27 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AP) – Ethiopia's newly re-elected prime minister sharply rebuffed U.S. and European Union criticism of the weekend election, as opposition leaders called Wednesday for a rerun. more >>
26 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopian opposition groups on Wednesday rejected results of parliamentary elections which gave long-time ruler Meles Zenawi a landslide win, and demanded fresh polls. more >>
25 May, 2010
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said his Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front won this week’s elections, as tens of thousands of supporters protested against criticism of the vote by rights activists. more >>
25 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AP) – Ethiopia's ruling party called a rally in the capital Tuesday to celebrate its victory in national elections, but a U.S. rights group claimed the weekend ballot was corrupted by irregularities. more >>
24 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's party leads the vote count across the country following weekend elections, officials said Monday, but claims mounted that the ballot had been fixed. more >>
24 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's opposition accused Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling coalition of rigging the country's election on Sunday, though no major violence was reported in sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous country. more >>
23 May, 2010
ADWA, Ethiopia (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said he expects to be returned to power in national elections Sunday and rejected accusations that the first vote since a violent 2005 poll would be a fraud. more >>
23 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopians voted in legislative elections Sunday as Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, a key Western ally, appeared set to extend his 19-year rule over sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous nation. more >>
23 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (AP) – Ethiopia's largest opposition bloc said it has evidence of voter intimidation and vote-rigging that may lead members to contest the results of Sunday's national election in Africa's third-most populous country. more >>
23 May, 2010
BBCNews - Ethiopians are voting in the first election since a 2005 poll was marred by protests that led to the deaths of 200 people. more >>
13 May, 2010
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s government will ignore foreign and domestic pressure to free opposition leader Birtukan Mideksa from prison and keep her incarcerated beyond this month’s elections, Communications Minister Bereket Simon said. more >>
13 May, 2010
SHANGHAI (Xinhua) -- The only replica of "Lucy," the celebrated 40-percent-complete skeletal remains of a female hominid who lived 3.2 million years ago in East Africa was unveiled at the Ethiopia Pavilion in the Africa Joint Pavilion on Thursday morning. more >>
12 May, 2010
LONDON (AP) – David Cameron, the youthful leader who modernized the party of right-wing icon Margaret Thatcher, became prime minister Tuesday after the resignation of Gordon Brown — capping a gripping election saga that returns the Tories to government after 13 years of Labour Party rule. more >>
09 May, 2010
CBC - Prime Minister Stephen Harper has announced that Canada has extended invitations to the leaders of Ethiopia, Malawi, the Netherlands, Spain and Vietnam to attend the G20 summit in Toronto next month. more >>
08 May, 2010
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's ruling party accused the opposition on Friday of killing one of its candidates ahead of this month's national election, in an allegation denied by the main opposition alliance. more >>
05 May, 2010
VOANews - Ethiopia's sparsely-populated Tigray region is shaping up as the focal point for the May 23rd elections for parliament. more >>
05 May, 2010
VOANews - Eritrea’s information minister says Ethiopia’s latest accusations that Asmara is arming insurgents to disrupt this month’s general elections is a diversionary tactic aimed at controlling Ethiopian voters ahead of the poll. more >>
02 May, 2010
CPJ - New York, In light of the Ethiopian government’s longstanding practice of jailing journalists on trumped-up criminal charges, the Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the detentions last week of two government TV journalists on allegations of misusing state property. more >>