By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa - VOA News
31 January, 2008
The political turmoil in Kenya has been the central theme at the opening session of an African Union summit in Addis Ababa. VOA's Peter Heinlein reports U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon leaves Friday for Nairobi to join efforts to calm Kenya's ethnic tensions. more >>
31 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kofi Annan suspended Thursday crisis talks aimed at ending Kenya's political crisis after an opposition lawmaker was shot dead by a policeman, triggering further clashes which killed at least two. more >>
Meles Zenawi thinks the west's attitude to Africa is unbalanced and unfair. But his country is being torn apart by human rights abuses
31 January, 2008
Western policy towards Africa is ill-informed and inconsistent. That's the message of Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, in his interview in the Guardian last week. And there's some truth in what he says. But Meles should be careful what he wishes for. more >>
30 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - The violence in Kenya triggered by last month's contested presidential elections has involved acts of "ethnic cleansing," the United States' top Africa envoy said Wednesday. more >>
29 January, 2008
In the latest developments of the National Bank of Ethiopia’s (NBE) phoney gold scandal, the Federal Police arrested four brothers for allegedly acting as accomplices to one of the suspects accused of swindling 158 million Br by supplying fake gold to the Bank. more >>
29 January, 2008
Professor Ephrem Isaak, a former professor at Harvard University and the leader of the Council of Elders, which made possible the release of CUD leaders after 18 months of detention, this week, said there had been set in motion a mediation process to resolve the Ethio- Eritrean conflict by elders from both sides. more >>
27 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kofi Annan on Sunday pushed for peace and talks between Kenya's feuding politicians as ethnic violence spread in western regions where the death toll from the past three days surpassed 100. more >>
27 January, 2008
Opposition parties have continued to voice bitter complaints as the deadline for voter registration for the upcoming local and by-elections draws to a close today. more >>
27 January, 2008
The national carrier Ethiopian Airlines has started an investigation into how two stowaways managed to board its Boeing 767 aircraft that flew from Addis Ababa to Washington DC on Tuesday evening, it was learnt. more >>
26 January, 2008
Western countries should stop trying to browbeat Kenya's warring political leaders into submission and do more in practical terms to prevent poverty, lack of opportunity, and Islamist terrorism from further destabilising the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has told the Guardian. more >>
24 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenya's feuding leaders shook hands and smiled Thursday after a landmark first meeting brought about by former UN chief Kofi Annan, a month after disputed presidential polls. more >>
23 January, 2008
ADDIS ABEBA -- Ethiopia is implementing an action plan against AIDS that sets 2010 as a target for providing free retroviral drugs to all HIV-AIDS sufferers who need them, a senior health official said Thursday. more >>
23 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — Ethiopia has reduced its child mortality rate by 40 percent over the last 15 years, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. more >>
23 January, 2008
Addis Ababa - The 1.4 billion Birr cement expansion project launched by Muger Cement Enterprise with an objective of minimizing the growing shortage of cement in Ethiopia would begin production by in March 2009, Enterprise Acting General Manager said. more >>
23 January, 2008
ASMARA (Reuters) - Distracted by Kenya and Somalia, the U.N. Security Council will make only a cursory effort to heal an Ethiopia-Eritrea border dispute on Friday at a vote on whether to extend a peacekeeping mission there, diplomats and analysts say. more >>
22 January, 2008
NEW YORK (AFP) - The US central bank slashed interest rates by an unprecedented three quarters of a point Tuesday to try to prevent the US economy falling into recession but failed to stem global stock market turmoil. more >>
21 January, 2008
CHICAGO (AFP) - US researchers said Monday they have conclusive proof to show that women who drink a lot of caffeine on a daily basis in the early months of pregnancy have an elevated risk of miscarriage, settling a longstanding debate over the issue. more >>
21 January, 2008
After the National Electoral Board (NEB) decided in favor of Ayele Chamiso and awarded the party’s name, ‘CUDP’ to his group, Birtukan’s group, which is forming a union with parliamentarians led by Temesgen Zewdie (MP), is considering forming a new party and obtaining a new name, Birtukan Mediksa told Capital. more >>
19 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Half of Ethiopian women are victims of domestic violence, the country's justice minister Dimegn Wube said in a statement received by AFP Saturday. more >>
Executive Director, Inter Africa Group - Ethiopian Reporter
19 January, 2008
"While I agree that there is lack of tolerance and polarization in this country, I wouldn’t say it is so static that one should give up hope". Ato Tamirat Kebede is executive director of the Inter Africa Group, a local civil society organization engaged in promoting democracy. more >>
18 January, 2008
Haile Gebrselassie ran the second fastest marathon in history, 2.04.53, to win the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on Friday morning, but a suicidal early tempo by the Ethiopian and his pacemakers ruined any chance he had of breaking his own World record of 2.04.26, set in Berlin three months ago. more >>
By Peter Heinlein Gode, Ethiopia - VOA News
18 January, 2008
Ethiopia says it has detained some American and European citizens on suspicion of terrorist activities in the restive Southeastern region known as the Ogaden. VOA's Peter Heinlein has details from the Southeastern Ethiopian town of Gode. more >>
17 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan police battled demonstrators in opposition strongholds with live rounds and tear gas for a second consecutive day Thursday, and the opposition accused police of killing seven protesters. more >>
16 January, 2008
JURIST Guest Columnist Abigail Salisbury of the Mekelle University Law Faculty in Mek'ele, Ethiopia, says that although the vast majority of Ethiopians publicly denounce H.R. 2003, the so-called Ethiopia Democracy and Accountability Act now going through Congress that links nonessential US assistance to fulfillment of various human rights obligations, the spirit of the bill is correct... more >>
16 January, 2008
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian opposition party, whose leaders had been charged with treason, has lost the right to use its name after the country's election board decided on Wednesday to give the title to a splinter group. more >>
16 January, 2008
A one-year benzine purchase agreement was signed between Ethiopia and Sudan on Thursday after the two were on the verge of halting petroleum product imports from Sudan. more >>
15 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - India has agreed to give Ethiopia a $640 million credit out of a total $1.3 billion needed to boost Ethiopia's sugar production, officials from the two countries said on Monday. more >>
14 January, 2008
SANAA (IRIN) - Poverty-stricken African migrants - mostly from the Horn of Africa - have been streaming into Yemen for the past 16 years. Now the Yemeni government says, with its limited resources, it is no longer able to receive new arrivals. more >>
14 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - A prominent US-based human rights group called Sunday for Kenya to lift a ban on opposition rallies, as the nation braced for three days of opposition protests over disputed elections. more >>
The Web has become a powerful tool for democratization. By Paul Salopek chicagotribune.com
14 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - The man was nervous. He was afraid, he said, of the secret police. So he advised me to hire a random taxi. I was to park at a certain church. And there, I was to wait. A few minutes later he called again, this time on a different cell phone. He gave me directions to a nondescript house with an iron gate. more >>
11 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - China signed a deal with the African Union on Friday to build a $61 million convention centre at the organisation's headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. more >>
10 January, 2008
"Since the passage and implementation of more rigorous legislation, customs agents and border patrols throughout Europe have seized and destroyed thousands of bottles in the last four years illegally bearing the Champagne name, including product from the United States, Argentina, Russia, Armenia, Brazil and Ethiopia," said Bruno Paillard, Champagne producer and representative of the CIVC. more >>
10 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Africa will sustain an economic growth rate of 6.2 percent in 2008 despite an anticipated slowdown of the global economy, a United Nations report said Thursday. more >>
09 January, 2008
(IsraelNN.com) Workers in the Be’er Sheva cemetery discovered Tuesday that graves belonging to members of the Ethiopian community had been vandalized for the second time in two days. One of the graves that was vandalized belonged to Gavriel Dawit, a drowning victim whose body was recently returned to Israel in a deal with Lebanese terrorists. Another belonged to a mother of seven children who made aliyah (immigrated) to Israel. more >>
By Dr. Ahmed A. Moen Yemen Times
09 January, 2008
I have read your news article on the “Plight of the Ethiopian Refugees” in Yemen. I am saddened and outraged to know that the Yemeni authorities failed to understand the implications of the stand off and the historical linkage and affinity between Ethiopia and Yemen. more >>
09 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian scientist is preparing to launch a new tipple for those looking for a twist on the usual glass of the grape -- "wine" made from khat. more >>
09 January, 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations has diverted aid intended for refugees from anarchic Somalia to help Kenya, a country which until less than two weeks ago was widely seen as a bastion of stability in a turbulent region. more >>
08 January, 2008
Reporters Without Borders wrote to Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi yesterday asking him to reconsider the information ministry’s refusal to approve applications made by three journalists to register two new weekly newspapers, Lualawi and Habesha. more >>
08 January, 2008
A reassessment of U.S. policy toward Ethiopia is very much in order. A year has passed since Ethiopia intervened in Somalia, and its troops are bogged down there in an ongoing low-intensity conflict that has created a grave humanitarian crisis. The invasion appears deeply unpopular with the Somali people, and the tide of battle could yet turn decisively against the Ethiopians. more >>
07 January, 2008
Troubled by a 10pc annual increase of traffic accidents, legislators in Oromia Regional State enacted a new traffic regulation in July 2007: it bans the use of mobile phones and the consumption of stimulants such as Chat while driving, makes wearing seatbelts mandatory for drivers and increases penalties for existing violations. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne and Wangui Kanina
06 January, 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyans across the political divide prayed for peace on Sunday while aid workers sought to bring relief to nearly 200,000 refugees from post-election violence that has killed hundreds. more >>
06 January, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf arrived in London on Sunday from Addis Ababa for further medical checks, a Somali diplomat said. more >>
05 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Saturday said he was willing to form a government of national unity with the opposition during a meeting with US top diplomat for Africa, Jendayi Frazer. more >>
05 January, 2008
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali gunmen on Saturday kidnapped two Libyan diplomats in the capital Mogadishu, a Libyan diplomat and witnesses told AFP, the latest in surge of seizures of foreign nationals in the troubled African state. more >>
05 January, 2008
Somalia's interim President Abdullahi Yusuf has fallen ill and been flown to neighbouring Ethiopia for treatment. A BBC correspondent says Mr Yusuf, 72, collapsed on Friday morning in the seat of government, Baidoa. more >>
03 January, 2008
Asmara – President Isaias Afwerki today received and held talks at the Denden Hall with Mr. Donald Payne, Member of the House of Representatives in the US Congress. more >>
By PHILIP MWAIKO, Associated Press Writer
02 January, 2008
MOMBASA, Kenya - Amel Blouza came to Kenya expecting a holiday on white beaches and a safari with a chance to view elephants — or perhaps giraffes lumbering across the picture-perfect savannah. more >>
By Peter Heinlein - Addis Ababa VOA News
02 January, 2008
Ethiopia has denied licenses to three independent newspaper publishers who were jailed for 17 months in connection with media coverage of the country's 2005 post-election unrest. VOA's Peter Heinlein has details from the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. more >>
02 January, 2008
NEW YORK (AFP) - The price of oil on Wednesday hit 100 dollars a barrel for the first time in history, dealers said. more >>
01 January, 2008
NAIROBI (AFP) - EU monitors cast doubts Tuesday on the results of Kenya's disputed presidential vote, stepping up the pressure on re-elected President Mwai Kibaki as his country reels from violence that has claimed nearly 260 lives. more >>
By Tesfa-alem Tekle
01 January, 2008
(ADDIS ABABA) — The Ministry of Trade and Industry said some 443.7 million USD has been earned from exported items in the last five months. more >>
01 January, 2008
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is planning to launch a wireless broadband Internet service that would allow computers to surf the Web through the company’s cell phone network. more >>