31 July, 2008
afrol News - The Ethiopian government has secured a US $7.5 million pilot programme agreement today to address gender equality and women empowerment for the next three years. more >>
31 July, 2008
Eritrea says the UN's decision to end the peace mission on its border with Ethiopia will not make war likely. more >>
30 July, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council voted unanimously Wednesday to end the UN monitoring of the festering border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia but urged the bitter rivals to refrain from any use of force. more >>
30 July, 2008
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is backing a new project in drought-hit southern Ethiopia that will ensure child labourers in the impoverished region can attend school. more >>
30 July, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's export revenues hit a record $1.5 billion in 2007/08 (July-June), just shy of the official target, while the import bill was $4.7 billion, a top trade official said on Wednesday. more >>
29 July, 2008
The Japanese construction firm, Kajima, is near to closing the four-metres gap on the newly constructed bridge over Abay River, 208Km north of Addis Abeba. more >>
29 July, 2008
(ADDIS ABABA) — The Ethiopian government has strongly opposed the request of arrest warrant by the international criminal court (ICC)against Sudanese president, Omar Hassen Al-Bashir, over genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur on July 14. more >>
29 July, 2008
Football's world governing body, Fifa, has suspended the Ethiopian Football Federation with immediate effect. more >>
28 July, 2008
Khadra Mohammed, First Lady of Djibouti, has received the 20 hectares of land in the Sebeta area for a flower farm, on Tuesday July 22, 2008 from Alemu Sime, Investment Bureau Head of the Oromia Regional State. more >>
28 July, 2008
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Global Energy (OTCBB:GEYI - News), an alternative energy innovator, announced today that its subsidiary, Global Energy Ethiopia (GEE), has successfully completed sowing 5,000 hectares of Chinese hybrid castor seeds for its alternative energy project in Ethiopia. more >>
27 July, 2008
TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran on Sunday hanged 29 men convicted of offences including drug trafficking, murder and rape in the largest mass execution in years as the country says it is fighting increasing crime. more >>
25 July, 2008
China says it will guarantee clean air for the Olympics after marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie said he would not compete in the Olympic marathon because of air pollution. more >>
25 July, 2008
AN Auctioneer in Towcester has sold a 14th-Century Ethiopian Prayer Book for 40 times its estimated value. more >>
23 July, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - When Haile Gebrselassie was taking distance running to new levels a decade ago few could have imagined that even before he had retired he would be eclipsed by another Ethiopian, Kenenisa Bekele. more >>
22 July, 2008
DJIBOUTI (AFP) - A hardline Somali Islamist accused of ties to Al-Qaeda claimed leadership of the country's fractured opposition on Tuesday, highlighting a bitter power struggle within the movement. more >>
22 July, 2008
OTTAWA - After 18 months of fruitless effort, Canadian officials in Ethiopia have succeeded in visiting a former Toronto man held under mysterious circumstances in an Addis Ababa jail. more >>
22 July, 2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund on Monday urged "forceful" policy tightening in Ethiopia to reduce inflation, as high oil and food prices also strain balance of payments. more >>
21 July, 2008
The slender stone columns which mark the tombs of ancient kings and nobles still stand in a green field at the edge of the modern town of Axum. more >>
21 July, 2008 Capital
President Ismael Omar Guelleh of Djibouti is set to invest in the agriculture sector after receiving a large tract of land estimated to be over 7,000 hectares in Bale, Oromia Regional State. more >>
20 July, 2008
The term world music suggests sounds that are esoteric and unfamiliar -- neither of which applies to Ethiopiques.
(Ethiopiques will be appearing at New York's Lincoln Center on August 20 and at the Festival of World Cultures, Dun Laoghaire, Ireland on August 22.) more >>
18 July, 2008
QUNU, South Africa (AFP) - Nelson Mandela, the icon of the anti-apartheid movement and South Africa's first black president, celebrated his 90th birthday Friday as tributes poured in from around the world. more >>
18 July, 2008
ADDIS ABABA — A new UN report released on least developed countries (LDC) on Thursday said that with the continuing economic growth it is registering, Ethiopia in 25 years will be ranked among the middle income countries of the world. more >>
17 July, 2008
Leading flower grower, Sher Karuturi, says that it will soon enter the food production sub-sector, with plans to establish extensive rice and wheat farms in Ethiopia already at an advanced stage. more >>
16 July, 2008
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - Belgium's government collapsed Tuesday, unable to resolve an enduring divide over more self-rule for the country's Dutch and French-speakers. The gap was so wide the premier suggested the end of Belgium as a country was looming. more >>
15 July, 2008
The Ethiopian government has floated a tender in South Africa, searching for suppliers of 30,000tns of maize, sources disclosed. more >>
15 July, 2008
Owners of major businesses grouped into five sectors have began raising funds that would be used in financing the construction of a headquarters and a training center for the ruling Revolutionary Democrats. more >>
14 July, 2008
THE HAGUE (AFP) - The International Criminal Court's top prosecutor Monday sought the arrest of Sudan's President Omar al-Beshir for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur. more >>
13 July, 2008
Suspects of terrorist bombings have been seized over the past months at a few places in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, said federal police on Saturday. more >>
13 July, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia said Sunday it maintained healthy ties with Sudan after accusations that its troops had crossed their common frontier, killing 19 people. more >>
13 July, 2008
Chinese top legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday pledged to increase exchanges and cooperation with the Ethiopian parliament. more >>
13 July, 2008
KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan vowed on Sunday to guarantee foreigners' safety as around 1,000 protesters slammed the United States and International Criminal Court for an expected indictment of their head of state. more >>
12 July, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Drought-ravaged Ethiopia should improve its "backward" farming systems to curb acute food shortages, which have left millions of people in need of urgent humanitarian aid, a top World Bank official said more >>
11 July, 2008
THE HAGUE (AFP) - International Criminal Court prosecutors will seek the arrest of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir for war crimes in Darfur, it emerged Friday, prompting Khartoum to threaten peace efforts in the region. more >>
11 July, 2008 Written by Mammo Muchie
Ethiopia is one of the oldest most suffering nations in this planet. It went through hell in the Second World War under Mussolini’s fascist aggression. more >>
10 July, 2008
BRUSSELS (IPS) - Aid given by the European Union to Eritrea may be helping to prop up a hugely repressive regime, human rights activists have claimed. more >>
10 July, 2008
As clarified in our previous communications, there is no good-faith territorial dispute between Eritrea and Djibouti. Eritrea harbours no territorial ambitions, or claims whatsoever, on Djibouti. more >>
10 July, 2008
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) - Egyptian police shot and wounded an Ethiopian man on Wednesday as he tried to cross the border illegally into Israel, a security official said. more >>
Increases of up to 25pc and suddenness of the announcement stunned Ethiopian authorities Fortune
08 July, 2008
There will be a new set of tariff rates to be applied to all services at the Port of Djibouti, beginning mid-August 2008, DP World Djibouti announced. more >>
07 July, 2008
(JUBA) - The semi autonomous Government of Southern Sudan has reached a number of bilateral cooperation agreements with the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and to jointly implement development projects in their respective adjacent states and regions. more >>
07 July, 2008
TOYAKO, Japan (AFP) - African Union Commission chief Jean Ping was rushed to hospital Monday in Japan where he was attending a summit with the Group of Eight powers on the plight of the continent, officials said. more >>
07 July, 2008
The Ethiopian government has been notified by its Djiboutian counterpart, as per their bilateral agreement, that it is to increase tariffs by up to 15% on various facilities the Port of Djibouti renders, as of August 15 more >>
06 July, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - The National Flag Day, Ethiopia’s historic event, was celebrated colorfully here on Saturday through out the country. more >>
06 July, 2008
AXUM, Ethiopia – “And they shall make an ark of acacia wood; two and a half cubits shall be its length, a cubit and a half its width, and a cubit and a half its height.” more >>
04 July, 2008
LONDON (Reuters) - Miruts Yifter startled his opponents before confusing the statisticians with his 5,000-10,000 double at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. The Ethiopian shot to victory in both races with an unstoppable late surge over the final 200 meters. more >>
04 July, 2008
JEDDAH: Drivers and housemaids are to be recruited from Ethiopia within the next two months at monthly salaries of SR700 and SR800 respectively, Al-Watan newspaper reported. more >>
04 July, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Donors funding Ethiopia's programmes to cut poverty said on Friday they would provide $847 million in 2008/09 for projects such as free education and distribution of insecticide-treated bed nets. more >>
03 July, 2008
Shenzhen, China – ZTE Corporation ("ZTE"), a leading global provider of telecommunications equipment and network solutions is exclusively developing Ethiopia's nationwide network to cover 14 major cities in Ethiopia, including Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. more >>
02 July, 2008
If violating the no smoking signs on board public planes and operating portable electronic device, the new proposed Civil Aviation Proclamation states that, the person will be liable to stiff fines of up to 15,000 ETB or a term of imprisonment not exceeding two months. more >>
01 July, 2008
New York – Ethiopia’s government should immediately abandon plans to impose strict government controls and draconian criminal penalties on nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International said today. more >>
01 July, 2008
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The Netherlands' Foreign Ministry says Zimbabwe's opposition leader has left the Dutch Embassy in Harare. more >>