Ethiopian birr for the first time. more >>
By Tedla Yeneakal - Capital
06 February 2007
The Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA), is set to float a tender within the next month for construction of a 4.32km road project on Africa Avenue, stretching from Bole International Hotel to Meskal Square and comprising of overpasses with eight lanes. more >>
By James Butty Washington, D.C.
05 February 2007
Ethiopia says it is not torturing supporters of the opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) who are being held in prison. The Ethiopian government also repeated its allegations against bitter rival Eritrea of plotting to bomb Addis Ababa during the African Union summit last week. In a statement late last week, Amnesty International accused Ethiopia of holding CUD supporters in incommunicado. Amnesty also said the prisoners may have been torture. more >>
By William Wallis in Addis Ababa
05 February 2007
Ethiopia is working closely with the US to identify Islamist combatants killed in neighbouring Somalia, but there has been no confirmation yet of the death of targeted al-Qaeda suspects, according to Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia's prime minister. more >>
By Dann O’Werre in Kigali
05 February 2007
Kenya men posted an easy 80-54 win over Ethiopia in their opening Zone Five All Africa Games qualifying match at the Amahoro Peti Stadium. more >>
04 February 2007
Addis Ababa, (WIC) - Ethiopia would be 100 percent electrified by 2015,the year set to achieve the MDGs,the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) disclosed. more >>
04 February 2007
Ethiopia has earned 434.6 million U.S. dollars in revenue from the export of various products during the first six months of the current budget year ( July 8, 2006-July 7, 2007), the Ministry of Trade and Industry said Saturday. more >>
04 February 2007
Africa will in May launch a continental diplomatic passport to be issued to heads of state and government, ministers, ambassadors and leaders of African institutions, it was learned on Saturday. more >>
04 February 2007
STUTTGART, Germany - Meseret Defar set a women's world record in the indoor 3,000 meters Saturday in a race in which the top two runners broke the old mark by more than 4 seconds. more >>
03 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia would be one of the top ten travel destinations for 2007, the web-based travel publicist Frommer’s Travel Guides said in a latest guide posted on its website. more >>
03 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA - The 8th African Union (AU) Summit has called upon African countries to join Ethiopia in celebrating the upcoming New Millennium, Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin said. more >>
By: John Wenz
02 February 2007
Marc and Nick Francis want you to know that globalism is unfair.
They drive that point home in "Black Gold," a free-form documentary interspersing scenes of impoverished Ethiopian coffee farmers with western taste for the beans culminating in a World Trade Organization mini-protest. more >>
02 February 2007
MAKALLE – The 1,428th anniversary of the arrival of Seid Ahmed Nejash to the historical town of Negash was observed Tuesday in the presence of over 20,000 Muslims. more >>
By Sahal Abdulle
02 February 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Top Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed -- seen by Washington as a potential key to reconciliation in post-war Somalia -- was out of custody in Kenya on Thursday and reported to be leaving soon for Yemen. more >>
The Associated Press
02 February 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Ethiopia's government said Thursday it had foiled a bomb attack by bitter rival Eritrea against an African leaders summit. more >>
By William Wallis in Addis Ababa
01 February 2007
The US believes militant Islamists from the ousted coalition that held sway over parts of southern Somalia may be regrouping in Saudi Arabia, Eritrea and also Yemen, Jendayi Frazer, US assistant secretary of state for Africa, said yesterday. more >>
01 February 2007
As expected, the UN will reduce the size of its peacekeeping force on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. The Security Council voted on January 30 to cut the number from 2300 to 1700 troops. more >>
01 February 2007
Complications during delivery are a leading cause of death for women giving birth in developing countries. In remote areas, women sometimes languish in labor for days. Those who survive the ordeal often endure a lifetime of agony from severe internal injuries. more >>
01 February 2007
SANAA, (IRIN) - Yemeni authorities deported 122 illegal migrants from Ethiopia along with 129 Somalis on 30 December, an official at the Immigration Authority said on condition of anonymity. This news ended a month’s speculation over the whereabouts and condition of these asylum seekers. more >>
Aweys Osman Yusuf
01 February 2007
Addis Ababa ( Sh.M.Network) - The Ethiopian military troops formally handed over piles of weapons seized form the defeated Islamists to the transitional government in Kismayu, about 500 km (310 miles) south of the capital Mogadishu on Wednesday. more >>