30 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - An Ethiopian opposition party called on Monday for an official probe into what it said was a massacre of 400 women and children in the west of the Horn of Africa nation. more >>
29 June, 2008
Zimbabwe election officials have begun announcing results from the presidential poll, saying they indicate a landslide win for Robert Mugabe. more >>
26 June, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council considered on Monday a plan to disband its peacekeeping mission to the volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia after Eritrea forced most of its troops to go home. more >>
24 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Over a quarter of Ethiopia's HIV/AIDS patients on drugs are not taking their medicine because of logistical problems but also due to religious beliefs, the head of a treatment body said on Tuesday. more >>
23 June, 2008
THE HAGUE - Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has taken refuge at the Netherlands embassy in Harare, a spokesman for Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime Verhagen said Monday. more >>
23 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (PlusNews) - Whenever Bellatu Bakane goes to her local market in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, she can't help but feel frustrated. more >>
21 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (IPS) - When it was announced last month that the ruling party of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had swept local polls in this vast Horn of Africa nation, few expressed surprise. more >>
21 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: Opposition politicians are forming a party similar to the alliance that presented the most credible challenge to date to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's 17-year hold on power, the party's leader said on Friday. more >>
21 June, 2008
GENEVA (AFP) - The United Nations refugee agency said Friday that Egypt had not given its staff full and free access to Eritrean asylum seekers despite earlier pledges, and that deportations were still continuing. more >>
20 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia accused some aid agencies on Friday of exaggerating the impact of a drought afflicting the country to raise money under false pretences. more >>
18 June, 2008
The once famous architectural marvel in Addis Ababa, Bedilu Building, has been put up for auction after the owners failed to pay back their loan to the Construction and Business Bank (CBB). more >>
18 June, 2008
Ethiopian authorities have announced to lift a ban on importation of cement, which has been in place since February this year. more >>
18 June, 2008
Tshwane, South Africa - More than three weeks after beginning, South Africa's xenophobic attacks continue as the nation's leaders urge communities to begin bringing African immigrants from other countries back into their communities. more >>
18 June, 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 on Wednesday. more >>
16 June, 2008
Derba-MIDROC Cement Plc, a subsidiary company of MIDROC Ethiopia, has suspended construction work on a cement factory because of financial constraints. more >>
16 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia plans to develop its vast coal reserves in the west of the country for fertilizer and power generation, at an estimated cost of $730 million, its trade and industry minister said on Monday. more >>
14 June, 2008
A woman walks slowly down a track between eucalyptus trees. On her back is a boy, his head emaciated and swollen. She is just one of several hundred mothers who have walked for hours to find help. But her son, whose name is Tareknge, is starving. more >>
14 June, 2008
DJIBOUTI (AFP) - Skirmishes between Djibouti and Eritrea over the ownership of the strategic Ras Doumeira areas have halted, the Djiboutian military said Friday, as the French military announced surveillance along the tense frontier. more >>
13 June, 2008
France says its troops are providing logistical, medical and intelligence support to Djibouti in the country's confrontation with Eritrea. more >>
12 June, 2008
Ethiopia's Dire Tune set a new world record in the one-hour run during the Golden Spike Grand Prix meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, Thursday. more >>
11 June, 2008
DJIBOUTI (AFP) - Two Djiboutian soldiers were killed and 68 others wounded during a battle with rival Eritrean forces on their disputed border, a diplomat told AFP Wednesday, a day after the clash. more >>
10 June, 2008
The century old traditional house of Dejazmach Ayalew Emiru is to be handed over to Liya Kebede, a super model residing in New York. more >>
10 June, 2008
KHARTOUM - More than 100 people were killed when a Sudan Airways plane caught fire after veering off the runway at Khartoum airport in poor weather Tuesday, Sudanese national television said. more >>
10 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia is to bolster its defence budget by 50 million dollars "for stability reasons" amid tension in the Horn of Africa region, according to a draft budget presented to parliament Tuesday by Finance Minister Sufian Ahmed. more >>
10 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP)--The U.S. on Tuesday pledged $70 million in food aid for Ethiopia where 4.5 million people are in need of emergency food aid. more >>
10 June, 2008
The British government is to give a further £10m in aid to help severely malnourished children in Ethiopia, Douglas Alexander has announced. more >>
10 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia plans to increase budget spending in 2008/09 (July/June) by 21 percent to 54.3 billion birr, Finance Minister Sufian Ahmed told parliament on Tuesday. more >>
09 June, 2008
It is a strange and unsettling ride west from the Ethiopian town of Shashamene. The fields are vibrant green. There is water in the creeks. The soil is a deep rich burgundy. more >>
09 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia said on Monday it planned to produce biofuels to cut high oil import bills, but dismissed fears the strategy could hit food production in a country suffering a severe drought. more >>
08 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia and southern Sudan signed a cooperation agreement in order to promote transport, education and economic development in the border areas. more >>
08 June, 2008
WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton has thrown her full support behind Barack Obama, as she unequivocally endorsed the Democratic White House presumptive nominee and vowed to do all she could to make her former foe president. more >>
08 June, 2008
He'll likely speak about new economic opportunities in the Gambella region of Ethiopia -- preaching to the region's diaspora, former residents now living in Calgary, the virtues of returning to the East African nation. more >>
07 June, 2008
Oslo, Norway - For the second straight year, the ExxonMobil Bislett Games - ÅF Golden League - played host to a new women’s 5000m World record. This time around, it was Tirunesh Dibaba smashing the record that her compatriot Meseret Defar smashed last year. more >>
05 June, 2008
Officials in Ethiopia have refuted reports by international media on the current food crisis as bogus and exaggerated. more >>
05 June, 2008
AXUM, Ethiopia — Ethiopia on Wednesday began work to relocate the famed Axum obelisk at its original site, seven decades after the 1,700-year-old treasure was removed by Italian troops, a UN expert said. more >>
04 June, 2008
KOGELO, Kenya (AFP) - Scores of jubilant villagers trooped to Sarah Obama's home in western Kenya Wednesday to savour her grandson's victory as US Democratic Party presidential nominee. more >>
03 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia said on Tuesday that 4.5 million of its people needed emergency food aid -- more than 1 million more than an earlier estimate of 3.4 million. more >>
03 June, 2008
Dubai: Dubai-based real estate firm Middle East Development expects to begin work next year on a $200 billion project to build the first bridge across the Red Sea linking Yemen and Djibouti, and new cities on both sides. more >>
03 June, 2008
ADDIS ABABA - Authorities closed 16 cooking oil factories in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Tuesday after eight people were killed and scores sickened by food cooked with contaminated oil. more >>
01 June, 2008
Addis Ababa - The famous American Actor, Chris Tucker is thinking to do a movie in Ethiopia, his favorite African country where he considers as “a second home”. more >>
01 June, 2008
Johannesburg - Police in South Africa on Saturday said the number of people killed in xenophobic attacks that have swept through the country has risen to 62. "This has raised the earlier toll of 56 dead. A total of 670 have been injured," police spokeswoman Sally de Beer said, adding some of those injured had died in hospital. more >>