31 July, 2007
Chinese Jiangsu Qiyaan Investment Group is to construct the first private industrial zone in Dukem, Oromia Regional State, on five square kilometre leased plot. more >>
By Joe De Capua - VOA News, Washington
31 July, 2007
On July 20th, the Ethiopian government announced the pardons of 38 opposition leaders and activists, many of whom had been sentenced to life in prison. They had been convicted in connection with political violence that erupted after the 2005 parliamentary elections. more >>
31 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A U.N. elections consultant told an Ethiopian treason trial on Tuesday two anti-poverty activists charged with trying to overthrow the government had been acting within the law. more >>
30 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian opposition officials told a court on Monday that two anti-poverty activists on trial for allegedly trying to overthrow the government were never members of their movement. more >>
30 July, 2007
Ethiopian Airlines this month signed an agreement with Boeing Capital Corporation (BCC) for the purchase of one MD-11 freighter aircraft, the airline told The Reporter. more >>
by Emmanuel Goujon
28 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia has never forgotten its boy prince, captured by the British Army and taken to England where he died more than a century ago, a lonely, royal orphan and curiosity who still lies entombed in Windsor Castle. more >>
By Ayanawo Farada Sanbetu www.haaretz.com
27 July, 2007
The price of teff - the grain used to make injera, a pancake-like bread that is a staple for Ethiopian immigrants - has risen sharply in recent months, causing hardship to many families. more >>
26 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian opposition leaders accused the government on Thursday of waging an "intensive propaganda campaign" against them through state media, less than a week after being freed in a clemency deal. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
26 July, 2007
Peace Ethiopia Messenger of Peace Youth Association (PEMPYA) in its millennium recognition program, held on Wednesday 19 July, 2007, awarded Sheik Mohammed Al-Alamoudi, making him the only business person to receive this award. more >>
By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer
26 July, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya - Eritrea has secretly supplied "huge quantities of arms" to a Somali insurgent group with alleged ties to al-Qaida in violation of an international arms embargo and despite the deployment of African peacekeepers, U.N. arms experts have concluded. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
25 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Five opposition members imprisoned since 2005 pleaded guilty Wednesday to attempting to overthrow Ethiopia's government, but asked the judge for a pardon. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
25 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The Ethiopian regional government that ejected the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from the restive Ogaden region said on Wednesday it repeatedly warned the aid agency against consorting with rebels. more >>
25 July, 2007
The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights today welcomed the recent pardon and release of over three dozen political leaders and activists in Ethiopia and urged fair proceedings for dozens of other defendants still on trial. more >>
By Jim Snyder
25 July, 2007
Despite the Ethiopian government’s decision last week to release 38 leaders of an opposition party from prison, Congress must still pass a bill that ties that country’s human-rights record to U.S. aid, say Ethiopian-Americans who have lobbied for the measure. more >>
25 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia on Tuesday gave the Red Cross one week to leave the Ogaden region in the country's volatile east, accusing the aid group of talking to rebels operating in the area. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
24 July, 2007
Ethiopia's opposition leaders, freed from jail last Friday, have now had a few days to enjoy their freedom. more >>
24 July, 2007
For the second time in Ethiopia’s history, the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) is to print memorial coins made of gold and silver at a cost of close to one million Birr to honour the new Ethiopian Millennium. The Bank will invite international companies for the coin minting. more >>
23 July, 2007
An international company of technology solutions for the financial services industry, i-flex, introduced a software, FLEXCUBE, which is built to run retail and corporate banking, treasury, investment and even mutual fund operations, at a workshop given to leaders of the local Banks on Wednesday. more >>
23 July, 2007
Kobil Ethiopia, a new entrant into the nation’s oil industry and a subsidiary of the Kenya-based Kenol Kobil, is poised to capture 10 percent of the country’s steadily growing oil market during the next fiscal year more >>
20 July, 2007
Thirty Ethiopian opposition leaders have been pardoned and freed from prison just days after being given life sentences over election protests. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
20 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Friday freed 38 opposition members sentenced to jail this week for treason, inciting violence and trying to overthrow the government, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said. more >>
By Dan Robinson - Washington, VOA News
19 July, 2007
A U.S. congressional panel has approved legislation aimed at supporting democracy and human rights in Ethiopia, sending the bill to the House Foreign Affairs Committee. VOA's Dan Robinson has this report from Capitol Hill. more >>
18 July, 2007
Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian Board of Pardon has begun looking into the plea for pardon made by the leaders and members of the CUD who were convicted and sentenced of charges of treason in connection with the unrest that followed the May 2005 elections. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
17 July, 2007
As a result of the Nile Initiative dialogues among the ten riparian countries of the Nile River, Ethiopia secured funding and a green light to start an irrigation project on 20,000 hectares using the Nile River. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
16 July, 2007
In a consulting room at the Black Lion teaching hospital in Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, a pregnant woman lies on a couch, while an ultrasound image is taken of her baby. more >>
16 July, 2007
The head of the European Union 2005 election observers in Ethiopia has said she is "appalled" at the life sentences given to 30 opposition leaders. Ana Gomes told the BBC the sentences were "farcical" and "inhumane" and urged the EU to seek their release. more >>
by Aaron Maasho
16 July, 2007
KALITI, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia's high court on Monday sentenced 35 opposition leaders to life imprisonment for inciting rebellion, after the prosecution had asked for the death penalty. more >>
by Aaron Maasho
16 July, 2007
BADME, Ethiopia-Eritrea border (AFP) - Stuck in the limbo of the bitter border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the town of Badme strives to grow even as fresh conflict brews. more >>
14 July, 2007
Sentencing due on Monday 16 July, 2007
The Federal High Court is expected to pass a sentence next Monday against the jailed CUD leaders and other defendants whom it convicted of, among others, the crimes of outrage against the constitution and obstruction of the exercise of constitutional powers on a ruling it passed on June 11. more >>
14 July, 2007
The last fifteen years have seen a speedy rise in the ethnic diversification of the Addis Ababa University (AAU) student community with an increasingly more and more nations and nationalities being represented, observed Anteneh Tsegaye, a graduate of Pedagogical Science and an AAU lecturer at a panel discussion held Tuesday evening at the university. more >>
13 July, 2007
Gulf Air and Ethiopian Airlines have entered a strategic code-sharing agreement opening up routes and services to each other in their respective networks effective July 1, this year. more >>
Supreme Court Sentenced Former Senior Gov’t Officials, Businessmen
12 July, 2007
Seeye Abraha, former strongman of the TPLF, made his way out of jail on Wednesday, June 11, after spending six years there, accused of involvement in grand corruption. He was released a day after the Federal Supreme Court sentenced him for five years imprisonment and 500 Br fine. more >>
12 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Floods caused by abnormally heavy rains have affected nearly 7,000 people in southern Ethiopia, disaster officials said here Wednesday. more >>
Xan Rice, east Africa correspondent - The Guardian
12 July, 2007
Eritrea has arrested the acting head of the British Council in the capital, Asmara, and refused a British diplomat permission to leave the country following a row over a satellite internet link. more >>
11 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian scientists said on Tuesday they have discovered hominid fossil fragments dating from between 3.5 million and 3.8 million years ago in what could fill a crucial gap in the understanding of human evolution. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
10 July, 2007
In a study conducted on the Addis Ababa City’s Land Administration by the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption, notable personalities were found immersed in land related corruption, Ali Souleman, Commissioner of Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission said. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
10 July, 2007
This year’s nine months total of foreign currency obtained from export items such as oilseeds, gold and other items that do not belong to major export items declined by 33.5 mln USD, when compared to the same period performance last year. more >>
FRED OLUOCH reports - www.nationmedia.com
09 July, 2007
WHILE THE REST OF THE world celebrated the turn of the millennium seven years ago, Ethiopia will mark the year 2000 on September 12. Both the UN and the African Union have recognised the Ethiopian millennium as a unique African occasion, dubbing it an “African Millennium.” more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
09 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopian prosecutors on Monday asked for the death penalty for 38 politicians and activists accused of inciting violence in an attempt to overthrow the government. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
09 July, 2007
As they turned up in court, expecting to hear their fate, Ethiopia's 38 detained opposition leaders put on a show of bravado. The CUD leader and principal accused, Hailu Shewal, flaunted a scarf in the colours of the Ethiopian national flag. more >>
09 July, 2007
Addis Ababa, Seeking the backing of the African Union in its bid for a permanent seat in the UN Security Council, India has welcomed the efforts of the 53 countries of the continent to evolve a common polity on major international issues. more >>
Story by ELIAS MAKORI - Nation Media
07 July, 2007
A lot of stories have been told about Tirunesh Dibaba’s early life, but two truly stand out as most memorable. more >>
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07 July, 2007
Dr. Desalew Mekonnen, a first-year medical resident at Black Lion Hospital in the Ethiopian capital, mulled over a patient's electrocardiogram and frowned. more >>
By James Butty - Washington, D.C. www.voanews.com
05 July, 2007
In the past weeks there has been conflicting information about the fate of 38 Ethiopian opposition leaders jailed since that country’s 2005 election. They were convicted last month on charges of high treason and are scheduled to be sentenced sometime this month. more >>
05 July, 2007
Addis Ababa - In what is regarded a milestone move as part of efforts to vitalizing their amicable relations and partnership, Ethiopia and India signed on Thursday pacts for cooperation in five sectors. more >>
05 July, 2007
Addis Ababa, In an effort to boost their economic ties, India and Ethiopia will sign a Bilateral Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (BIPPA) today when External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee holds talks with his counterpart Seyoum Mesfin here. more >>
05 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - The first of 700 refugees from the Kunama ethnic group displaced by Ethiopia and Eritrea's 1998-2000 border war are being sent to the United States for resettlement, the U.N. refugee agency said on Wednesday. more >>
04 July, 2007
The summit of African leaders ends in Accra, Ghana today amid deep divisions over the creation of a single government for the continent. more >>
04 July, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - An appeal case against a life sentence handed to Ethiopia's former dictator Mengistu Haile Marian opened here Tuesday with prosecutors seeking a harsher sentence. more >>
03 July, 2007
The new Jijiga Airport launches operation today, Sunday, July 1, 2007, landing its first aircraft from Abyssinia Air Service. more >>
03 July, 2007
(DJIBOUTI) - The ship Christianised "Gibe" arrived to the Port of Djibouti on June 21, 2007, almost a week late. more >>
03 July, 2007
(MOGADISHU) — The government of Eritrea has warned the Somali Transitional Federal Government to be vigilant about the Ethiopian army intervention in Somalia, although Somali government considers this intervention as military cooperation. more >>
02 July, 2007
As the 3rd Ethiopian Millennium is approaching fast attempts at bringing world leaders and artists is being conducted by several organs working on the celebration of the historic occasion, sources told Capital. more >>
02 July, 2007
A man jumped to his death from the roof of the city’s tallest 22-story building onto the concrete roof of the fourth floor around noon the previous Thursday. more >>
By Jenny Deam - Denver Post Staff Writer
02 July, 2007
From its tiny headquarters in Denver, a little-known international charity has taken aim at transforming an educational system, healing social ills and championing human rights in Ethiopia. more >>
02 July, 2007
The Minister of External Affairs of India, Pranab Mukherjeee, is scheduled to pay an official three day visit to Ethiopia as of Wednesday. more >>