28 February, 2009
(CNN) -- Somali President Sharif Sheikh Hassan said Saturday he will give in to a rebel demand that he impose Islamic law, or sharia, in an effort to halt fighting between Somali forces and Islamic insurgents. more >>
25 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian tax-free exports to the United States more than doubled to $18 million last year from $8.9 million in 2007, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) said on Wednesday. more >>
24 February, 2009
Al Jazeera - People & Power investigates the destruction of Ethiopia's once beautiful Lake Koka and the tragic effects this is now reaping on the local population. watch videos >>
23 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines said on Monday it was cutting flights to the United States and China as the global financial crisis hit passenger numbers. more >>
23 February, 2009
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court is expected to announce next month that it will issue an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. more >>
23 February, 2009
LONDON (AFP) – Binyam Mohamed, an Ethiopian-born former British resident, returned to Britain from the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay on Monday, alleging he had been "tortured in medieval ways". more >>
21 February, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Nigerian man has been charged with trying to swindle nearly $27 million from a Citibank account in New York held by Ethiopia's central bank. more >>
20 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has set aside 8 billion birr to construct new roads and upgrade dilapidated ones in 2009, a government official said on Friday. more >>
20 February, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia urged Japan to lift a ban on imports of its coffee, saying the Horn of Africa country has taken measures to prevent pesticide contamination that led Japan to halt purchases last year. more >>
18 February, 2009
BBC News, Addis Ababa - Ethiopia's most famous pop singer, Teddy Afro, has had his sentence for
manslaughter reduced on appeal.
He was jailed for causing the death of a young homeless man through dangerous
driving and failing to stop at the scene of the accident. more >>
18 February, 2009
LONDON (Reuters) - Nigeria and Ethiopia topped a new index of African potential investor destinations on Wednesday, with the survey organisers saying the continent offers good potential growth even against the global economic crisis. more >>
17 February, 2009
TOKYO (AP) – Japan's finance minister resigned in disgrace Tuesday after slurring his speech and nodding off during the G-7 summit in Rome last weekend in yet another political distraction as the world's No. 2 economy battles an ever-deepening recession. more >>
17 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Tuesday it planned to obtain trademark rights for two coffee brands, originating in its Limu and Lekempte regions, to ensure the fine beans are sold only by licensed distributors. more >>
17 February, 2009
Addis Fortune - The over two million Birr worth makeover of the city bus terminal in Merkato, commonly known as Adarash, has been finalized after a delay of nearly one and half months from the intended date of completion. more >>
15 February, 2009
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Afriquejet - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Friday he was in consultations with his ruling party about the possibility of quitting as Prime Minister and retaining his role as the party leader after next year's elections. more >>
15 February, 2009
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) - Ethiopia on Sunday launched laid the foundation stone for the construction of a $22 million new international stadium, the Co-ordination Committee of the stadium said. more >>
14 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has said the arrest of the country's opposition leader was not a political decision, arguing the authorities were left with no other choice. more >>
14 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's high rate of inflation will be back to single figures by June or July this year, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said. more >>
14 February, 2009
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (ECA) -- The Governance and Public Administration Division (GPAD) of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) announces the creation of an e-discussion group on anti-corruption. more >>
13 February, 2009
HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition said on Friday it doubted its unity government with President Robert Mugabe would extradite Ethiopia's former Marxist ruler Mengistu Haile Mariam, who has asylum there. more >>
13 February, 2009
KHL Group - The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has awarded China's Sinohydro Corporation a ETB 502.8 million (US$ 45.8 million) contract to upgrade and repair a 100 km-long road linking Ethiopia and southern Sudan. more >>
13 February, 2009
NAIROBI (AFP) – Somalia's new president on Friday named Omar Abdirashid Sharmarke, a Canadian-Somali national, as the war-torn country's new prime minister. more >>
11 February, 2009
HARARE (AFP) – Morgan Tsvangirai vowed to rebuild Zimbabwe's shattered economy and to end political violence, as he became prime minister Wednesday in a unity government with long-time rival President Robert Mugabe. more >>
11 February, 2009
BBC NEWS - Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi has said he would like a United States of Africa to include "Caribbean islands with African populations". more >>
10 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Income from Ethiopian flower exports has reached only 60 percent of a targeted $298 million over the last 18 months as the global recession hits the sector, a senior government official said on Tuesday. more >>
08 February, 2009
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) - The election of the Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi as chairman of the African Union during the just ended AU summit in Addis Ababa has been received here with mixed reactions. more >>
08 February, 2009
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Digital X-rays have turned Lucy, perhaps the world's best-known pre-human, inside out, and may answer questions about how our ancestors came down from the trees and walked, scientists said on Friday. more >>
08 February, 2009
DUBAI Khaleej Times Online - DP World, one of the world’s largest port operators, on Saturday officially opened its new Doraleh Container Terminal in Djibouti, the largest and most modern terminal in East Africa. more >>
08 February, 2009
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Rebels fired mortar bombs at the presidential palace in Mogadishu Saturday hours after Somalia's new President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed returned to the capital following his election at U.N.-led talks in Djibouti. more >>
05 February, 2009
VOA News - Take care of yourself…and then accept yourself. That's the message of Sehin Belew, a former Miss Ethiopia who has been living in the United States for the past couple of decades. more >>
04 February, 2009
Times Online - The former Ethiopian dictator who slaughtered opponents on an industrial scale in the so-called "Red Terror" is to face justice after 17 years being sheltered by Robert Mugabe's regime in Zimbabwe. more >>
04 February, 2009
BBC NEWS - The new African Union (AU) chairman, Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi, has said that multi-party democracy in Africa leads to bloodshed. more >>
04 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A leading Ethiopian opposition politician was freed on bail on Wednesday after he was jailed last November after the government accused him of working with rebels, his party said. more >>
Since being feted by Tony Blair, Ethiopia's government has grown
increasingly intolerant of dissent – and the leader of its main opposition
party is paying the price.
By Daniel Howden
03 February, 2009
The Independent - Birtukan Mideksa has been sentenced to life in prison. She spends her days and nights in solitary confinement in a two-metre by two-metre cell. She cannot leave it to see daylight or even to receive visitors. Previous inmates say the prison is often unbearably hot. more >>
03 February, 2009
Rome, Italy (Avionews) - The occurrence happened this morning at Rome-Fiumicino's airport more >>
03 February, 2009
TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran said on Tuesday it has launched its first home-built satellite into orbit, raising fresh concerns among world powers already at odds with Tehran over its nuclear drive. more >>
02 February, 2009
Reporter - An Ethiopian pilot, Captain Abera Lemi, has established a domestic airline, called Air Ethiopia, which will provide passenger and cargo, ambulance, charter, scheduled and non-scheduled flight services. more >>
02 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders feted Somalia's new moderate Islamist president on Monday as a hope for peace in the anarchic nation but hardline former allies declared war on his government and called him a traitor. more >>
02 February, 2009
BBC NEWS - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has been elected as chairman of the 53-nation African Union. more >>
01 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - African leaders set aside the first day of an annual summit on Sunday to discuss Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's long-standing pet project to establish a United States of Africa. more >>
01 February, 2009
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Peacekeepers on Sunday said Sudan's government had asked them to withdraw from a rebel-held Darfur town, amid reports state troops were preparing to attack the settlement. more >>
01 February, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, (AFP) – The African Union's 12th summit opened Sunday in Ethiopia with an agenda officially focused on infrastructure development but overshadowed by conflict and hunger on the continent. more >>
01 February, 2009
After two years since Ethiopia-US alliance to oust Somali ‘Islamists’, today both Washington & Addis Ababa welcome return of ICU leader as president. more >>
01 February, 2009
MOLO, Kenya (Reuters) - The death toll from an oil spill blaze in central Kenya has risen to 111, making it one of the east African nation's worst disasters of recent times, police said on Sunday. more >>