By MOHAMED OLAD HASSAN, Associated Press Writer
31 March 2007
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Fighting raged for a third day in the Somali capital Saturday as government troops and their Ethiopian allies continued a major offensive to quash a growing insurgency by Islamic militants. more >>
31 March 2007
Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian army has freed areas in Mogadishu City who were under control of insurgents, whom it said, were affecting the movement of the peacekeeping forces in certain places of the city by launching an offensive, the Ministry of Information said. more >>
By Sahal Abdulle
31 March 2007
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Rebels shot down a helicopter gunship in Mogadishu on Friday and Ethiopia said its forces had killed 200 insurgents in a two-day joint offensive with Somali troops against Islamists and clan militia. more >>
31 March 2007
Ethiopia said it has canceled plans to shut a camp used as a community center for 7,000 Ethiopian Jews seeking emigration to Israel. more >>
31 March 2007
Addis Ababa - US ambassador to Ethiopia, Donald Yamamoto called for the immediate and unconditional release of Ethiopians who were taken hostages by armed men from Afar State. more >>
30 March 2007
Ethiopia's travel agents and tour operators on Thursday called on the international community to strengthen pressure for the immediate release of the eight locals kidnapped in the northern state of Afar near the Eritrean border. more >>
29 March 2007
Addis Ababa (Angop) - Thousands of Angolans stopover every month in the Ethiopian capital en route to Dubai, Beijing (China), Thailand and Hong Kong, for business, informed the head of the consular sector of Angola in Ethiopia, Melo Ribeiro. more >>
29 March 2007
British, French and Italian ambassadors to Ethiopia on Tuesday requested for unconditional release of Ethiopians kidnapped in the northern state of Afar near the Eritrean border. more >>
By Alisha Ryu - VOA News, Nairobi
29 March 2007
The al-Qaida terrorist organization has issued a call for Islamic extremists around the world to come to the aid of Somalis fighting the country's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and its chief backer in the region, Ethiopia. more >>
By Amber Henshaw - BBC News, Addis Ababa
29 March 2007
Kamilat Mehdi, 21, had a bright future ahead of her. She dreamt about doing a degree and becoming an air hostess. All that changed one night when she was walking home from work with her two sisters and a stalker threw sulphuric acid in her face. more >>
29 March 2007
Ethiopian Airlines is proud to announce that it has successfully passed the IATA Operational Safety Audit (IOSA). The completion of the IOSA registration is a milestone for Ethiopian Airlines, and confirms the airline’s commitment to safety. more >>
By Ayanawo Farada Sanbatu, Haaretz Correspondent
29 March 2007
The Ethiopian government closed a camp in Gondar province used as a community center for approximately 7,000 Falashmura Ethiopians awaiting emigration to Israel. more >>
28 March 2007
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The worsening security situation in Somalia is being blamed on miscalculations by the Ethiopian government and the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) on the resilience of the Union of Islamic Courts. Also contributing to the situation is the apparent lack of determination of the African Union to take the necessary steps to maintain peace. more >>
28 March 2007
The Ethiopian team for the 35th IAAF World Cross Country Championships arrived in Addis Ababa on Monday night (26) to be greeted at the airport with flowers and a welcome address by the nation’s Minister of Sport, Youth and Culture, as well as the athletic federation’s president, Bisrat Gashawtena, who had flown home earlier after accompanying the athletes both in body and in spirit. more >>
28 March 2007
Adugna Community Dance, an organization that was started as an experimental project using children of the urban poor, held a dance show at the Addis Ababa City Hall on March 22, 2007. more >>
27 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (IRIN) - Eleven flood-prone areas in eastern Ethiopia's Somali region could be inundated as rains intensify in April and May, the national disaster management bureau has warned. more >>
By Andrew Heavens - Reuters AlertNet
27 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA - Kamilat Mehdi was walking home after dark with her two sisters when a man stepped out of the shadows and threw sulphuric acid in her face. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
27 March 2007
The ‘water tower’ of the horn of Africa, Ethiopia, celebrated the World Water Day (WWD) on March 22, 2007 with the theme “Coping with water scarcity”, which perfectly point to the water shortage the country is in. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
27 March 2007
The young talented vocalist, songwriter and producer Tewodros Kassahun alias Teddy Afro, is going to rock the town after the Easter holidays in his first show in two years. more >>
27 March 2007
Some 640 tons of obsolete chemicals have been shipped out of the country in the second round of the waste disposal project, Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development said Monday. more >>
26 March 2007
GENEVA (Reuters) - At least 29 people were killed and 71 reported missing after knife-wielding smugglers forced some 450 Somali and Ethiopian migrants into the sea off Yemen, the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday. more >>
26 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A mining company said on Monday it had found an estimated 10,000 tonnes of gold in southern Ethiopia that could be worth more than $1 billion. more >>
26 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Derba Midroc Cement and East Africa Holdings have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish a 60 million US Dollar joint venture company that will be exploring and developing coal. more >>
26 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Over 7.5 million Birr has been pledged in support of the completion of the new cardiac center, which is under construction by the Children's Heart Fund of Ethiopia (CHFE). more >>
25 March 2007
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: Saudi Arabia on Sunday beheaded a citizen convicted of murdering an Ethiopian taxi driver, the state-run news agency said. more >>
25 March 2007
(ADDIS ABABA) — The Ethiopian opposition parties have asked the Ethiopian government to continue with its ongoing diplomatic efforts to secure the release of the kidnapped Ethiopian. They further said that removing Eritrean government is not the responsibility of the government. more >>
24 March 2007
Addis Ababa - " I can't say the Horn of Africa is very stable and safe but I cannot say that it is deteriorating either," Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in an inverview with Al Jazeera TV on Thursday. more >>
24 March 2007
New York — The bureau of satellite television Al-Jazeera in the capital Mogadishu was indefinitely shuttered on Thursday following an order from intelligence officials of Somalia’s Ethiopian-backed transitional government, according to news reports. more >>
by Ali Musa Abdi
24 March 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Suspected insurgents shot down a cargo plane over Mogadishu on Friday, killing all 11 on board, during a third straight day of clashes with Ethiopian troops propping up the Somali government. more >>
23 March 2007
LEIDEN, The Netherlands - Dutch biotechnology company Crucell N.V. (Euronext, NASDAQ: CRXL; Swiss Exchange: CRX) today announced that children in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, have received their first dose of Quinvaxem(TM) vaccine. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
23 March 2007
The Addis Ababa Millennium Festival Secretariat is undertaking the construction of the biggest park in the country-Millennium Park, on 158 hectares in Yeka sub city and costing 100mln birr. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
23 March 2007
With the Memorandum of Understanding signed between Ethiopia and India last January, two government hospitals, the Black Lion and Nekemt hospitals, in collaboration with Ginos University of India, are to begin treating patients using telemedicine. more >>
23 March 2007
Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Addisu Legesse said Wednesday the government is committed to developing the horticulture sector. more >>
22 March 2007
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp. (Nasdaq:SBUX - news) said on Wednesday it remained in talks with the Ethiopian government to settle a dispute over the trademarking of the nation's coffee beans. more >>
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22 March 2007
On the day of its annual shareholders meeting in Seattle, Starbucks Corp. has been targeted by a Boston-based nonprofit that's working to help Ethiopian coffee farmers trademark their coffees. more >>
by Ali Musa Abdi
22 March 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali troops and their Ethiopian allies exchanged heavy mortar and machinegun fire with insurgents here Thursday as terrified residents streamed out of the Somali capital fearing a wider war. more >>
22 March 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - The Eritrean government expelled the head of UN demining operations on its border with Ethiopia in the latest in a series of bans it has imposed on the world body's mission, the UN said on Wednesday. more >>
by Aaron Maasho
21 March 2007
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AFP) - Twice a week, Taddesse Hidego anxiously waits for salt traders to arrive in his town in northeast Ethiopia to bring supplies to his shop, but this localised arrangement faces a threat. more >>
21 March 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has hired PTE International Inc, an American company, to study and implement major management reforms. more >>
21 March 2007
Ethiopia’s quest to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) has finally reached the clarification stage with Canada and the US being the first two countries to send questions on Ethiopia’s Memorandum of the Foreign Trade Regime. more >>
20 March 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Eight Ethiopian hostages still missing after the release last week of five Europeans captured with them in the Ethiopian desert are safe, a rebel leader claiming to be holding them told AFP Tuesday. more >>
20 March 2007
Addis Ababa - President Girma Woldegiorgis urged Ethiopian Scout Association to strengthen its activities of accelerating nation's development and generating full-fledged citizens. more >>
Gemeda Humnasa
20 March 2007
Going along with its promisingly successful East African destruction Foreign Policy, the Eritrean government has created, harbored & armed yet another non-Eritrean institution in its capital - Asmara. As expected and as feared by many regional analysts, a fresh political faction was formed by the Asmara government once again, adding to the several Ethiopian, Somali, Sudanese and other nations’ political groups that the Eritrean government has already financed, formed or armed in attempt to destabilize the entire region. more >>
19 March 2007
ASMARA, Eritrea (AFP) - Rebels in the remote Afar region on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border have claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Europeans released last week in an interview on Eritrean state media. more >>
19 March 2007
Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) says some 20,000 Ethiopians residing in U.S.A. have so far signed up for air tickets to travel back home and join in the celebrations of the Ethiopian Millennium. more >>
By Ayanawo Farada Sanbetu
18 March 2007
The Falashmura compound in Gondar, Ethiopia may shut down following an order by the Gondar governor last week. more >>
18 March 2007
Jimma - The Ministry of Education said more than 120,000 students are attending their education in 21 state-owned universities. more >>
18 March 2007
ASMARA, Eritrea - The spokesman for a dissident group of Somali parliamentarians said his group would not return to Somalia until Ethiopian troops first withdrew from the country. more >>
18 March 2007
Addis Ababa - A group of Ethiopians has begun to collect petition that would help eight Ethiopian hostages, who were abducted through mastermind of the Eritrean Government, at international level. more >>
By DANIELLE PERGAMENT - The New York Times
18 March 2007
ETHIOPIA is not a country people go to for food. But despite its lack of culinary fanfare, Addis Ababa, the capital city, has a rich and unexpected food culture. And more than just great meals, this is food that comes with a story. more >>
16 March 2007
Addis Ababa – The rapid economic growth that Ethiopia has been registering in recent years are opening the country for wider international competition to which Ethiopian companies are more exposed, according to the Italian Ambassador to Ethiopia. more >>
By Cathy Majtenyi - Nairobi
16 March 2007
Several British citizens abducted in northeastern Ethiopia are reportedly on their way back home after having been released. But eight Ethiopians who had been abducted with the group are still being held hostage. Cathy Majtenyi reports for VOA from Nairobi. more >>
16 March 2007
Ethiopia said Thursday it has launched an urban electric power expansion project at a cost of 650 million birr (74 million U.S. dollars) to improve the electric power supply in seven major cities of the nation. more >>
16 March 2007
Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian millennium celebration is a good opportunity for the country to promote its image, Canadian Ambassador to Ethiopia, Yves Boulanger said. more >>
16 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Ethiopian Airlines is set to launch services to the city of Sana’a, Yemen, effective May 14 with four flights per week, and a new nonstop flights to Bahrain, effective 03 June. more >>
15 March 2007
Dakar - The Ethiopian ministry of agriculture has allocated 400,000 hecaters land for vegetable, fruit and horticulture producers in the Rift Valley, Dire Dawa, Dedesa Valley and Tana Beles Corridors. more >>
15 March 2007
Ethiopia's British community is to hold a vigil on Thursday night for eight Ethiopians still being held captive after their kidnap in the Afar region. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
15 March 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), has signed a 1.5 billion dollar loan with the Chinese ZTE for the upgrading of its telephone network. more >>
15 March 2007
The Cabinet of the Addis Abeba City Caretaker Administration has agreed to amend a directive and will increase the amount of compensation paid to demolished house owners by 60pc as it has agreed to value the dwellings using current market prices, sources disclosed to Fortune. more >>
15 March 2007
Five Europeans and eight Ethiopians were forcefully abducted and taken to Eritrea while site seeing in the Afar National Regional State. more >>
By TOM MALITI, Associated Press Writer
15 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Five Europeans freed by kidnappers said Wednesday they were treated well and expressed gratitude to the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia that led to their release. more >>
Richard Beeston, Diplomatic Editor - TimesOnline
14 March 2007
The release in Asmara of five hostages connected to the British embassy in Addis Ababa, could cause a serious diplomatic fallout for the Eritrean authorities. more >>
13 March 2007
LONDON (Reuters) - Five Europeans kidnapped in Ethiopia 12 days ago have been released and are in good health, Foreign minister Margaret Beckett said on Tuesday. more >>
13 March 2007
Sheikh Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi paid on Thursday, March 8, close to 19.5 million dollars on behalf of Derba-MIDROC Cement Plc, a subsidiary company of MIDROC Ethiopia, which has hired China National Building Materials (CNBM) to build the largest cement factory in Ethiopia. more >>
13 March 2007
The Ethiopian Airports Enterprise (EAE) is conducting studies to upgrade Jimma Airport to international standards. more >>
13 March 2007
Ethiopian Prime Minster Meles Zenawi said Monday the Ethiopian troops in Somalia, which had already pulled out its one third force in January from the East African war-torn nation, will complete its withdrawal very soon. more >>
12 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said the Ethiopian economy would likely to show a 10.1 per cent growth this year continuing the successive economic growth over the last four years. more >>
Source Capital
12 March 2007
The tombstones of former Olympics marathon gold medalists Abebe Bikila and Mamo Wolde were this week desecrated by unknown persons, it was learnt. more >>
By Andrew Heavens
12 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi challenged the kidnappers of five Europeans and eight locals to give them up on Monday, saying the hostages were not the original target of the raid in which they were seized. more >>
11 March 2007
Officials of the IMF are concerned by the escalating inflation rate being observed in Ethiopia. Inflation rate has reached 12 percent and the IMF projects the same figure for the current fiscal year. more >>
11 March 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Eritrea accused the United States on Saturday of bias in the country's border dispute with Ethiopia, saying Washington is propping up the Addis Ababa government in order to serve its own interests. more >>
Robert Crilly, Philip Willan and Abul Taher
11 March 2007
THIS is the first picture of Rossanna Moore, one of the four Britons kidnapped by rebels in Ethiopia. The photograph, which shows Moore as a student, was released by childhood friends who spoke of her passion for Ethiopia and its culture. more >>
10 March 2007
Addis Ababa - US Ambassador to Ethiopia Don Yamamoto on Saturday awarded prizes to winners of essay contest the Embassy organized in Addis Ababa as part of commemoration of Black History Month. more >>
10 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Radio Fana on Saturday inaugurated an FM 98.1 broadcast. more >>
10 March 2007
A cargo plane transporting Ugandan soldiers to Somalia's capital caught fire as it landed at Mogadishu's airport, officials say. more >>
by Aaron Maasho
10 March 2007
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AFP) - Four Britons and a Frenchwoman who disappeared in the remote Ethiopian desert more than a week ago are "safe" but still held by their kidnappers, Ethiopia's foreign minister said Friday. more >>
09 March 2007
Addis Ababa - President Girma Woldegiorgis briefed investors in Houston city, U.S.A., about the lucrative investment and trade opportunities Ethiopia offers. more >>
The chain’s image has suffered in its trademark fight with the Ethiopian government.
By Dominic Rushe in New York
09 March 2007
LAST Friday was an annual holiday in Ethiopia to commemorate the Battle of Adowa in 1896 and the routing of Italian forces at the end of the first Italo-Abyssinian war. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
09 March 2007
MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Five Europeans and eight Ethiopians kidnapped by gunmen in remote northern Ethiopia are safe and in a good condition, the Ethiopian government and a local community leader said on Friday. more >>
09 March 2007
Addis Ababa - International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director said the economic growth Ethiopia registered for three consecutive years have laid a corner stone for further enhancing its economic growth in the years ahead. more >>
08 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (IRIN) - The expectation that Ethiopia will enjoy a bumper food harvest this year has led the government and its humanitarian partners to adopt a new policy towards emergency needs and allocating resources. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
08 March 2007
Jimma town has been struck by a fuel shortage in the past few days as regular fuel is not available at any retailer. more >>
08 March 2007
Adama University, formerly Nazareth Technical College, has completed the final chapter of its 45.2 million Br expansion project that was begun in 2003. more >>
By Chris Tomlinson, Associated Press Writer
08 March 2007
U.S. Hires Military Contractor DynCorp to Back Peacekeeping Mission in Somalia
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- The State Department has hired a major military contractor to help equip and provide logistical support to international peacekeepers in Somalia, giving the United States a significant role in the critical mission without assigning combat forces. more >>
Source: EiTB24
07 March 2007
Gender based violence is affecting women from all walks of life and it's something the Ethiopian government is starting to recognise. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
07 March 2007
BERAHILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Kidnappers who seized five people linked to the British embassy in Ethiopia may have come from local groups in the Afar region where the abduction took place, sources said on Tuesday. more >>
by Aaron Maasho
07 March 2007
MEKELE, Ethiopia (AFP) - Fears rose on Tuesday for a British embassy group abducted six days ago in the Ethiopian desert after their bullet-riddled cars were found near the Eritrean border. more >>
07 March 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Amid pomp and fanfare, two planes carrying African Union peacekeepers from Uganda landed in the lawless Somali capital Tuesday to begin one of the most arduous tasks in the history of peacekeeping. more >>
06 March 2007
The Ethiopian Television and Radio Agency (ETRA) is undertaking a Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) to merge its currently separate news departments into one section. more >>
06 March 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has begun operating the fibre optic cable network installed in the north-western part of the country. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
06 March 2007
BERAHILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - A British government team searching for five embassy-linked people kidnapped in Ethiopia's remote Afar region left on Tuesday with no sign that the missing had been found. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
06 March 2007
MEKELE, Ethiopia (Reuters) - A search party scouring a remote northeastern region of Ethiopia looking for five kidnapped Europeans on Monday found two shrapnel-damaged vehicles that had belonged to the group. more >>
By Eskinder Michael - Capital
05 March 2007
The World Bank in its Africa Development Indicators 2006 report revealed that Ethiopia was headed in the right direction for economic growth. This was supported by statistics that show Ethiopia is a sustained economic growth country with 5.5%average annual GDP growth at the end of 2004. more >>
By Tedla Yeneakal - Capital
05 March 2007
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is engaged in a heated row with private companies which are subcontractors of mobile SIM cards, after the latter claimed that ETC is not giving them enough cards for sale, thereby failing to meet high demand. more >>
by Robin Millard (AFP)
05 March 2007
LONDON (AFP) - Britain is preparing to send in an SAS team to rescue five Britons feared kidnapped in Ethopia if diplomatic efforts to release them fail, newspapers said Monday. more >>
04 March 2007
Addis Ababa - Over 30,000 Jamaicans are expected to come to Ethiopia to celebrate the Ethiopian Millennium, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced here on Saturday. more >>
By Gethin Chamberlain and special correspondent in Addis Ababa, Sunday Telegraph
04 March 2007
Britain warned Eritrea last night that it expected the prompt release of a group of diplomat tourists after claims that Eritrean soldiers were behind a cross-border raid on a remote region of neighbouring Ethiopia. more >>
04 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - A senior Ethiopian official accused soldiers from neighbouring Eritrea on Saturday of kidnapping a group of mainly British tourists whose tour vehicles were found destroyed near the border. more >>
03 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA - The 111th anniversary of the Victory of Adowa was colourfully celebrated yesterday nationwide. more >>
03 March 2007
Eritrea recently imposed more restrictions on the United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire that ended its border war with Ethiopia in 2000, further reducing the world body’s effectiveness in the area, a UN spokesperson said today. more >>
02 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - One group among a number of Western tourists feared kidnapped in Ethiopia are safe and well and have been in contact, their tour operator Origins Ethiopia told AFP Friday. more >>
The Associated Press/International Herald Tribune
02 March 2007
UNITED NATIONS: Ethiopia's president urged the international community to bring Ethiopia and Eritrea together to negotiate a solution to their border dispute, which was the cause of one war and remains a barrier to peace between the Horn of Africa neighbors. more >>
by Peter Martell
02 March 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - For Eritrea, a nation that has spent most of the past half-century in bloody battles against arch-foe and large neighbour Ethiopia, war worries are never far from people's minds. more >>
By LES NEUHAUS, Associated Press Writer
02 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ten French tourists were kidnapped Thursday in northern Ethiopia, a businessman and a tour operator who work in the region said. more >>
01 March 2007
Ethiopian Airlines says it will add two additional flights between Washington Dulles and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. more >>
01 March 2007
Reigning World long course champion Tirunesh Dibaba will lead Ethiopia’s squad of twenty six athletes for the 35th IAAF World Cross Country Championships in Mombasa, Kenya (24 March 2007). more >>
01 March 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Ugandan military officers on Thursday arrived in Somalia in the first contingent of an African Union peacekeeping force to be deployed in the war-shattered Horn of Africa nation. more >>
by Biniyam Wubishet - Ethiopian Herald
01 March 2007
ADDIS ABABA- Information Minister Birhan Hailu said that promoting the New Ethiopian Millennium through the local and international media with a view to building the country’s image is gaining momentum. more >>