26 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A former Ethiopian president and a former defence minister have joined the same opposition party, strengthening it against a government accused of suppressing critics before national elections in May. more >>
26 November, 2009
KOREM, Ethiopia (AFP) – Twenty-five years after releasing a hit single to raise funds for victims of Ethiopia's infamous famine, Bob Geldof on Wednesday visited one of the then worst-affected villages in the north of the Horn of Africa country. more >>
26 November, 2009
ASMARA (Reuters) - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said the international community would regret moves to impose sanctions on the country, a government website said on Thursday. more >>
25 November, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s main opposition party criticized a U.S. aid program for helping a textile plant with ties to the country’s ruling party win a multimillion dollar contract from an American company. more >>
25 November, 2009
VOA News - Prosecutors in Ethiopia are seeking the death penalty for 40 people found guilty of conspiring to overthrow the government. more >>
23 November, 2009
BAKO, ETHIOPIA -- In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland.
This impoverished and chronically food-insecure Horn of Africa nation is rapidly becoming one of the world's leading destinations for the booming business of land leasing, by which relatively rich countries and investment firms are securing 40-to-99-year contracts to farm vast tracts of land. - washingtonpost
23 November, 2009
Capital - Leading local transport provider and car rental company, ABC Plc has purchased the previously state-owned National Tour Operation and Travel Agency Enterprise (NTO) for 21 million birr with a 100 percent down payment. more >>
19 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian court convicted 27 serving and former soldiers on Thursday of planning a coup and found them guilty on other charges which also carry the death penalty. more >>
19 November, 2009
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A draft U.N. Security Council resolution calls for an arms embargo against Eritrea and travel bans and asset freezes for members of its government and military for aiding Islamist insurgents in Somalia. more >>
17 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia should investigate allegations that local officials are keeping food aid from opposition members to force them to join the ruling party ahead of national elections, a British aid minister said on Tuesday. more >>
16 November, 2009
Ethiopian Airlines has signed a contract for the purchase of twelve Airbus A350-XWBs aircraft firming up a Memorandum of Understanding signed in Addis Ababa in July 2009. more >>
15 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) - Ethiopia opened a dam on Saturday that it says will produce 300 MW of hydropower as part of efforts to overcome chronic energy shortages and become one of Africa's only power exporters, state media said. more >>
14 November, 2009
JOHANNESBURG – An Ethiopian human rights activist who was jailed for 2 1/2 years said Friday that his country is less free today than it was during its disputed 2005 election. more >>
11 November, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s opposition today accused Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s government of using its access to foreign-funded, anti-poverty programs to gain support for the ruling Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front. more >>
11 November, 2009
VOA News - Eight Ethiopian opposition groups are accusing Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's ruling party of using its control of the government to systematically crush opponents ahead of next year's national elections. more >>
10 November, 2009
(Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia plans to lease 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land to foreign and domestic investors for agriculture over the next three years to increase productivity and earn foreign exchange, the government said. more >>
03 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian opposition parties say nearly 450 of their members have been jailed to stop them running as candidates in national elections in May next year. more >>
01 November, 2009
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and three opposition parties have signed a set of rules for next year's national elections amid accusations of a crackdown on dissent ahead of the poll. more >>
01 November, 2009
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) – Ethiopia's election campaign will kick off on December 8, a government official said on Thursday, despite protests by an opposition umbrella group over a newly-agreed electoral code. more >>