29 February, 2008
The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) has rejected a move by Fifa to reinstate the group's ousted president calling the decision biased and one-sided. more >>
29 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopian exports to the United States have doubled since 2005 under the AGOA trade pact the Horn of Africa nation joined seven years ago, the US embassy here said Thursday in a statement. more >>
29 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A new satellite programme beamed into Eritrea will offer people the chance to express opinions on the country's problems, the country's opposition has said from its Ethiopian base. more >>
28 February, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya's rival leaders signed Thursday a power-sharing deal brokered by former UN chief Kofi Annan to end a bloody two-month political crisis that has split the nation along ethnic lines. more >>
27 February, 2008
Barack Hussein Obama, Jr.( born August 4, 1961) is the junior United States Senator from Illinois and a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2008 U.S. presidential election.
Born to a Kenyan father and an American mother, Obama spent most of his childhood in Honolulu, Hawaii. From ages six to ten, he lived in Jakarta with his mother and Indonesian stepfather. A graduate of Columbia University and Harvard Law School, Obama worked as a community organizer, University of Chicago lecturer, and civil rights lawyer before running for public office and serving in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004. After an unsuccessful bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in 2000, he announced his campaign for U.S. Senate in 2003. more on Wikipedia >>
27 February, 2008
BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU competition regulators dealt a new blow to Microsoft on Wednesday, fining the US software giant a record 899 million euros for defying a landmark 2004 antitrust ruling. more >>
27 February, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - Dr. Abebe Yeshanew Climate Change and Air pollution Study Team Leader with the National Metrological Agency won the Norbert Gerbier–Mumm International Award for 2008. more >>
The Ethiopian News Agency
25 February, 2008
SAAFI Trading and Agro Industry PLC, Ethiopia’s second largest live animal exporting company, envisages to export 20,000 camels valued at six million USD abroad this year. more >>
25 February, 2008
A two-year-old picture of Barack Obama dressed in traditional Somali garb has sparked a new war of words between the Democratic presidential front-runner and rival Hillary Clinton, whose aides say they can’t confirm or deny whether her camp is the source of the photo. more >>
24 February, 2008
HAVANA (AFP) - Cuba marked a historic milestone in its communist revolution Sunday as Raul Castro took over as president from his brother Fidel, who ruled the island with an iron fist for almost 50 years. more >>
24 February, 2008
HAVANA (AFP) - Cuba will choose Fidel Castro's successor Sunday ending his near half century in power, as his brother Raul appears likely to take over and steer the country down a new but still communist path. more >>
23 February, 2008
Fake gold discoveries at NBE continue, By Hayal Alemayehu - Ethiopian Reporter
The office of the Prime Minister this week issued an order for the inspection of all gold bars inside the vaults of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) following the continued discoveries of fake bullion gold bars at the bank. more >>
23 February, 2008
Having heard all the parties gathered today (22 February) in Zurich, in the Home of FIFA, under the chairmanship of Mr. Issa Hayatou, FIFA Vice-president and CAF President, and Mr. Jerome Valcke, FIFA General Secretary, and having reviewed all the relevant documents, FIFA and CAF jointly decided to establish a road-map in order to normalise the situation of the EFF and to bring back unity within the Ethiopian football community. more >>
The pattern of genetic mutations offers evidence that an ancient band of explorers left what is now Ethiopia and went on to colonize most of the world.
By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
22 February, 2008
Scrutinizing the DNA of 938 people from 51 distinct populations around the world, geneticists have created a detailed map of how humans spread from their home base in sub-Saharan Africa to populate the farthest reaches of the globe over the last 100,000 years. more >>
By Patrick Worsnip
20 February, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. peacekeepers monitoring a border security zone between Eritrea and Ethiopia are regrouping in the Eritrean capital of Asmara after Eritrea cut off their fuel and food, U.N. officials said on Tuesday. more >>
20 February, 2008
Addis Ababa - A kidnap attempt by Sha'ebia intruders on Wednesday at a spot between Hamed Illa and Dalul areas of the Afar Regional State has been foiled, the joint anti-terror taskforce of the national intellegence, security service and the federal police disclosed. more >>
19 February, 2008
HAVANA (Reuters) - Raul Castro, Cuba's likely new leader after his ailing brother Fidel Castro bowed out on Tuesday, is a pragmatist more concerned with putting food on Cuban tables than spreading revolution abroad. more >>
19 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Over 300 police officers suspected of links with separatists rebels have been arrested in Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region as part of a government crackdown, state-media reported on Monday. more >>
18 February, 2008
By Dave Graham
BERLIN (Reuters) - Just before filming started on "Heart of Fire," most of the cast quit out of fear. Since completion, the movie has been under attack, its lead actress is seeking asylum in Europe, but the makers are unrepentant. more >>
17 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia urged the United Nations on Saturday to take strong measures against "rogue regime" Eritrea, which Addis Ababa said was undermining the world body by cutting off food supplies to its troops. more >>
17 February, 2008
PRISTINA (AFP) - Kosovo's parliament Sunday declared the province's independence from Serbia, giving Europe a new nation and marking an historic turning point in the volatile Balkans. more >>
17 February, 2008
BIRMINGHAM, England(AFP) - Ethiopia distance-running great Kenenisa Bekele added to his collection of notable landmarks by setting a new world-best performance mark in the two miles at the international indoor meeting here Saturday. more >>
15 February, 2008
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Specialty Coffee Association of America today announced that Ethiopia will be the featured Portrait Country Sponsor for the 20th Annual SCAA Conference & Exhibition to be held in Minneapolis next May 2-5, 2008. more >>
15 February, 2008
Addis Ababa - The Ministry of Information said that as long as Ethiopia is able to produce food crops in sufficient quantity, variety and quality sustainably, it can fully ensure food security within a short period of time. more >>
15 February, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations has begun moving its peacekeeping force acting as a buffer along the Eritrean-Ethiopian border from Eritrea to Ethiopia after Asmara cut off fuel supplies, the world body said on Thursday. more >>
13 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Pictures of emaciated children dying in their mothers' arms during Ethiopia's famine in 1985 cemented the country's image as a barren land where nothing grows. more >>
13 February, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - A new, privately-owned pay TV service by the name of GTV- Gateway Community Television (GTV) is poised to enter the broadcasting market with the main objective of educating and entertaining the Ethiopian public, its senior official said on Monday. more >>
12 February, 2008
Awash Bridge two weeks ago stretched by 20mm when a transformer four times heavier than its carrying capacity crossed it. The 213tns transformer with the capability to generate 540MW of electricity was intended for the Gilgel Gibe II Hydro Power Project that is being undertaken by the Italian construction firm Salini Custruttori SpA. more >>
11 February, 2008
ACCRA (AFP) - Egypt retained their African Nations Cup crown here Sunday when Mohamed Aboutraika scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Cameroon which also delivered a record sixth title. more >>
10 February, 2008
NAIROBI (IRIN) - Ethiopia experienced a record harvest during the meher season that runs from June and October but pockets of poor food production across the country have still left millions of people needing food assistance, according to a food security update. more >>
10 February, 2008
SEATTLE, United States (AFP) - Senator Barack Obama swept the board Saturday, pummeling Hillary Clinton in three Democratic nominating contests, as Republican Mike Huckabee gave John McCain a run for his money. more >>
By JOHN HEILPRIN, Associated Press Writer
09 February, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - In an unusual move, the United Nations is being forced to prepare an imminent pullout from Eritrea and plans to relocate all its peacekeeping troops there across the border in Ethiopia, senior U.N. officials and diplomats told The Associated Press on Friday. more >>
08 February, 2008
The new B737NG flight simulator enables Ethiopian to train its pilots at home base and to avail training for regional operators. Ethiopian Airlines, the aviation pioneer in Africa, purchased B737 Next Generation (NG) flight simulator from Flight Safety International (FSI), a company based in Oklahoma, USA. more >>
08 February, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Helicopters offered by Bangladesh to fill a vital need of peacekeepers in Darfur do not meet United Nations requirements but those offered by Ethiopia do, U.N. officials said on Thursday. more >>
07 February, 2008
Addis Ababa - The government of Ethiopia launched here on Thursday its first-ever National Nutrition Strategy (NNS), which will ensure that all Ethiopians secure an adequate nutritional status. more >>
07 February, 2008
New York, The Ethiopian government today reversed its decision last month to deny two journalists released from prison last year on pardon from launching new newspapers, according to local journalists. Three other journalists who were acquitted and set free last year remained blocked from launching their own publications. more >>
06 February, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Bangladesh have offered some of the helicopters the United Nations badly needs for a peace force in Darfur, diplomats said on Tuesday as signs emerged of modest progress on the lagging deployment. more >>
05 February, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrean opposition groups trying to bring down President Isaias Afwerki plan to set up a government in exile for the Red Sea state, an opposition leader said on Monday from the Ethiopian capital. more >>
04 February, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp offered to buy Yahoo Inc for $44.6 billion, in a bold bid to transform two ailing Internet businesses into a worthy competitor for market leader Google Inc. more >>
01 February, 2008
Dear Prime Minister,
CPJ - We are writing to express our great concern about the government’s denial of publishing licenses to five independent Ethiopian journalists freed last year from prison. We are calling on you to use all your influence to remove such administrative restraints, which contradict the government’s public assurances last year that former prisoners would be allowed to resume their work. more >>