30 June, 2009
There was considerable confusion last week when the leader of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church apparently told an Italian news agency of an upcoming announcement about the possible public display of the Ark of the Covenant – the box holding the Ten Commandments – and then the prescribed time passed with no word. more >>
30 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A draft Ethiopian law could define criticism of the government as a "terrorist act" and be used to crack down on the opposition if it is passed by parliament, a rights group said on Tuesday. more >>
30 June, 2009
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's Islamist rebels threatened on Tuesday to attack Ethiopia after repeated witness reports that Ethiopian troops were back in the chaotic Horn of Africa country they withdrew from in January. more >>
26 June, 2009
BBC NEWS - News of pop star Michael Jackson's death has been greeted with a mixture of disbelief and sadness across Africa. more >>
25 June, 2009
Washingtonpost - The United States has sent a shipment of weapons and ammunition to the government of Somalia, according to a U.S. official who said the move signals the Obama administration's desire to thwart a takeover of the Horn of Africa nation by Islamist rebels with alleged ties to al-Qaeda. more >>
23 June, 2009
FT - Boeing has been forced to postpone the first flight of its troubled 787 Dreamliner, its flagship new aircraft development programme, after discovering a weakness in the structure of the jet. more >>
23 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's annual inflation rate fell to 14.2 percent in May from 23.4 percent in April, in line with slowing inflation around the east African region, the government said on Tuesday. more >>
23 June, 2009
FT - Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister and one of Africa’s more prominent leaders on the world stage, says he is preparing to step down more >>
23 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Crops in large swathes of Ethiopia risk being destroyed by swarms of locusts coming from northern Somalia, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said Tuesday. more >>
22 June, 2009
(Bloomberg) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the World Bank and international donors share the blame for nationwide power cuts that led the government to trim its economic growth forecast. more >>
20 June, 2009
BBC NEWS - The speaker of Somalia's parliament has called for neighbouring states including Kenya, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Yemen to send troops to the country within 24 hours. more >>
20 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has confirmed its first cases of H1N1 flu virus, Health Minister Tewedros Adhanhom said on Friday. It was the second country after South Africa to report the deadly flu. more >>
19 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Oil seed exports overtook coffee as Ethiopia's biggest foreign exchange earner in the 11 months to May, the agriculture ministry said on Friday. more >>
18 June, 2009
BBC NEWS - One in four men in South Africa may have raped someone - with most of those attacking more than one victim, data from a new survey suggests. more >>
18 June, 2009
MOGADISHU (AFP) – Somalia's security minister was among 20 people killed Thursday in a suicide bombing that the country's leaders have blamed on Al-Qaeda affiliated insurgents. more >>
17 June, 2009
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) – Iran accused the United States on Wednesday of "intolerable" meddling in its internal affairs, alleging for the first time that Washington has fueled a bitter postelection dispute. Opposition supporters marched in Tehran's streets for a third straight day to protest the outcome of the balloting. more >>
17 June, 2009
VOA - The Chairman of Ethiopia's independent Human Rights Council and former Supreme Court justice Abebe Worke along with VOA Amharic service reporter Meleskachew Ameha appeared at a pre-trial hearing Wednesday in an Addis Ababa, Ethiopia court. more >>
15 June, 2009
Addis Ababa (Fortune) - Investigators from the Revenues & Customs Authority (RCuA) made a series of arrests saying that they are in hot pursuit of a ring of businessmen allegedly involved in massive tax evasion. more >>
15 June, 2009
RSF - Radio Erena (“Our Eritrea”), a Tigrinya-language station broadcasting by satellite to Eritrea, began operating today in Paris, five days ahead of World Refugee Day. more >>
15 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A group of men accused of plotting to topple Ethiopia's government were tortured in prison during lengthy interrogations, relatives said on Monday. more >>
11 June, 2009
The World Food Prize - The 2009 World Food Prize will be awarded to Dr. Gebisa Ejeta of Ethiopia, whose sorghum hybrids resistant to drought and the devastating Striga weed have dramatically increased the production and availability of one of the world’s five principal grains and enhanced the food supply of hundreds of millions of people in sub-Saharan Africa. more >>
09 June, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR(Reuters) - Ethiopian Airlines will take all 10 of the Boeing (BA.N) 787 Dreamliners it has ordered, its CEO said on Tuesday, and may buy more planes as it sees medium-term growth of 20 percent in revenues and passengers. more >>
08 June, 2009
washingtonpost - A stowaway who apparently hid aboard a flight from Ethiopia to Washington was found in the plane's baggage hold by workers at Dulles International Airport, authorities said last night. more >>
07 June, 2009
Following the recent publication of erroneous information regarding the alleged European Investment Bank decision not to finance the Gibe 3 project in Ethiopia, the EIB would like to confirm that, as of today, the Bank has not taken any formal decision on whether to undertake an appraisal of this project. more >>
07 June, 2009
CAIRO (Reuters) - Ethiopia expects economic growth to slow to 10 percent in the current fiscal year from 11.6 percent a year earlier, while inflation should dip into single digits by 2009/10, its finance minister said on Sunday. more >>
05 June, 2009
VOA News - Ethiopia, already among the poorest countries, has suffered a series of recent economic setbacks, forcing officials to take drastic countermeasures to avoid a financial meltdown. more >>
04 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia on Thursday charged 46 people, most of them ex-military, of plotting to assassinate government officials, a government spokesman said. more >>
03 June, 2009
Addis Ababa (Fortune) - Toyota automobile plunged into a ravine on the night of May 23, 2009, at around 7:30pm, not far from the CMC residential complex, in front of Yetebaberut Gas station. more >>
03 June, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group on Wednesday warned international oil companies against exploring in a region of the Horn of Africa nation where the rebels attacked a Chinese-run field in 2007 killing 74 people. more >>