Khaleej Times Online
31 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Ethiopia) — Fresh from his latest globe trotting exploits, it’s back to business for marathon world record holder Haile Gebrselassie as he targets yet another world best and a purse of $1,000,000 at the 2008 Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon, a Press release said. more >>
By Jason McLure - Newsweek Web Exclusive
31 October, 2007
When Fitsum Berihu fled into Ethiopia, he risked death by hyenas, snipers and land mines. Two years later the 35-year-old Eritrean vividly recalls the fear he felt as he made his way through a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone and across the trenches and artillery lines of some of the tens of thousands of soldiers dug in on both sides of the divide. more >>
By Arthur Asiimwe
30 October, 2007
KIGALI (Reuters) - Ethiopia will not issue new mobile licenses to private investors until 2010 once a new $1.5 billion infrastructure roll out is complete, the minister for communications told Reuters on Tuesday. more >>
By SALLY BUZBEE, Associated Press Writer
30 October, 2007
CAIRO, Egypt - Egypt's president announced plans Monday to build several nuclear power plants — the latest in a string of ambitious such proposals from moderate Arab countries. The United States immediately welcomed the plan, in a sharp contrast to what it called nuclear "cheating" by Iran. more >>
29 October, 2007
The multi-national group of energy and petrochemical companies, Shell, is to exit Ethiopia, selling its properties. The Dutch company is also set to leave 10 other African countries, sources at the company told Fortune. more >>
Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa), Menase Kifle
29 October, 2007
A book holding signatures and visions of 30 million individuals and companies, launched at the Sheraton Addis on Thursday, hoped to be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records Association by the end of June. more >>
29 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Eritrean allegation that Ethiopia planned to invade the Red Sea state in early November was an absurd fabrication, an Ethiopian official said on Monday. more >>
by Mustafa Haji Abdinur
29 October, 2007
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi resigned Monday following a long-running feud with the president, as the country sank deeper into a political, security and humanitarian crisis. more >>
27 October, 2007
GOVERNMENT is desperately trying to dissuade Ethiopian Airlines from pulling out of the Harare route, businessdigest can reveal. more >>
27 October, 2007
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia will provide the necessary support to ensure the success of the African-European Summit due to be held in Lisbon in December, says Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. more >>
By Alisha Ryu - Nairobi VOA News
27 October, 2007
In a report to the U.N. secretary-general this week, an international boundary commission trying to create a permanent border between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa said that the body will likely dissolve at the end of next month without reaching a comprehensive agreement. more >>
27 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A group of rebels Ethiopia blames for the kidnapping of five Europeans and eight locals earlier this year has surrendered, Ethiopia said on Friday. more >>
25 October, 2007
PAYNE: Secondly, the Ethiopia-Eritrean situation, and bottoming the demarcation of the borders had not been accepted by Ethiopia, our big ally in Africa. And I wonder if our administration is urging Ethiopia to accept the agreement that they said they would accept from The Hague as relates to the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia. more >>
24 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia started re-erecting its famed Axum obelisk 30 months after it returned to the country from Italy where it stayed for 70 years, a UN expert said Wednesday. more >>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Press Statement
24 October, 2007
Eritrea’s spin doctors are back in action again. This time it’s over the Eritrea Ethiopia Boundary Commission’s 25th report to the UN Secretary-General. And we should, perhaps, be grateful to Eritrea for publicizing a leaked copy; we have yet to receive one ourselves. more >>
24 October, 2007
NEW YORK (AP) - Six Iraqi women journalists who risked their lives working for an American news organisation, a Mexican reporter who faced death threats for her reporting on paedophiles, and an Ethiopian journalist charged with treason for criticising the government have received awards for courage. more >>
24 October, 2007
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has accused the official opposition of collaborating with armed insurgents. His comments came after an opposition leader complained in parliament about harassment in the Oromia region. more >>
By HERB JACKSON - WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT
23 October, 2007
A Central Jersey congressman defended himself from sometimes harsh questioning at the National Press Club on Monday about his bill to hold the government of Ethiopia accountable for a brutal crackdown on people protesting election fraud in 2005. more >>
By the Associated Press
23 October, 2007
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Freed from a prison in Ethiopia, Yacob Hailemariam is home in Virginia but said he will risk arrest again in his homeland to promote democratic rule. more >>
22 October, 2007
“I have been all over around the world, but I have never had an experience like in Ethiopia,” R & B superstar Beyoncé Knowles said amidst her thrilling performance that rocked her fans in the concert hall that hosted her two-hour extravaganza until midnight. more >>
21 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP): American R&B diva Beyonce Knowles began her world tour in front of an audience of 5,000 adoring and hysterical fans in Ethiopia, a country usually unimpressed by Western music. more >>
IOL - Independent Online
20 October, 2007
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia has unveiled its first locally assembled saloon car - with parts imported from China - two years after it rolled out a plant. more >>
20 October, 2007
Princess Margriet sister of the grandmother of Ariane Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands had chosen for the reading out of the book of the new testament Handling (8: 26-40), where an Ethiopian converts himself to Christianity and is baptized by Filippus. www.telegraaf.nl
Ethiopian Reporter
20 October, 2007
Ethiopia's exports to the US during the first eight months of 2007 registered a USD 9.5 million increase compared to that of the same period the previous year, latest statistics compiled by the US International Trade Commission indicated. more >>
Ethiopian Reporter
20 October, 2007
Petroleum companies which have oil exploration concessions in the Ogaden basin are unable to resume work on the exploration projects due to fragile security conditions in the remote eastern part of Ethiopia. more >>
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia
18 October, 2007
The process to achieve sustainable peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea, under way since 2000, is at a critical stage. Demarcation cannot be carried out. It is not because Ethiopia is dragging its feet. It is because demarcation is not a priority for Eritrea. more >>
By Tesfu Telahoun - Capital
18 October, 2007
The world’s most successful manufacturer of passenger aircraft, The Boeing Company, has unexpectedly announced that the roll-out of the 787 Dreamliner will be delayed by up to six months. more >>
18 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) - Ethiopia has agreed to work with the United Nations in delivering humanitarian aid to its Ogaden region, where a crackdown on rebels had impeded the flow of supplies, the United Nations said on Thursday. more >>
17 October, 2007
TIJO (IRIN) - Five years ago, Wegene Abebe was just another local peasant eking out a living in Tijo, 220km southeast of the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa; today he is a prominent farmer with a steady income. more >>
By Katie Nguyen
17 October, 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - When Ethiopian opposition leader Hailu Shawel was freed from jail, hordes of relatives and supporters swarmed his gated mansion in Addis Ababa to raise a dram of whisky to his liberty. more >>
By Aweys Yusuf and Ahmed Mohamed
17 October, 2007
BAIDOA, Somalia (Reuters) - Somali Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi flew to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on Wednesday, amid speculation he would quit as parliament debated the president's move to oust him. more >>
Janine Zacharia - Bloomberg via Yahoo! News
16 October, 2007
(Bloomberg) -- In 1998, President Bill Clinton hailed Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi as the leader of an African renaissance. Today, human-rights groups say his security forces are raping and murdering civilians while fighting insurgents seeking autonomy in the Ogaden region. more >>
16 October, 2007
Addis Ababa (WIC) – Ethiopian Airlines is reportedly undertaking a study to replace the old Fokker and Dash 6 aircrafts used for domestic flights with new and modern aircrafts. more >>
By Tesfa-alem Tekle - SudanTribune article
16 October, 2007
(ADDIS ABABA) — Ethiopian horticulture producers and exporters association (EHPEA) said Ethiopia’s tremendous efforts to boost the horticulture sector has created a break though in to the world flower market competition. more >>
14 October, 2007
CUD chairperson Engineer Hailu Shawel dismissed reports of an ongoing mediation effort in the United States to reconcile the differences between him and a splinter group of the party made up of five of its top ranking members. more >>
14 October, 2007
Classic Education and Training Network, a local company engaged in producing educational software, introduced “the first of its type” interactive multimedia teaching and training support service for high school students from grade seven to ten, Company General Manager Engineer Wondimu Gezahegn told The Reporter. more >>
The Ethiopian News Agency
13 October, 2007
Addis Ababa - Eid'l Fitr, the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan was colorfully celebrated across Ethiopia on Friday. more >>
By Daud Aweis - BBC News, Nairobi
13 October, 2007
As if Somalis do not have enough battles to contend with, their two leading politicians, President Abdullahi Yusuf and Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi, have fallen out. more >>
12 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — As Ethiopia enters its third millennium, so does its Orthodox church, a venerable state-backed institution whose dominance is increasingly threatened by a myriad of evangelical faiths. more >>
11 October, 2007
Addis Ababa (WIC) - Ethiopia's oil consumption has sharply increased and the expenditure for oil is 60 percent of the revenue from export, the Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise said. more >>
11 October, 2007
MOGADISHU: A key Somali Islamist leader on Tuesday called for jihad, or holy war, vowing that a bloody insurgency against the Ethiopian-backed government in Mogadishu would end only with the return of Islamic law. more >>
11 October, 2007
BAIDOA, Somalia (AFP) - A suicide bomber rammed a vehicle Wednesday into an Ethiopian army base in Somalia, killing two soldiers, in a bid to assassinate Somalia Prime Minister Ali Mohamed Gedi, an official and witnesses said. more >>
09 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The Ethiopian parliament on Tuesday reelected President Girma Wolde-Giorgis for a new six-year-term to his largely ceremonial post. more >>
Sheger 102.1 begins broadcast, while Zami 90.7 plans Saturday debut
09 October, 2007
The first ever privately-owned commercial radio in Ethiopia is on air. Sheger Radio started its historical transmission on the morning of October 4, 2007, with music legend Tilahun Gessesse. more >>
08 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Outgoing Ethiopian President Girma Wolde-Giorgise accused Eritrea on Monday of disregarding attempts to peacefully resolve a border impasse and putting the Horn of Africa neighbours on the path to war. more >>
By Barney Jopson - FT.com
08 October, 2007
The government of Ethiopia, which has one of Africa's most state-dominated economies, is stepping into uncharted territory by launching a commodity exchange to help alleviate food shortages and encourage the commercialisation of agriculture. more >>
By Andualem Sisay - Capital
08 October, 2007
Absorbed by the current investment climate and opportunities in Ethiopia, a Dutch national is to invest over 40 mln USD on a five star hotel and real-estate ventures in Addis Ababa. more >>
07 October, 2007
(ADDIS ABABA) — Speaker of the House of People’s Representatives (HPR), Ambassador Teshome Toga today said the 3rd year office term of the HPR and the House of the Federation would be launched on 8 Oct 2007 with inaugural joint meeting of the two houses. more >>
06 October, 2007
WASHINGTON, The Embassy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia in Washington, DC, released this statement by Samuel Assefa, Ethiopia's Ambassador to the United States: more >>
By Jeremy Clarke - Reuters
06 October, 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group applauded on Saturday a bill passed by the U.S House of Representatives that would force their government to make democratic reforms or else lose security aid. more >>
06 October, 2007
Human rights agencies and government institutions are holding a two-day discussion to prepare a framework that enables Ethiopia to prepare periodical reporting on human rights. more >>
06 October, 2007
The Dubai-based Injaz Plc is set to launch what will become the biggest ever single investment project the country has witnessed so far, Oromia Investment Commission Commissioner Alemu Sime told The Reporter. more >>
04 October, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel kicked off her first tour of sub-Saharan Africa with a plea for more democratic freedoms in Ethiopia and an enhanced European role on the continent. more >>
By Jeffrey Gettleman - International Herald Tribune
04 October, 2007
ASMARA, Eritrea: For a man who many people say has been backed into a corner, Issaias Afewerki, the president of Eritrea, actually looks pretty relaxed. more >>
By Opheera McDoom
04 October, 2007
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Ethiopia pledged 5,000 troops to a future U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission for Darfur on Thursday, just days after the worst attack on peacekeepers already in Sudan's war-ravaged region. more >>
By Nick Wadhams - Nairobi VOA News
03 October, 2007
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has arrived in Ethiopia for the first leg of an Africa visit in which she will focus on strengthening business ties, addressing the AIDS pandemic and touring development projects. more >>
By C. Bryson Hull
03 October, 2007
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia on Wednesday strongly criticised a U.S. law moving through Congress that links continued aid to democratic reforms, calling it a threat to regional stability and its close military ties with Washington. more >>
02 October, 2007
The price of berbere (red pepper), an important ingredient in Ethiopian cuisine, has shot up once again this week both at Tekle Haimanot berbere terra in Addis Abeba and at Alaba berbere terra 315Km from the capital. more >>
By Dan Robinson - Washington VOA News
02 October, 2007
The House of Representatives has approved legislation aimed at supporting democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. VOA's Dan Robinson reports, a congressional committee also heard testimony on the human rights situation in Ethiopia, and the situation in the Ogaden region of the country. more >>
02 October, 2007
Three years after the Addis Abeba Provisional Administration passed a decision to grant residential plots to Diaspora Ethiopians the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) is undertaking the final screening of the requesters. more >>