30 September, 2007
Haile Gebrselassie broke the marathon world record in Berlin on Sunday, posting an official time of two hours, four minutes and 26 seconds. more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
28 September, 2007
This week Addis Ababa is playing host to a gathering of church leaders from all over the world. Ethiopia - which follows its own ancient Coptic calendar - has just celebrated the start of the new millennium. more >>
Embassy of Ethiopia, Washington, DC
27 September, 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 Dan Robinson - Capitol Hill VOA News
27 September, 2007
A key congressional committee has approved legislation supporting democracy and human rights in Ethiopia. more >>
26 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA — China has loaned Ethiopia more than $200m to boost cement production and hydroelectric power generation. more >>
26 September, 2007
Singapore is the best place in the world to do business in, live is improving fastest for the businessmen of Egypt, and Russia ranks 106th out of 178 in the World Bank – International Finance Corp. more >>
26 September, 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Eritrea on Wednesday reacted coolly to a threat by its arch-foe Ethiopia to abandon a peace agreement that ended their 1998-2000 war and whose implementation has stalled. more >>
25 September, 2007
Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has today transmitted a letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Eritrea by which the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia notifies the State of Eritrea of its material breaches of the Algiers Agreements more >>
By Staff Reporter - Capital
25 September, 2007
Ethiopia is the only country not to have a community radio among all other African countries. This was emphasized at a workshop which discussed community radio for civil society held at the Ghion Hotel on September 21, 2007. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
25 September, 2007
Ethiopia is to establish a grand library within a few months, Capital learnt. The library will be built in Addis Ababa in a plot granted by the government behind the Flamingo Restaurant and Bar located just near Meskal Square on Bole Road. more >>
24 September, 2007
DUBAI: India's Cadila Pharmaceuticals has opened its first overseas formulation manufacturing facility in Ethiopia, for which the Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA) had given its nod. more >>
Tia Goldenberg | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
23 September, 2007
In one of Addis Ababa's bustling and noisy coffee shops, where cups are clinking and the bubbling sound of a cappuccino machine undertones conversations, Ethiopians, who claim they live in the birthplace of java, while away a weekend morning. more >>
By Jim Snyder - TheHill.com
23 September, 2007
Members of an Ethiopian opposition party who were jailed for 20 months in connection with a disputed election are lobbying the Bush administration and Congress to pressure Ethiopia to support a more open and democratic society. more >>
23 September, 2007
The mobile phone giant Nokia, on Thursday launched the first mobile handsets that feature Amharic. more >>
By Aweys Yusuf and Abdi Sheikh
23 September, 2007
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalis in Mogadishu have broadly welcomed calls for an Arab-African peacekeeping force to replace Ethiopians troops supporting their interim government, which is being battered by an insurgency. more >>
23 September, 2007
HARGEISA, Somalia (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops arrested six men believed to be members of al Qaeda during a cross-border operation in the breakaway republic of Somaliland, a senior Somaliland official said on Saturday. more >>
21 September, 2007
Can't beat quality of life in Scandinavia, says world ranking
PARIS (AFP) - Nordic countries take the greatest care of their environment and their people, according to a ranking published on Thursday by the publication Reader's Digest. more >>
21 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - The United States said Friday it is donating 97 million dollars (69 million euros) to Ethiopia in recognition of the Horn of Africa country's "strategic importance." more >>
21 September, 2007
NAIROBI (AP/nasdaq)--Civilians are more afraid than ever of being targeted by fighting in Somalia's capital, where combatants pay children $100 to throw grenades and an insurgency rages unabated, a human rights expert said Friday. more >>
21 September, 2007
Nairobi, Kenya - The US may designate Eritrea a state sponsor of terrorism for its backing for insurgents fighting the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG), a US envoy hinted here Thursday. more >>
By Kirubel Tadesse - Capital
20 September, 2007
The Royal Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Ethiopia has put conditions on Oumra and Haj visa applicants from Ethiopia. The Embassy stated that all visa applicants should have an international passport and should be at least forty years old if traveling alone. more >>
20 September, 2007
HONG KONG -(Dow Jones)- Chinese telecommunications equipment and network supplier ZTE Corp. (0763.HK) said late Wednesday it signed an agreement to provide US$478 million worth of mobile network equipment and related engineering services to Ethiopian Telecommunication Corp. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
19 September, 2007
HARAR, Ethiopia - For 1,000 years, this city on a hilltop has been a center of Islamic faith in the Horn of Africa, with a forbidding, 13-foot wall surrounding ancient mosques and serpentine alleyways. more >>
By James Butty - Washington VOA News
19 September, 2007
Ethiopia’s main opposition, the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) says the struggle in Ethiopia is a struggle for democracy, and it hopes the United States will stand on the side of those fighting for democracy in Ethiopia. more >>
By JULIE HORBAL, SUN MEDIA
19 September, 2007
Dr. Stephen Brodovsky knows a thing or two about eye-opening journeys.
When Brodovsky boarded an Ethiopia-bound plane in early June, the Winnipeg
ophthalmologist took with him a box of donor corneas and plans to help reduce
blindness in the developing country. more >>
By LIZ ROBBINS www.nytimes.com
19 September, 2007
With a $500,000 prize at stake when the World Marathon Majors series concludes Nov. 4 at the New York City Marathon, Gete Wami of Ethiopia is planning a rare feat. more >>
18 September, 2007
Building a school for 500 children in Ethiopia has not been without its
setbacks, says Nicholas Garland
Three years ago, two friends – an Ethiopian woman and a Scotsman – decided
to build a school in Erfa, a village near one of Ethiopia’s holiest cities,
Lalibela. more >>
17 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Monday that Eritrea must change its stance if the protracted border dispute between the two countries is to be resolved. more >>
By TRYMAINE LEE New York Times
16 September, 2007
The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III has never had trouble getting his flock to follow his lead. But typically he does not have to lead them this far. more >>
By Yelibenwork Ayele - Ethiopian Reporter
16 September, 2007
On the eve of the new year and on Thursday the New Life Community Organization (NLCO) held lunch parties for the old men and women who live in nursing home at Kaliti to celebrate the onset of the third Ethiopia millennium with them. more >>
16 September, 2007
Brussels, Belgium – Ethiopia may have been seven years behind the rest of world in celebrating the third millennium this week but, give Meseret Defar a track and a clock, and the 23-year-old distance runner from Addis Ababa looks far ahead of her time. more >>
15 September, 2007
Addis Ababa - Prime Minister Meles Zenawi awarded Sheik Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi, the renowned tycoon, late Thursday with the ‘first special millennium golden medal’ for his exemplary deeds for the development of Ethiopia and its people. more >>
By Jack Kimball
15 September, 2007
ASMARA (Reuters) - Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki has backed a new Somali opposition alliance, saying arch-foe Ethiopia's fight against insurgents in Mogadishu was doomed to fail, state media reported on Saturday. more >>
By Katie Nguyen
13 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An export boom is likely to drive 10 percent annual economic growth in Ethiopia for the next few years, the finance minister said on Thursday, but added that the target was a minimum to tackle poverty. more >>
13 September, 2007
Addis Ababa - Expressing hope that Ethiopia would rank among middle-income countries in the next two decades, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has called on his compatriots to stay the course of the country`s renaissance. more >>
13 September, 2007
The Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin accuses Norway of supporting "terrorist groups" in Somalia, Eritrea and Sudan. "False allegations," replies Norwegian Parliamentary Secretary Raymond Johansen. more >>
Rob Crilly in Addis Ababa
11 September, 2007
The bunting is up, the streets have been swept and the city’s population
of stray dogs has dwindled overnight.
But while the elite of Addis Ababa prepare to usher in the new Coptic millennium
at a gala concert, many more say that they feel left out of the lavish celebrations. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse and Barry Malone
11 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters Life!) - Soldiers stood guard, partygoers changed into national costume, and goats were slaughtered in the countdown to Ethiopia's celebrations to ring in the new Millennium seven years after the rest of the world. more >>
By James Butty - Washington, D.C. VOA News
11 September, 2007
Ethiopia, the oldest independent country in Africa, will celebrate its millennium Wednesday, September 12. The Ethiopian calendar falls seven to eight years behind western dates as a result of the disparities between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church, concerning the date of the creation. more >>
Daily Monitor (Addis Ababa) - Endale Assefa
11 September, 2007
British Airways, the UK-based International airline has ended its representation in Ethiopia to make way for another UK Airway BMI in late October,2007. more >>
By Tsegaye Tadesse
11 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Monday its army was just metres apart from Eritrean soldiers who had moved into a buffer zone on the Horn of Africa foes' disputed border. more >>
By CATHERINE RIUNGU - www.nationmedia.com
10 September, 2007
Ethiopia is now Africa’s second largest flower exporter after Kenya, with its export earnings growing by 500 per cent over the past year. more >>
10 September, 2007
Seven years after most of the world marked the beginning of the 21st century, Ethiopia is finally approaching the year 2000. Thanks to its unique and ancient system of measuring time. more >>
By Barney Jopson in Addis Ababa
10 September, 2007
A senior US official has said for the first time that a “humanitarian crisis” is unfolding in Ethiopia’s Ogaden region, putting Washington at odds with the Addis Ababa government, which has rejected similar claims from aid organisations. more >>
By ALEX PERRY www.time.com
08 September, 2007
TIME: Many people outside Africa know Ethiopia primarily from television reports of the famine in 1984 and 1985.
Meles: That was clearly part of our reality. We cannot run away from it. Ethiopia is in the midst of a profound transformation. more >>
08 September, 2007
Addis Ababa - Jendayi Frazer, US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs urged the Eritrean government from its ill activities bent on destabilizing the Horn of Africa Region. more >>
08 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An international animal rights group condemned as "cruel and dangerous" Ethiopia's plans to poison tens of thousands of stray dogs as part of a mammoth clean-up campaign before Millennium celebrations next week. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
07 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - As Ethiopia prepares to celebrate the third millennium, the most popular joke in the capital goes like this: How do you say "millennium" in Amharic? more >>
By Elizabeth Blunt - BBC News, Addis Ababa
07 September, 2007
People in Ethiopia are preparing to celebrate the New Year on 12 September and for them, it will be very special - the start of the year 2000 and the beginning of millennium celebrations. more >>
By Timothy Gardner
07 September, 2007
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man who was elected mayor of Addis Ababa said he is not sure whether he can hold public demonstrations there, so he is visiting the United States and Europe seeking support for a new era of democracy in Ethiopia. more >>
by Peter Martell
07 September, 2007
ASMARA (AFP) - Somali opposition figures, including top Islamist leaders, opened a 10-day congress in Eritrea on Thursday with a call for a swift withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from their war-torn country. more >>
06 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - Ethiopia has stepped up recruitment and training of primary healthcare providers and is building more health centres in an effort to make such care available for all by 2010, health minister Tewodros Adhanom said. more >>
By ANITA POWELL, Associated Press Writer
06 September, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia - Authorities plan to kill tens of thousands of stray dogs in the Ethiopian capital using strychnine-laced meat, saying they want to eradicate rabies before next week's celebration of the Coptic millennium. more >>
05 September, 2007
The Cabinet of the Addis Abeba City Caretaker Administration has appointed Arkebe Oqubay, state minister of Works and Urban Development (MoWUD), as Board Chairman of the Addis Abeba Housing Development Project Office (AAHDPO) more >>
05 September, 2007
Bottle shortages are pushing the three state-owned brewers to import 10 million bottles at about 20 million Br as the only domestic bottle producer, Addis Abeba Bottle and Glass SC, has failed to meet the increasing market demand. more >>
05 September, 2007
The approximately 30 million dollar wind power project envisaged by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) attracted six international companies for the installation of a wind power generating turbine in Ashegode area of the Tigray Regional State. more >>
04 September, 2007
NAIROBI (IRIN) - The Ethiopian government has denied claims by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) that the medical NGO was being prevented from working in the troubled Somali region. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
03 September, 2007
The Dire Dawa Provisional Administrative Council is to start its own television named Dire TV, on Channel 9, the Administrative Council’s Information and Public Relations Head, Misrak Worku told Capital. more >>
By Tedla Desta - Capital
03 September, 2007
The Council of Ministers on Thursday, August 30, 2007 has decided that the salary of civil servants to be increased, Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Sufian Ahmed said. more >>
03 September, 2007
A group of Catholic priests have arrived in Ethiopia to join in the East African country’s celebration of the third Christian Millennium. more >>
01 September, 2007
OSAKA, Japan (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Olympic champion and world record holder Meseret Defar clinched her first world title with a decisive victory in the 5,000 metres on Saturday. more >>
By Martin Plaut _ BBC Africa editor
01 September, 2007
International aid agency Medecins Sans Frontiers has accused Ethiopia of denying it access to the country's eastern Ogaden region. more >>
by Sophie Mongalvy
01 September, 2007
KAMPALA (AFP) - Sitting side-saddle on the back of a moto-taxi whizzing through the Ugandan capital, Zelalem breathes in lungfulls of freedom after parting with most of his savings and risking his life to sneak out of his native Eritrea. more >>