June 29, 2006
Banjul, Gambia, 06/29(AP) - African Union (AU) member states owe the continental body about 93 million US dollars in contribution arrears, according to a draft report by the ordinary session of the contribution sub-committee. more >>
June 28, 2006
The new leader of the Islamist group that controls much of southern Somalia
is a threat to Ethiopia, says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys was head of al-Itihaad al-Islamiya, a group accused
of having links to al-Qaeda. more >>
June 27, 2006 (ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday accused arch-foe Eritrea and Somali Islamists of destabilizing the Horn of Africa and warned his country would defend itself against any threat. more >>
June 27, 2006
The country’s first state-of-the-art flower farm facility, already incorporating four growers and seven breeders, will be inaugurated on July 1, 2006, by Girma Birru, minister of Trade and Industry, and high profile personalities from Kenya, company sources said. more >>
June 26, 2006
By Reuben Olita in Nairobi
ETHIOPIAN Airlines said last week that it would petition Kenya’s transport
ministry over Kenya Civil Aviation Authority’s (KCAA) delay in offering them
landing rights at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. more >>
June 26, 2006
Ethiopia said Friday it will continue to "observe closely the developments in Mogadishu and remain vigilant to protect its territory from any threat of crossing its border."
In a weekly statement, Ethiopia's Ministry of Information said Ethiopia reiterates the urgency for ensuring a lasting peace and assisting the legitimate Transitional Federal Government of Somalia through the concerted efforts of Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), African Union (AU), the Arab League and the international community at large. more >>
June 24, 2006
In a country whose number of car accidents and loss of life is dreadfully larger than the number of cars on the streets (170,000 and increasing at 10pc a year), a new element is added in to the whole saga: the use of mobile phones while driving. The Traffic Department has yet to compile its data linking accidents to mobile use, but our staff writers, Derese Nigatu, Wudineh Zenebe, Habte Tadesse and Tagu Zergaw, attempted to shed some light on the extent of the problem. more >>
June 23, 2006
A Swedish cameraman has been shot dead during a huge rally in the Somali
capital, Mogadishu, held to back Thursday's peace agreement.
A BBC correspondent says a lone gunman shot the Swedish man in the heart,
in the middle of a crowd of thousands. more >>
June 23, 2006
The Oromia Investment Commission is to grant Ethiopia’s flagship company, the Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL), a 238,000sqm plot near the town of Dukem to build a dry port facility that will also be used by Comozar (PTY) Ltd, the South African company that won a 25-year concession to run the Ethio-Djibouti Railway Enterprise. more >>
June 21, 2006
ADDIS ABABA - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi signed an agreement yesterday to donate the 200,000 dollars award he received from the Yara Foundation, to be used for the effort aimed at expanding education opportunity for rural women. more >>
20 June 2006 - From remote camps to big cities, from the steaming lowlands of Liberia to the high plateaux of Afghanistan, from floodlit fountains to fashion shows and soccer matches, the United Nations today celebrated World Refugee Day with a message of “Hope” broadcast around the globe by leaders, film stars and refugees themselves. more >>
June 20, 2006
Ethiopia said Monday it is currently hosting over 100,000 African refugees.
They are from Somalia, Sudan, Eritrea and other African countries, said Ethiopia's Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs, the country's watchdog for foreign refugees. more >>
June 19 ,2006
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia wishes to point out the following with respect to the latest and ongoing developments in Somalia: more >>
Sunday 18 June 2006
The Islamist alliance that has taken control of key areas of Somalia has said new fighting may occur if Ethiopia refuses to withdraw its troops from the country. more >>
17 Jun 2006
By Andrew Cawthorne
JOWHAR, Somalia, June 17 (Reuters) - About 300 Ethiopian troops crossed into Somalia on Saturday, a top Islamist said, after Islamic fighters who wrested control of Mogadishu moved inland toward the seat of Somalia's interim government.
Ethiopia immediately denied sending soldiers in but warned the Islamists not to cross the border, where reports say Ethiopia has been massing soldiers for days. more >>
June 17, 2006
On July 2nd, 2006, the Ethiopian American Council (EAC) will hold a forum on " Protecting the Democratic rights of the Ethiopian People: Reflection and Next Steps" at Hilton Los Angeles Airport, 5711 West Century Boulevard Los Angeles California. more >>
Friday, june 16 2006
Africa’s representation in the 2010 World Cup, to be staged in South Africa, looks endangered, with world governing body Fifa likely to reduce the number of the continent’s qualifying participants from five to four. more >>
Friday, june 16 2006
By Katie Nguyen
Nairobi - Eritrea has quit talks over the contentious marking of its border with Ethiopia, saying it did not accept changes proposed by a boundary commission and would not participate in negotiations to discuss them.
The so-called proposed amendments to the demarcation directions angered Eritrea, which refused to meet the commission on Thursday. more >>
By Martin Plaut
BBC Africa analyst
A commission that is attempting to end the border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea is holding crisis talks in the Netherlands after Eritrea decided to boycott any further meetings to discuss the issue. more >>
Thursday, 15 june 2006
NAIROBI, 15 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of showing no interest in resolving an ongoing dispute over the border between the neighbouring Horn of Africa nations. more >>
Wednesday, 14 june 2006
The Education Media Agency (EMA) has approved the screening of the 18th World Cup at 450 schools across the country that have plasma screen televisions.
The screens have been prepared for this purpose by the joint efforts of experts from the Ethiopian Radio and Television Enterprise, the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) and Ethiopian Television (ETV). more >>
Wednesday, 14 june 2006
After months of negotiations with the Ethiopian government, the World Bank has finally come up with a formula on how to support Ethiopia. Disappointed with what it felt was a "deterioration in governance quality" since Ethiopia's post election crises, and unwilling to disengage at the same time, the Bank's board of directors decided last month to release 215 million dollars to support an interim programme now known as Protection of Basic Services (PBS). It is a two-year programme with "ambitious goals" and part of the 491 million dollars the Bank is prepared to outlay to Ethiopia this fiscal year.
Under PBS, the 215 million dollars (the first 90 million dollars has been transferred to the government coffer last week) has to go for basic health, education and water services at the local level, and it should come in addition to what the government intending to put in those sectors, according to Ishac Diwan, country director of the World Bank to Ethiopia and Sudan. In an exclusive interview he gave to Tamrat G. Giorgis, our managing editor, Mr. Diwan said this fund has to respect fairness and should be distributed without any corruption. more >>
Tuesday, 13 june 2006
ADDIS ABABA - Education Minister Dr. Sintayehu Wolde-Michael says that peace education is one of the most significant ways to promote a culture of peace, which is an agenda of all people and governments throughout the ages.
Dr. Sintayehut was opening an international conference titled “Strategies for Peace with Development in African; the role of Education, training and research,” at the African Union here yesterday. more >>
12 June 2006 – The presidents of Nigeria and Cameroon today signed an agreement settling a decades-old, sometimes violent, border dispute over the oil-rich Bakassi Peninsula following intensive mediation over the weekend by United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan, seeking to avert a potential crisis flashpoint in already troubled West Africa. more >>
Monday, 12 June 2006
Amber Henshaw
BBC, Addis Ababa
At least 14 people have been killed in western Ethiopia when a passenger bus was ambushed by armed attackers.
Police confirmed the bus was on its way from the capital Addis Ababa to Gambella some 700km to the west when it was ambushed near the village of Bonga. more >>
June 11, 2006
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia has participated in nine international exhibitions hosted by a number of countries over the past ten months, the Ministry of Tourism and Culture announced. These events provided a venue to promote the country’s tourism resources to a global scope, it said. more >>
June 09, 2006
Addis Ababa - Ambassador of Belgium to Ethiopia said the launching of Ethiopian Airlines’ (EAL) flight to the Belgian capital, Brussels, the EU capitol, would open new chapter in the Ethio-Belgian political, economic and social ties.
Ambassador Fredrick Renard said the service would consolidate the trade and investment relations of the two countries. more >>
June 08, 2006
832 participants from 80 countries gathered at the first „eLearning Africa“ conference from May 24 – 26 in the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, making it the largest event on educational technologies and development ever taking place on the continent. more >>
June 7, 2006
No. 15/06
ADDIS ABABA (U.S. Embassy) -- The U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) today awarded a grant to the College of Communications and Information Technology (CTIT) in Ethiopia to promote economic growth in Ethiopia through the expansion of the nation’s capacity to develop its telecommunications sector. The $169,520 (over 1,400, 000 birr) grant will support an advanced training program for management professionals of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Agency (ETA) and the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) on a variety of telecommunications issues, including policy development, regulatory reform and financial/tariffing procedures. more >>
June 07, 2006
ADDIS ABABA, 06/07 - Ethiopia said Tuesday it has lost more than 100 million U.S. dollars every year through illicit trading of live animals with neighboring countries.
Over 323,800 oxen and cows, more than 1.1 million goats, over 150,000 sheep, at least 16,000 camels and over 300,000 hides and skin have been illegally traded annually across the Somalia, Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan borders, said Belachew Hurisa, an expert with Ethiopia`s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development. more >>
June 06, 2006
A British citizen, who works from New York, came over here on a working visit sometime ago, she was dumfounded to learn that the front desk at the hotel she stayed in, Meridian Hotel, off Africa Avenue (Bole Road), refused to accept some of the dollars notes she had, while they seemed to not have problems with others. more >>
June 06 2006
Addis Ababa - The Green Awards Programme gave awards to organizations, associations and individuals for their significant contributions to environmental protection activities at the national level.
The awardees were organizations, associations and individuals engaged in soil conservation, afforestation, biodiversity development, and waste recycling among others. more >>
June 06 2006
Asmara - The United States has warned US citizens against visiting Eritrea after authorities in the often-secretive East African nation slapped new in-country travel restrictions on foreigners.
The State Department advised Americans to defer all non-essential travel to Eritrea, citing the new rules that were imposed amid heightened border tensions with its arch-rival neighbour Ethiopia. more >>
Saturday 3 June 2006
New York, USA - With a scorching 61-second last lap, Ethiopia’s Meseret Defar shaved 0.15 seconds from Turkish Elvan Abeylegesse's World 5000m record of 14:24.68 when she ran 14:24.53** tonight, at New York City's Icahn Stadium.
With a view of the Manhattan skyline from the stadium on Randall's Island in the East River, Defar was paced by Irina Vashchuk and U.S. miler Christin Wurth-Thomas. The conditions were overcast and cool, and barely a trace of rain after several showers before the meet; while the sprinters were grumbling about the cool temperatures, the distance runners thrived. more >>
By Ashenafi Abedje
Washington, DC
02 June 2006
listen
to the interview with DAS Donald Yamamoto 
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Donald Yamamoto has just returned from a four-nation trip to east and central Africa. His visit included discussions of domestic and regional issues with leaders in Kenya, Rwanda, Ethiopia and Chad. Earlier this week, the US official wrapped up a two-day visit to Ethiopia that included what he calls “very positive” talks with the Ethiopian government focusing on border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea and political and economic reforms. more >>
June 02, 2006
ADDIS ABABA –State Minister of Information Tesema Fote stressed that public relations officers need to provide information to the media.
The State Minister made the remark yesterday at the 2nd regular meeting of federal government offices PR officers and state media forum organized by the Ministry of Information. more >>
June 01, 2006
ADDIS ABABA — The business community, and governmental and non-governmental organizations were urged to actively involve in the expansion of information and communication technologies (ICT) as they are essential to creating new trade opportunities. more >>