31 May, 2007
DDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Thursday it had detained 50 government and company officials for graft in one of the east African nation's largest crackdowns. more >>
31 May, 2007
Two United Nations agencies working together in Ethiopia are helping the country respond to stunted growth and malnutrition in the young by providing food and nutritional assistance, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said. more >>
31 May, 2007
NAIROBI (AFP) - Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki on Wednesday urged the world to pressure arch-foe Ethiopia to accept a ruling of a boundary commission to resolve a tense border dispute. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
30 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Ethiopia began counting its population Tuesday, a daunting task in a country where asking personal questions is considered socially taboo but where the government and international donors sorely need more information to plan economic and social programs. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
29 May, 2007
Ethio-Life Insurance Share Company, is underway to introduce specialized long-term insurance, being the first of its kind in the country’s history. more >>
29 May, 2007
A number of Kenyan and Ethiopian horticulture producers and exporters expressed a strong interest in utilising Dubai Flower Centre’s (DFC) most advanced cool chain and one of the world’s fastest growing transit hubs. more >>
29 May, 2007
Roche Holding AG (RHHBY: 92.90, +1.40, +1.5% ) said it inked new deals to transfer technology for the production of generic HIV medication to companies in Ethiopia and Zimbabwe free of charge as part of a program to combat AIDS in less-developed nations. more >>
29 May, 2007
In this episode of The Big Interview, Jonathan Dimbleby travels to Ethiopia for an exclusive interview with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. more >>
The Ethiopian News Agency
29 May, 2007
Somali state (jijiga) - The Somali State Police Commission said it has apprehended five alleged Eritrean regime (She`abia)-sponsored terrorists that threw hand grenade on the residents of Jijjiga town and its environs who were celebrating May 28. The cold blooded terrorist act killed 5 persons and injured 52 others. more >>
By Andrew Heavens
28 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A grenade tossed into a crowd in Ethiopia's volatile Somali region on Monday wounded the local president and several other people celebrating a national holiday, officials said. more >>
Walta Information Center
27 May, 2007
Addis Ababa (WIC) - Ethiopia has become the top non-oil-dependent African country to achieve a double digit economic growth for four consecutive years, according to the Public Relations Adviser of the Prime Minister. more >>
The Ethiopian News Agency
27 May, 2007
Addis Ababa - The Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) said it has been exerting utmost efforts to make Ethiopia one of the middle-income countries within the first two decades of the new Ethiopian millennium through executing ongoing development endeavors successfully. more >>
By Guled Mohamed
27 May, 2007
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
27 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Ethiopians marched on Sunday to re-bury victims of the Mengistu regime's "Red Terror" purge who were dumped in mass graves after being left on street corners as a warning to others. more >>
26 May, 2007
In its nine-month performance report presented to the House of Peoples' Representatives on Wednesday, the Ethiopian Investment Agency (EIA) indicated that it had cancelled the license issued to about 228 investment projects either due to their failure to report on their progress or to renew their licenses on time. more >>
Ethiopian Reporter
26 May, 2007
The Ministry of Revenue collected a revenue totalling 10 billion birr in the past nine months. The ministry earned the revenue from tax and non-tax revenue and from the sale of lottery. more >>
The Ethiopian News Agency
25 May, 2007
Addis Ababa - A cornerstone was laid here on Friday to construct a new African Union Convention Complex at the adjacent of African Union headquarters. more >>
By Jack Kimball
25 May, 2007
ASMARA (Reuters) - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said on Thursday a security buffer between the Red Sea state and arch-foe Ethiopia was "meaningless" and blamed the United States for a five-year border stalemate. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
24 May, 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Scores of those rounded up by Kenya after a New Year conflict in Somalia remain "arbitrarily detained" in Ethiopia where they were sent for interrogation, Amnesty International said on Thursday. more >>
24 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia: For the past year, Yonas Tadesse has been trying to stave off the effects of HIV with a blend of science and faith — he takes anti-retroviral medicine but also drinks a liter of holy water, blessed by a priest. more >>
By Camillus Eboh
24 May, 2007
ABUJA (Reuters) - The two main opposition candidates in Nigeria's flawed presidential elections last month have filed petitions seeking the cancellation of the result just before the Wednesday deadline for legal challenges. more >>
24 May, 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Renegade Somali leaders in Eritrea have called on all Somalis to boycott planned reconciliation talks next month, warning of further violence in the war-torn country if they go ahead. more >>
By Daniel Wallis
23 May, 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - The United Nations has received pledges to plant more than a billion trees in a drive to help fight climate change and poverty, it said on Tuesday. more >>
22 May, 2007
The Ethiopian Population Census Commission will purchase satellite imagery equipment worth four million pounds 69 million Br, which will be financed by a donation from the United Kingdom (UK) Department for International Development (DFID). more >>
22 May, 2007
Addis Park Development and Management Plc (APDM), a subsidiary company of MIDROC Ethiopia, has launched construction of a massive concert hall, beginning to bulldoze a 90,000sqm plot located on Africa Avenue (Bole Road), in front of London Café. more >>
22 May, 2007
The deal involves the supply of 5,500 units of Intel-based desktops, and with an estimated value of AED 12.6 m (USD 3.5 m) it is purpotedly the biggest such PC deal in East Africa. more >>
Ambassador Shinn speaks to supporters of health foundation in Missouri
By Jim Fisher-Thompson USINFO Staff Writer
22 May, 2007
Washington -- International aid by the United States now totals more than $20 billion a year, but philanthropic giving by nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) like the Ethiopian Health Support Foundation also is making significant contributions toward meeting the development and humanitarian needs of poorer countries. more >>
By Mina Yirga - Capital
22 May, 2007
Under an initiative taken by the National Association of Positive Women Ethiopians, (NAPWE), a network of HIV positive women’s associations is to be launched at national level. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
22 May, 2007
The Chinese Government and the African Union signed a 150 million dollar agreement for the office expansion project of the AU, located in Addis Ababa. more >>
By Mina Yirga - Capital
22 May, 2007
Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation launched a phone directory which was prepared at a cost of 3.9 mln birr. more >>
By Mark Lamport-Stokes
21 May, 2007
CARSON, California (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Meseret Defar shrugged off an upset stomach to set a world record in the women's two-mile run on Sunday, clocking a time of nine minutes 10.47 seconds at the Adidas Track Classic. more >>
19 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia said Saturday its troops backing Somali government forces killed nearly 1,000 insurgents in Mogadishu in March and April during some of the heaviest clashes in the city's bloody history. more >>
By Sidhartha Banerjee
19 May, 2007
MONTREAL (CP) - It was during the few occasions an Ethiopian nanny was allowed to leave the home where she worked around the clock that people began to take notice that something just wasn't right. more >>
19 May, 2007
STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Three Swedish terror suspects jailed in Ethiopian for five months have been released, Sweden's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. more >>
By William Wallis in Shanghai www.ft.com
19 May, 2007
China intends to provide about $20bn in infrastructure and trade financing to Africa during the next three years, eclipsing many of the continent’s traditional big donors by a single pledge. more >>
19 May, 2007
LONDON (AFP) - Internet censorship is growing worldwide, with 26 out of 40 countries blocking or filtering political or social content, a study reported Friday. more >>
Thomas Burmeister, ADDIS ABABA
18 May, 2007
THE 16th Century Portuguese explorer Francisco Alvarez once described Ethiopia in such glowing terms that he feared "no one will believe me". Almost 500 years after Alvarez set foot in Ethiopia, tourists visiting the country must feel the same way. more >>
Warning: Another bloodbath in the coming
By Kallacha Dubbi www.sudantribune.com
18 May, 2007
Serious observers of the Ethiopian political panorama, especially the homegrown who can also do better reading of the Abyssinian psychic, are unanimous in that Prime Minister Meles is concocting ‘good’ reasons to wage another war against Eritrea. more >>
17 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA - The Ethiopian government yesterday signed financial grant and loan agreements amounting to over 2.6 billion birr with the World Bank and the European Commission (EC). more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
17 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian coffee exports are on course to rise about 2 percent to some 187,000 tonnes in the 2006/07 season, worth around $450 million, the head of the local exporters' association said on Thursday. more >>
By Guled Mohamed
17 May, 2007
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A roadside bomb targeted the Somali prime minister's convoy in Mogadishu on Thursday but no one was hurt, a day after four Ugandan peacekeepers died in a similar attack by rebels vowing an Iraq-style insurgency. more >>
17 May, 2007
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia on Wednesday executed two Ethiopians for murder and a Saudi man for smuggling hashish into the conservative Muslim country. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
17 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A rebel attack on an oil facility in Ethiopia that killed nine Chinese workers and 64 locals has not dented Beijing's investment in the Horn of Africa nation, the Ethiopian leader said on Wednesday. more >>
16 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi praised his outgoing British counterpart Tony Blair on Wednesday for his commitment to Africa. more >>
By Andrew Cawthorne
16 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops will not leave conflict-torn Somalia until several thousand more African peacekeepers arrive to avoid a security vacuum, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
16 May, 2007
Ethiopian Airlines has leased two B767 airliners jet to increase its capacity of transporting travelers to Ethiopia for the one and half year celebration of the Ethiopian Millennium that will begins this June. more >>
by Capital staff reporter
16 May, 2007
The National Bank of Ethiopia announced on Friday that the amount of foreign currency in which an Ethiopian traveler abroad is allowed to buy has been raised from the existing 400 USD to 1,000 USD. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
16 May, 2007
Medical doctors that work in the five Addis Ababa City hospitals finally managed to secure house allowance and additional benefits from the city as of next week. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
16 May, 2007
Holland Car Company told Capital that it is planning to assemble a new car that uses autogas, sometimes called Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG), instead of benzene. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
16 May, 2007
Empress Zewditu Hospital, which was built during the first years of Emperor Haile Silassie, has been shut down after serious leakage was found in the building. more >>
15 May, 2007
The US and the African Union have warned Ethiopia not to withdraw its troops
from Somalia before peacekeepers are deployed to replace them.
AU commission chief Alpha Oumar Konare says it would be a "catastrophe"
if Ethiopia pulled out too soon. more >>
15 May, 2007
Unemployment rates for both men and women in Africa have remained largely unchanged over the past decade, with women still maintaining lower levels at 7.6pc compared to men at 9.1pc, according to a report, Equality at Work: Tackling the Challenges, by the International Labour Office (ILO) on May 10, 2007. more >>
15 May, 2007
North Holding Investment Inc (Ethiopia Branch), an American investment firm, is planning to construct a close to five billion Birr cement factory in the Dejen Zone of the Amhara Regional State. more >>
Addis Fortune
15 May, 2007
Sheikh Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi has given a grant of 20 million dollars to the Clinton Foundation on Friday, May 11, 2007, in order to support the latter’s effort in fighting HIV/Aids in Ethiopia. more >>
15 May, 2007
The massive campaign to cleanse Addis Abeba from what the Administration calls an unprecedented lawlessness will be headed by Mayor Brehane Deresse himself, disclosed reliable sources. However, the coordinating committee is comprised of 10 agencies under the Administration and members of the federal police. more >>
14 May, 2007
SHANGHAI, China - Chinese-funded dams and other projects potentially threaten Africa's environment and local populations, an environmental group said Monday, urging Beijing to avoid similar mistakes made by Western donors. more >>
14 May, 2007
Ethiopian Airlines is recruiting 113 aircraft technicians from the Ethiopian Air Force and Dejen Aviation Maintenance and Engineering School of the Ministry of Defense. more >>
14 May, 2007
The second exploration well drilled in the Gambella basin, South West Ethiopia, turned out dry (no oil). more >>
14 May, 2007
KUWAIT CITY (AFP) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said in Kuwait on Sunday that Ethiopian troops will complete their withdrawal from neighbouring Somalia after the arrival of African Union peacekeeping forces. more >>
11 May, 2007
President Girma Wolde-Giorgis said that the Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia would make utmost efforts to ratify the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. more >>
By HANNAH BEECH
10 May, 2007
September 11 will be a momentous day in Ethiopia this year. But while the rest of the world will solemnly mark the anniversary of the terrorist attacks in America, Ethiopians will be partying like it's 1999. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
10 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Thursday said the United Nations had failed to stop Eritrea from undermining a 2000 peace deal over their disputed border by repeatedly moving troops inside a neutral buffer zone. more >>
By Anita Powell
10 May, 2007
Parliament voted overwhelmingly on Thursday to ask the United Nations to take "necessary measures" against Ethiopia's neighbour and long-time adversary, Eritrea. more >>
By Guled Mohamed
09 May, 2007
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali security forces are seizing and even burning Muslim women's veils in Mogadishu to stop Islamist insurgents disguising themselves for attacks, authorities and witnesses said on Wednesday. more >>
09 May, 2007
RIYADH (AFP) - An Ethiopian woman was beheaded by the sword on Wednesday in the Red Sea city of Jeddah for murdering an Egyptian man, the interior ministry said. more >>
Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York
09 May, 2007
The following Security Council press statement on Ethiopia and Eritrea was delivered on 8 may by Council President Zalmay Khalilzad ( United States): more >>
By METASEBIA FELEKE FORTUNE STAFF WRITER
08 May, 2007
Thuraya Satellite Telecommunication, a company based in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), inaugurated a new integrated sales showroom for satellite phones on May 3, 2007. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
08 May, 2007
A paper that has been on sale claiming that Canada has begun a Diversity Visa program is false says the Canadian Embassy in Addis Ababa. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
08 May, 2007
International consultants advised the government to restructure ETC by dividing it into three separate subsidiaries possibly under a holding company of a network and fixed line operator, a mobile operator and an internet service provider (ISP). more >>
08 May, 2007
The Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany has announced this week that after the signing a Memorandum of Understanding concluded by the Ethiopian and the German Governments, access for Ethiopian pupils to study at the German Embassy School in Addis Ababa will be created from the beginning of the school year 2007/08 on. more >>
08 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) - Ethiopia this month plans to carry out its third census to see whether its population will reach 77 million in 2007 as projected by the government, a senior Central Statistic Agency (CSA) official said on Monday. more >>
By CHRIS TOMLINSON, Associated Press Writer
07 May, 2007
NAIROBI, Kenya - Anthony Mitchell, among the 114 people that an official said were killed in a plane crash over the weekend in Cameroon, was a dogged Associated Press correspondent from Britain with a passion for Africa and for uncovering challenging stories. He had been on assignment to investigate the criminal trade in endangered species for food. more >>
By Amanda Wills
07 May, 2007
As the sun rises, a new day of survival begins for the people of Ethiopia. While water is scarce and disease is incessant, Ethiopian children face the reality of displacement daily. Ethiopia's population is plagued with infectious poverty, poor infrastructure and little education. As a result, more than five million children have been orphaned. more >>
By Zoe Alsop - SPECIAL TO COX NEWSPAPERS
07 May, 2007
GODE, Ethiopia — The town of Gode sits on an arid plain of brittle yellow scrub brush in Ethiopia's eastern Somali region. It looks like a place a John Wayne character might live and die. more >>
By Jane Sutton
05 May, 2007
MIAMI (Reuters) - A "high value" Somali prisoner at Guantanamo denied having al Qaeda ties but said he fought Ethiopian soldiers in his homeland and had the right to do so, according to a Pentagon transcript released on Friday. more >>
04 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The Ethiopian government on Thursday dismissed criticism of its record on press freedom, saying recent reports from rights watchdogs were based on unfounded allegations. more >>
04 May, 2007
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission embraced Eritrea's government on Friday in the search for a comprehensive solution to a range of conflicts across the Horn of Africa, from Darfur to Somalia. more >>
SEATTLE
03 May, 2007
Starbucks Coffee Co. said Thursday it will sign a licensing, distribution and marketing agreement with the Ethiopian government this month in hopes of settling a dispute over the trademarking the names of three coffees produced in the country. more >>
03 May, 2007
Based on thousands of votes cast by travel professionals from 160,000 travel agencies in over 200 countries across the globe, the World Travel Awards is regarded by many as the most prestigious award anyone can receive in the travel industry. more >>
03 May, 2007
Addis Ababa, (WIC) - Ethiopian missions and embassies are making preparations to organize events that would enable Ethiopians all over the world celebrate the millennium, Secretariat of the Ethiopian Millennium Festival National Council disclosed. more >>
03 May, 2007
Addis Ababa - The city of Addis Ababa has taken one major step towards joining the status of well-advanced cities in the world with completion of its Digital Mapping and Orthophotography project. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
01 May, 2007
World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz'sfate will be decided on Monday April 30, after appearing before a panel of seven bank directors that also include Mulu Ketsela, former state minister of Finance and Economic Development. The panel is to make recommendations on his future to the full 24-member board. The board hasn't provided a timeframe for a decision. more >>
01 May, 2007
Nyala Insurance has joined the potentially lucrative business of the travel market, largely eyeing the prospective profits Ethiopians in the Diaspora could bring to its business. Members of the company's top management have launched a new product on Friday, April 27, 2007, at the Sheraton, adding what they call is "Y2000TI" to the list of 30 policies they offer to the market. more >>
By Andrew Heavens
01 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Internet watchdog on Tuesday accused Ethiopia of blocking scores of anti-government Web sites and millions of blogs in one of sub-Saharan Africa's biggest cases of cyber-censorship. more >>
01 May, 2007
We, the member of the Ethiopian Somali Advocacy Council, wish to send our condolences and deep sympathy for the families of the Chinese and Ethiopian workers who were savagely killed at the Able oil field in the Somali regional state of Ethiopia. more >>
01 May, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (Xinhua) -- The Seven Chinese oil workers kidnapped by Ethiopian rebels after a deadly raid on an oil venture arrived here on Monday, a Chinese official said. more >>