31 January, 2010
Telegraph.co.uk - British aviation lawyers have launched their own investigation into last week's Ethiopian airliner crash and are examining similarities with Kenya Airways disaster less than three years ago more >>
31 January, 2010
Euronews - The African Union’s annual summit in Ethiopia has got off to bad start for Libya’s leader Muammar Gaddafi. He has failed in his attempt to stay on as chairman of the bloc for another year after African leaders chose Malawi’s president to succeed him. more >>
28 January, 2010
BEIRUT (AP) – International ships searching along Lebanon's coast detected signals from the black boxes of an Ethiopian Airlines jet late Wednesday as DNA tests helped identify several victims, including two children whose remains were pulled from the sea. more >>
26 January, 2010
BEIRUT (Reuters) – The pilot of an Ethiopian airliner that crashed off the Lebanese coast did not respond to a request to change direction before contact was cut, the Lebanese transport minister said on Tuesday. more >>
25 January, 2010
BEIRUT (AP) – An Ethiopian Airlines plane carrying 90 people caught fire and crashed into the sea minutes after taking off from Beirut early Monday, setting off a frantic search as passenger seats, baby sandals and other debris washed ashore. more >>
25 January, 2010
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AFP) – An Ethiopian airliner transporting 92 passengers and crew crashed in stormy weather following takeoff in Lebanon early Monday, plunging into the Mediterranean sea, an airport official told AFP. more >>
25 January, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation rose to 7.1 percent in December from 0.6 percent in November on the back of rising fuel, food and construction material prices, the statistics office said on Friday. more >>
23 January, 2010
The Economist - WORRIES about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-giving Western governments hope it will pass off without the strife that followed the last one, in 2005, when 200 people were killed, thousands were imprisoned, and the democratic credentials of Meles Zenawi, despite his re-election, were left in tatters. more >>
21 January, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia denounced on Thursday a rights group report that accused it of cracking down on the opposition and restricting the work of aid agencies ahead of national elections in May. more >>
20 January, 2010
NAIROBI (AFP) – The livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans around the world's largest desert lake will be wrecked by an Ethiopian dam on the lake's main tributary, conservationists said. more >>
15 January, 2010
Volvo Trucks has signed an agreement to deliver trucks to Derba Cement in Ethiopia. The customer is aiming to buy approximately 1000 trucks and an order has been placed for 550 trucks to be delivered during 2010. more >>
14 January, 2010
BBC NEWS - A new hydroelectric plant has been inaugurated in Ethiopia - part of a controversial project on the Omo River. more >>
14 January, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines hopes to boost profits this year by taking advantage of growing ties between Africa and China and India, adding new routes to the Asian powers, Chief Executive Girma Wake said on Thursday. more >>
10 January, 2010
Mail and Guardian - At noon every Sunday an old Toyota sedan donated by supporters of Ethiopia's most famous prisoner pulls up near a jail on the outskirts of the capital. A 74-year-old woman in a white shawl and her four-year-old granddaughter -- the only outsiders the prisoner is allowed to see -- step out for a 30-minute visit. more >>
08 January, 2010
Democratherald - Albany City Manager Wes Hare is back from three weeks in an Ethiopian city, where he assisted in improving public sanitation facilities and in developing a waste disposal system. more >>
06 January, 2010
KONSO, Ethiopia (AFP) – Women jump up in their fluffy orange cotton skirts, waggling their shoulders at men who are swift to join the dance, sporting white feathers in their hair and shepherd's crooks in their hands. more >>
04 January, 2010
guardian.co.uk - Old truck tyres never die, they just turn into sandals. For decades that has been the tradition in Ethiopia, where everyone from farmers to guerrilla fighters has fashioned worn-out road rubber into cheap, long-lasting footwear. more >>
04 January, 2010
(Bloomberg) -- The National Bank of Egypt plans to invest at least $40 million to grow “strategic” crops in Ethiopia for export to Egypt, Al Alam Al Youm newspaper reported, citing the bank’s Chairman Tarek Amer. more >>
04 January, 2010
CNN - The Arab emirate's colossal, multibillion-dollar skyscraper, Burj Dubai, opens for business Monday, stretching 168 stories and 2,684 feet into the desert sky. more >>
02 January, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – It's a far cry from Ethiopia's traditional Eskista shoulder shake dance, but Salsa is sweeping Addis Ababa with aficionados twirling and spinning their way across the city's dance floors each night. more >>