29 July, 2009
In an unprecedented move ever, Ethiopian has placed an order for five B777-200LRs from the Boeing Company and twelve A350-900s from Airbus. more >>
29 July, 2009
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Obama administration on Wednesday criticized Eritrea for destabilizing activities in Somalia, warning it could soon face sanctions unless it stops support for Somali extremists. more >>
27 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield's exhibition match in Ethiopia has been postponed for September, his opponent Sammy Retta told AFP on Monday. more >>
27 July, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s inflation rate plunged to 2.7 percent in June after food prices, the biggest component in the consumer price index, declined. more >>
27 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – A Canadian citizen could face the death penalty in Ethiopia after a court found him guilty Monday of being a member of a rebel group fighting for autonomy for an ethnically Somali part of the country. more >>
25 July, 2009
Telegraph.co.uk - The three men were among a group of nine visitors who were staying with families in Hartlepool as part of a three-month visit to Britain. more >>
23 July, 2009
JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – A 13,700-kilometre (8,500-mile) undersea fibre-optic cable to provide high-speed Internet access on Africa's Indian Ocean coast went live on Thursday, its operator said. Connections linking Johannesburg, Nairobi and Kampala with the coastal landing stations have already been established, the company said, while final links to Kigali and Addis Ababa are underway. more >>
20 July, 2009
Capital - Teddy Afro should be released in a month after an appeal court upheld a decision to reduce his six year sentence to two years. more >>
18 July, 2009
BBC Sport, Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) has been readmitted to world football after elections for a new leadership were held on Saturday. more >>
15 July, 2009
BBC World Service - Two years after the installation of a solar power project funded by international aid groups, villagers in northern Ethiopia say the sun's energy has turned their lives around. more >>
14 July, 2009
TURMI, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia's Hamer people, a long isolated, pastoral warrior tribe, are increasingly opening up to tourists, a move some fear could endanger age-old traditions with too much exposure to foreign cultural influence. more >>
14 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia's currency, the birr, fell to its lowest ever rate Monday against the dollar, losing nearly 10% to exchange at 12.445. more >>
14 July, 2009
As U.S. companies begin exploring cloud computing this year, a school system on the other side of the globe has already leapt into the cloud. Ethiopia is rolling out 250,000 laptops to schoolteachers all over the country, all running on Microsoft's platform called Azure. more >>
11 July, 2009
Ethiopian is pleased to announce that it has been named the ‘Airline of the Year 2009’ at the African Business Awards organized by the London-based African Business and the Commonwealth Business Council (CBC). more >>
08 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi headed to the G8 summit in Italy on Wednesday to remind rich nations of the disproportionate impact on Africa of the world economic crisis and global warming. more >>
08 July, 2009
WASHINGTON, DC USAID - The U.S. Agency for International Development announced today the swearing in of Thomas H. Staal as its new Mission Director for Ethiopia. more >>
07 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday adopted a new anti-terrorism bill despite criticism by rights groups that the legislation violates civil liberties. more >>
05 July, 2009
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Hundreds of millions of fans across the world will bid a final farewell to Michael Jackson on Tuesday in a lavish memorial to the tragic "King of Pop" expected to bring America to a standstill. more >>
05 July, 2009
SIRTE, Libya (AFP) – The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan's president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new regional Authority. more >>
05 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Hundreds of women have rallied to demand the death penalty for a man who shackled a girl with dogs for 18 years and abused her, the Ethiopian News Agency (ENA) reported on Friday. more >>
05 July, 2009
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United States will encourage Ethiopia not to return to Somalia as it would be against the interests of both Horn of African nations, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Johnnie Carson said on Saturday. more >>
02 July, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopian police shot dead two people and injured six others as they blocked an attempt by Christians to build a church at a site also claimed by Muslims, a government spokesman said Wednesday. more >>