29 September 2006
Ethiopia has a chance of defeating malaria, its biggest killer, an official from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said today as the Horn of Africa country’s Government launched a major push against the disease ahead of the annual transmission season. more >>
27 September 2006
ADDIS ABABA - A delegation led by the European Commission (EC) President Jose Manuel Barroso will pay a working visit to Ethiopia and the African Union (AU) from September 30 to October 2, 2006, Head of European Commission Delegation said. more >>
PUDENCIANA TEMBA
27 September 2006
JOURNALISTS from various mass media institutions in the country visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently to acquaint themselves with socio-economic development issues of the country and visit key areas. In this article, Staff Writer PUDENCIANA TEMBA gives highlights of salient features of the country. more >>
27 September 2006
SpectrumData has signed a four-year contract with the Ethiopian Government to recover and reformat exploration data more >>
26 September 2006
Mogadishu - Somalia's Islamists said on Tuesday they are readying troops and recruiting young men to defend themselves against suspected Ethiopian soldiers in the country. more >>
26 September 2006
The Islamist militia that has seized much of Somalia has said it will defend the country from Ethiopian forces it says are in the country. more >>
The Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa) - allafrica.com
26 September 2006
A new seven-story building being erected around Bole Medhanialem area, on Cameron Street, will house what will be the first multiplex cinema - a cluster of three cinemas simultaneously screening different movies, and children amusement outlets, proprietor and First-class building contractor Teklebrehan Ambaye told The Daily Monitor. more >>
By Tammy Walquist - Deseret Morning News
25 September 2006
MURRAY — Murray High students received a rare treat this week — a special performance by the Mesgana dancers. The Mesgana Dancers are a group of Ethiopian girls ages 7-12 who are students in the Children of Ethiopia Education Fund. The Murray-based COEEF is an international NGO/nonprofit that sponsors more than 700 girls in private schools throughout Ethiopia. Without the sponsorships, many of the girls would drop out of school and end up married at a young age, said Norm Perdue, who founded COEEF with his wife, Ruthann. more >>
23 September 2006
Seyoum Bereded, 41, came to the public scene shortly after Seyoum Mesfin, minister of Foreign Affairs, appointed him to lead a secretariat in charge of the Ethiopian Millennium celebration. It will comprise a series of events beginning on September 10, 2007. more >>
By Tedla Yeneakal - Capital
21 September 2006
Fifteen months after taking office, Paul D. Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank (WB), has intensified his fight against corruption, waging an aggressive campaign that has resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in loans and contracts to nations including Ethiopia, Kenya, Congo, India and Bangladesh being suspended. more >>
21 September 2006
Ethiopian Airlines has been chosen ‘African Airline of the Year 2006’ by African Aviation Journal. The key criteria for Ethiopian Airlines to have won the African Aviation Award include its financial performance and overall profitability, passenger growth, route network expansion, fleet modernization, in-flight services, and overall customer care. more >>
By Cathy Majtenyi - Nairobi
21 September 2006
Close to 200 people are believed to have died from a diarrhea outbreak in Ethiopia made worse by recent floods that contaminated wells and rivers.
A program coordinator at the Ethiopia office of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, John Manley, tells VOA recent floods in Ethiopia exacerbated the earlier outbreak of acute watery diarrhea. more >>
By Malcolm Ritter, The Associated Press
20 September 2006
NEW YORK — Scientists have discovered a remarkably complete skeleton of a three-year-old female from the ape-man species represented by "Lucy."
The discovery should fuel a contentious debate about whether this species, which walked upright, also climbed and moved through trees easily like an ape. more >>
20 September 2006
The area has been troubled by a low-level conflict between the army and rebels known as the Ogaden National Liberation Front. more >>
19 September 2006
Residents and leaders of the CMC Residents' Association will be meeting this week to protest recent rent increases by the federal Agency for the Administration of Rented Houses (AARH). more >>
19 September 2006
Ethiopia said Monday about 134 million U.S. dollars were obtained from the tourism sector last year due to the government's commitment to enhance the sector 's role in the country's economy. more >>
19 September 2006
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian hides and skin products are enjoying high demand in Chinese markets, the Ethiopian Leather and Leather Products Producers Association said. more >>
By Tedla Yeneaka - Capital
19 September 2006
Over 300 transport truck owners who oppose July's directive forcing them to buy at least 10-25 trucks in order to continue their businesses appealed to the Prime Minister's office on Thursday, September 14 th. more >>
BBC NEWS
18 September 2006
At least 11 people have died in an apparent bid to assassinate Somalia's interim president outside parliament in the town of Baidoa, say officials. more >>
BBC NEWS
18 September 2006
Ethiopia's authorities have begun showing English Premiership football matches on giant screens in the capital to raise funds for flood victims. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
17 September 2006
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) aims to sell one million mobile lines annually for the next ten years starting from the Ethiopian millennium (September 2007). more >>
Source: Reuters
16 September 2006
ADDIS ABABA, Sept 16 (Reuters) - Three rebels from the southern Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) blew themselves up the Ethiopian capital with Eritrean-made explosives they were planning to use for an attack, police said on Saturday. more >>
Source: easyBourse
15 September 2006
BAIDOA, Somalia (AP)--Police fired into the air and arrested several demonstrators who staged a protest Friday in support of an Islamic group vying for authority in Somalia and against calls for the deployment of peacekeepers here. more >>
Hayal Alemayehu - The daily Monitor (Addis Ababa)
15 September 2006
A. RO. S. Gold Touch - a newly erected resort destined to be the third five-star hotel in the country following the Addis Ababa Hilton and the Sheraton Addis - will open in December, Establishment C.E.O. Abiy Roba disclosed to The Daily Monitor. more >>
From correspondents in Addis Ababa - CourierMail
15 September 2006
AT least eight people, including a family of seven, were killed in a fierce rainstorm that pounded eastern Ethiopia as floods continued to ravage the country. more >>
14 September 2006
By Tedla Yeneakal - Capital
The management of Anbessa City Bus Enterprise fears that it may have lost over 40 million birr during the past fiscal year. more >>
14 September 2006
By Groum Abate - Capital
Established in 1954 as a subsidiary of TOTAL, Nile Petroleum is getting ready to enter the oil distribution market in Ethiopia by January 2007. more >>
14 September 2006
Addis Ababa, (WIC)-The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) disclosed that private individual transfer of money through legal channels has been increasing steadily during the past three years, remittance for the concluded budget year jumping over 371 million USD. more >>
By ISSAYAS MEKURIA - FORTUNE STAFF WRITER
13 September 2006
Owners of freight transport trucks are signing a petition in protest of the Ethiopian government’s decision to allow MIDROC Derba Plc. to import 800 trucks duty-free for transporting cement. more >>
AddisFortune
12 September 2006
The first international franchise in Ethiopia, Swiss Cafe, opened its doors on Saturday, September 9, housed in a newly redesigned building on South Africa Street, behind Medhanialem Cathedral. The owner, Michael Egualemariam says the café spent close to 1.5 million Br to meet the standards required by the franchise. more >>
11 September 2006
Addis Ababa - The National Secretariat in charge of coordinating the celebration of the Ethiopian Millennium called on the public to contribute their share toward colourfully celebrating the event throughout the nation. more >>
09 September 2006
Stuttgart added a new chapter to the epic battle between Ethiopian distance running stars Tirunesh Dibaba and Meseret Defar. This time Dibaba made up for last week’s defeat in Berlin by Defar which cost her an additional $125,000 Golden League Jackpot bonus in a photo-finish sprint to the finish-line more reminiscent of a 100m sprint race than a 5000m encounter. Dibaba edged out Defar by just one hundredth of a second (16:04.77 to 16:04.78).
“God was with me helping to win the sprint against Meseret,” said Dibaba. “After Berlin I was not afraid of her and another possible sprint-finish.”
www.engineeringnews.co.za
08 September 2006
Ethiopia on Friday signed a $2,4-billion agreement with three Chinese companies to upgrade and expand telecommunication services in the Horn of Africa country, officials said. more >>
The Korean Times
08 September 2006
About 200 Korean War veterans from the United States and Ethiopia will arrive in South Korea Monday at the invitation of the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, a ministry spokesman said yesterday. more >>
07 September 2006
Addis Ababa - Ethiopia obtained 1.80 billion USD from the export sector during the ending budget year, the Ministry of Trade and Industry said. The revenue exceeded by 189.6 million USD compared to the preceding budget year. more >>
By Wudineh Zenebe - Fortune staff writer
06 September 2006
The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority has planned to equip the Bahr Dar, Mekelle and Dire Dawa airports with all the facilities of an international airport, including light systems for the runways and other traffic control systems and efficient manpower to run a 24 hours service. These changes are to be made in the current fiscal year. The Authority has reserved a budget of 250 million Br for the airports and other 20 projects it envisaged to do this year. more >>
One dead at Adama
By Groum Abate - Capital
06 September 2006
Two buildings housing student dormitories in Jimma University , have been burned down after ethnic violence erupted at the university. more >>
By staff writer - afrol News
05 September 2006
The Eritrean government has expelled five UN staff members "who were involved in spying activities" in its latest attack against the UN peacekeeping mission. Eritrea earlier has accused the UN's mission, which oversees the fragile peace with Ethiopia, of "destabilising" the country, defending Ethiopian interests and smuggling people and goods. more >>
05 September 2006
A diarrhoea outbreak in Ethiopia has infected at least 15 000 people and killed 148, the United Nations said on Tuesday. more >>
By Wudineh Zenebe - Fortune Staff Writer
05 September 2006
In an unexpected turn of events, an expert at the Ministry of Water Resources has resigned and has left the country. Musa Mohammed, head of the Trans-boundary Rivers Affairs Department, was a revered figure in the Nile Basin Initiative; his departure leaves the Ministry with the difficult challenge of replacing someone with his level of experience, according to informed sources. more >>
05 September 2006
ADDIS ABABA—ETHIOPIA has asked the Nigerian government to allow it engage the services of 600 professors, Nigeria’s Ambassador to Ethiopia, Olusegun Akinsanya has said. Akinsanya told newsmen yesterday in Addis Ababa that the Ethiopian government wanted to recruit the professors to teach in the 12 new universities established in the country. more >>
04 September 2006
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia becomes the leading African coffee supplier to the international market both in quality and quantity, State Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development said. more >>
By TAGU ZERGAW - FORTUNE STAFF WRITER
04 September 2006
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is collecting financial data in order to cancel bills that have proven impossible to collect. more >>
04 September 2006
It was a particularly tough afternoon for Tirunesh Dibaba, one of the Jackpot contenders setting out for a perfect set of six victories. Once again, it came down to a final lap sprint between the World champion, and her compatriot, the Olympic titleholder, Meseret Defar. Dibaba, had always prevailed in this dash for the line in the previous five Golden League meets but today as Defar closed on her shoulder with 250m to go, we sensed an upset as Dibaba didn’t immediately respond. more >>
01 September 2006
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopia’s World 5000m and 5000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba is within touching distance of a share of the IAAF Golden League Jackpot. The DKB-ISTAF Berlin, the final meeting of the series, takes place this Sunday (3 Sep) at the world famous 1936 Olympic stadium in the German capital.
“My objective this season was to break the World 5000m record in Oslo,” confirms Dibaba. “But after running a personal best in Oslo, a lot of Ethiopians both at home and in Norway encouraged me to run the entire Golden League series. They were saying that Kenenisa (Bekele) and I will would do the country proud and that lifted my confidence. When Kenenisa lost (out on the possibility of six wins when defeated in Oslo), I knew the pressure was on me to keep Ethiopian interests for six wins alive. I am still surprised when I reflect how my season has progressed.” more >>
By Eskinder Michael - Capital
01 September 2006
After acquiring an unfinished resort hotel in Bahir Dar for 45 million birr from the Development Bank of Ethiopia , Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi has bought a modern Swedish made boat for 1 million Euros. more >>
By Groum Abate - Capital
01 September 2006
Ethiopian Airlines (EAL) has announced net profits of over 125 million birr during the past fiscal year. The national carrier is also expanding skilled human capital through successive training programs and raising the profile of the airline by purchasing the latest aircraft. more >>
Diaspora's current account limit jumps from 5,000 to 50,000USD
By Tedla Yeneakal - Capital
01 September 2006
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) announced this week that it has issued three directives, including a decree forcing all banks nationwide to open a separate window for money transfer services and use new Swift transfer service technology to reduce the remittance charge, the Bank disclosed to Capital. more >>