31 January, 2009
DJIBOUTI (AFP) – Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on Saturday was elected Somalia's president, leaving him in charge of a fragile peace process aimed at ending 18 years of civil conflict. more >>
30 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - The number of Ethiopians who will require humanitarian assistance in the next six months has dropped, mainly due to recent food harvests, an official said. more >>
30 January, 2009
HARARE (AFP) – Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he will join a unity government with President Robert Mugabe, almost a year after disputed polls that plunged the country into crisis. more >>
30 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – The European Union has given Ethiopia 251 million euros (322 million dollars) in aid to boost development projects across the Horn of Africa nation, the government said Friday. more >>
29 January, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) — Google Inc. and two nonprofit partners Wednesday launched a Web site that lets consumers test their Internet connections to reveal possible interference and traffic management by service providers. more >>
29 January, 2009
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP)– Zimbabwe's government admitted defeat Thursday in a fight against dizzying inflation, allowing business to be done in U.S. dollars and bank notes of neighboring countries. more >>
29 January, 2009
Addis Ababa (BuaNews) - South Africa has opened a state-of-the-art embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which will be the new location for its embassy staff. more >>
27 January, 2009
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) – President Barack Obama chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, part of a concerted effort to repair relations with the Muslim world that were damaged under the previous administration. more >>
27 January, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – In only the second time in US medical history, a woman in California has given birth to eight babies, who remain in intensive care but are in a stable condition. more >>
27 January, 2009
BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - Somalia's hardline Islamist insurgent group al Shabaab introduced sharia law in Baidoa on Tuesday, a day after taking the town that had been a government stronghold and seat of parliament. more >>
25 January, 2009
Reporter - Teshome Niku, who was a reporter for the Amharic Reporter, fled the country because of repeated threats from men he did not know. more >>
25 January, 2009
BBC NEWS - Ethiopia says it has completed the withdrawal of its troops from Somalia, two years after entering the country to fight Islamist insurgents. more >>
25 January, 2009
SEATTLE (AP) – Who loves Lucy? Far fewer people than a Seattle science center hoped when officials paid millions to show the fossil remains of one of the earliest known human ancestors. more >>
25 January, 2009
Press Release - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) approved today a disbursement in an amount equivalent to SDR 33.425 million (about US$50 million) to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia under the rapid-access component of the Exogenous Shocks Facility (ESF). more >>
22 January, 2009
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Obama retook his oath of office Wednesday after Chief Justice John Roberts flubbed while delivering it at Tuesday's inauguration. more >>
22 January, 2009
CapitalEthiopia - Delay of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft delivery has caused Ethiopian Airlines to slow down negotiations it started to fly to Canada, Girma Wake, CEO of the flag carrier, told Capital. more >>
22 January, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopian produced 9.5 percent more cereals and pulses during last year’s main harvest as improved rains, increased fertilizer use and fewer pests boosted output, two United Nations food agencies said. more >>
20 January, 2009
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Barack Obama became the first black U.S. president on Tuesday, making history before a sea of people and declaring the United States in the midst of a crisis that can be defeated with a united sense of purpose. more >>
20 January, 2009
VOA News - A senior Ethiopian official says his government has a responsibility to maintain law and order and would not be swayed by outside criticism. more >>
19 January, 2009
Members of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church participate in celebrations for the Eve of Epiphany in Addis Ababa January 18, 2009. more >>
17 January, 2009
Usmagazine.com - President-elect Barack Obama admits that he's a bit nervous about his first day on the job. more >>
16 January, 2009
MOGADISHU (AFP) – "Our forces have taken control of areas deserted by the Ethiopians in order to maintain security," said Ise Ado, a spokesman for the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), at a press conference. The ICU is an Islamist movement which briefly controlled large parts of Somalia in 2006 before Ethiopian forces invaded and ousted them from power. more >>
16 January, 2009
NEW YORK (AP) – A US Airways plane crashed into the frigid Hudson River on Thursday afternoon after striking a bird that disabled two engines, sending 150 on board scrambling onto rescue boats, authorities say. more >>
13 January, 2009
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops supporting Somalia's Western-backed government quit four of their main bases in Mogadishu Tuesday, heralding an uncertain new chapter for the anarchic Horn of Africa nation. more >>
12 January, 2009
(VOA News) - A leading Ethiopian opposition politician, who was imprisoned for life last month after a dispute with the government, has ended a hunger strike and told relatives she wants to begin legal proceedings to win her freedom. more >>
12 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's coffee growers' association predicted on Monday a near-doubling of annual output to 600,000 tonnes by 2014 thanks to new investment for plantations in Africa's largest producer of the bean. more >>
11 January, 2009
(timesofmalta) - An Ethiopian Boeing 757 airliner made an emergency landing at Malta International Airport this morning after one of its two engines failed, sources said. more >>
11 January, 2009
MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Fighting between rival Somali Islamist groups and hardline insurgents on Washington's foreign terrorist list killed dozens of people north of the capital Mogadishu on Sunday, witnesses said. more >>
10 January, 2009
MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Five of the Somali pirates who released a hijacked oil-laden Saudi supertanker drowned with their share of a reported $3 million ransom after their small boat capsized, a pirate and port town resident said Saturday. more >>
09 January, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s leading opposition politician is in her 10th day of a hunger strike after she was jailed for life on Dec. 29 following a dispute with the government, according to her mother. more >>
09 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – The United States, Ethiopia's main donor, warned Friday that a new law adopted by Addis Ababa restricting foreign-funded aid groups may curtail its assistance. more >>
09 January, 2009
NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates said Friday they had freed a Saudi-owned supertanker, whose capture nearly two months ago caused panic in international shipping and spurred the world into tougher anti-piracy action. more >>
08 January, 2009
A crackdown has been launched in the Ethiopian capital on unlicensed parlours where boys and young men chew khat, a narcotic green leaf. more >>
08 January, 2009
In a bamboo and matting shelter on the edge of the town of Awassa, rows of tiny children are struggling with Ethiopia's fiendishly complicated Amharic alphabet. more >>
06 January, 2009
afrol News - Ethiopian government has revoked a pardon granted to a prominent opposition official, Bertukan Midekssa, after she failed to refute the foreign media reports that she never pleaded for a pardon. more >>
06 January, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s parliament ratified a law that critics say will prevent groups from promoting human rights and democracy in the Horn of Africa country, strengthening the government’s hand to crack down on dissent. more >>
06 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial bill imposing heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups operating in the war- and famine-ravaged country. more >>
05 January, 2009
Fortune - Ermias Zewde, 27, a blue-cab driver, works both day and night. Sometimes during the night he works as late as 3:00 to 4:00am since he started the job in the early months of 2001. more >>
05 January, 2009
Fortune - Emirates Airline recruited nine cabin crewmembers on December 1, 2008 from Ethiopia and will conduct its next recruitment in Addis Abeba in February 2009. more >>
03 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – The Ethiopian government on Saturday pledged not to leave a power vacuum when it completes its troop withdrawal from neighbouring Somalia in the coming days. more >>
02 January, 2009
BBC News - The Ethiopian army is preparing to leave Somalia almost two years after it invaded to oust Islamists who had taken control of large areas of the country. The Ethiopians are withdrawing without having broken the power of what Prime Minister Meles Zenawi described in 2006 as the leaders of the jihadist movement, responsible for "terrorist outrages". more >>
02 January, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia licensed $16 billion worth of new investments in 2008 compared with $11 billion in 2007, but only 20 percent of the investors began operations in the year, an investment official said on Friday. more >>