30 September, 2008
It is fitting that one of the most signature discoveries of humankind -- a finding that has helped define a big part of our prehistory -- would take place in one of the most unusual and historic places on the planet. more >>
29 September, 2008
(Capital) - Ethiopia Hotels Enterprise, located on Ras Abebe Aregay Avenue in front of the Ministry of Defense has been put up for auction by the Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA), for a joint venture investment. more >>
28 September, 2008
BERLIN (AP) - Haile Gebrselassie broke his own marathon world record on Sunday, becoming the first runner to finish under 2 hours, 4 minutes. more >>
28 September, 2008
(ADDIS ABABA) — The state owned Ethiopian radio and TV agency (ERTA) reduced drastically earlier this month the majority of airtime of the Affaan Oromo TV program. The decision left some 60 Oromo journalist jobless and raised anger. more >>
28 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (AFP) - At least three people were killed and 15 injured Sunday in an explosion in eastern Ethiopia, as investigators scrambled to determine if it was an act of terrorism or an accident, police said. more >>
28 September, 2008
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Saturday he was concerned by the seizure of a Ukrainian ship off Somalia carrying military supplies and feared they would be used to further destabilize the region. more >>
26 September, 2008
The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today pledged support to strengthen Ethiopia’s emergency preparedness and improve conditions for people confronted by the food security crisis, cross-border displacement and communicable diseases. more >>
26 September, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - After nearly 20 years of violent chaos, Islamic extremism and failed peace talks, impoverished Somalia might seem to have hit rock-bottom. But things are getting worse. more >>
25 September, 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Nearly two years after being driven from Mogadishu, Islamists have re-taken swathes of south Somalia and may have their sights again on the capital. more >>
23 September, 2008
The Addis Abeba City Government Cabinet has approved a more than 50pc increase in the price on condominiums due to the soaring cost of construction materials. more >>
22 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's commodity exchange plans to trade coffee through a new electronic system, starting next month, the exchange said on Monday. more >>
21 September, 2008
Landslide incidents at the Abay River Gorge called for a close follow-up for the newly-built bridge crossing the river, it was learnt. more >>
21 September, 2008
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African President Thabo Mbeki on Saturday accepted a demand from his own party to resign, effectively ending a nine-year rule marked by economic prosperity but marred by allegations of abuse of power. more >>
21 September, 2008
An Ethiopian-born American, Mimi Alemayehou, has been nominated by President George W. Bush to be the new director of the African Development Bank. more >>
21 September, 2008
“Traditionally, the party strongly believed that actions spoke louder than words. But in a country where action is overshadowed by lip service more >>
21 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A lion ate a local man in eastern Ethiopia after escaping from a game park, police said on Sunday. more >>
20 September, 2008
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Senior Eritrean officials should be banned from travelling to Europe to pressure the Red Sea state into improving its human rights record, a media rights group said on Wednesday. more >>
18 September, 2008
Ethiopia has been accused of deliberately underestimating the scale of a deadly drought facing millions of its people, some of whom are being deprived of emergency food aid by the country’s military. more >>
18 September, 2008
Ethiopian football is in tatters with the country banned by Fifa and having been thrown out of the 2010 World Cup and Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers. more >>
18 September, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council rebuked Eritrea on Wednesday for refusing to cooperate with a U.N. investigation of clashes on its border with Djibouti that left a number of Djiboutian soldiers dead. more >>
16 September, 2008
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has announced that mobile phone subscribers’ number will reach eight million by December 2008 including the two million SIM cards that were released in last August. more >>
16 September, 2008
Ethiopia will export 24,000tn of raw sugar in the current fiscal year to European markets duty-free under the Everything But Arms (EBA) initiative, a special arrangement EU has granted to least developed countries. more >>
16 September, 2008
Zimbabwe's Prime Minister-designate Morgan Tsvangirai has said President Robert Mugabe has nothing to fear from the historic deal signed on Monday. more >>
15 September, 2008
MOGADISHU (AFP) - Somalia's hardline Islamist militia, Al-Shebab, has issued an ultimatum ordering all traffic in and out of Mogadishu airport to cease as of Tuesday. more >>
15 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Two Ethiopian companies said on Monday they will work with Chinese telecoms gear maker ZTE Corp (0763.HK: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) to build the African nation's first mobile phone assembly plant. more >>
14 September, 2008
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's Jolie-Pitt Foundation has made a $2 million donation to the Global Health Committee to establish a center to aid children affected by tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. more >>
14 September, 2008
MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali Islamists have threatened to stop planes using Mogadishu's main airport as part of an escalating insurgency rocking the Horn of Africa nation. more >>
14 September, 2008
HARARE (AFP) - Zimbabwe's leaders are set to sign a historic deal Monday to divide power among political rivals after months of ruinous standoff between President Robert Mugabe and the opposition. more >>
12 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia has said its neighbour and foe Eritrea is "incapable" of launching a war across its border even as regional diplomats fear the withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers has heightened that possibility. more >>
12 September, 2008
The Bureau of the Organising Committee for the FIFA World Cup™ has decided to exclude the Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) from the preliminary competition with immediate effect. more >>
12 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (IRIN) - Fewer Ethiopian parents are subjecting their daughters to female genital mutilation and cutting (FGM), according to an NGO campaigning to eradicate the practice. more >>
12 September, 2008
The immigration authorities of Canada refused to grant an entry visa to Eritrea's Foreign Minister a few weeks ago. The Foreign Minister was scheduled to address the sizeable Eritrean community in that country. more >>
11 September, 2008
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia has awarded two Beijing Olympics double gold winners —Tirunesh Dibaba and Kenenisa Bekele more >>
11 September, 2008
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia on Wednesday ordered over 1,000 factories to switch off their electricity supply to avoid blackouts during the celebration of the country New Year which falls on Thursday. more >>
11 September, 2008
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopia on Wednesday released 394 prisoners to mark the celebration of the country’s New Year on Thursday. more >>
10 September, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - The new Abay Bridge constructed with the support from the government of Japan was inaugurated on Wednesday. more >>
09 September, 2008
APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) The price of chicken in Ethiopia is up by 100% this week while the country is gearing up to celebrate the Ethiopian NewYear-Enkutatash (gift of jewels) on Thursday. more >>
09 September, 2008
MANILA — The Dominican Province of the Philippines is set to open the first Catholic university in Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, eastern African country. more >>
09 September, 2008
This year's New Year shopping cost has stayed the same as compared to last month for customary food, such as eggs and poultry, sheep, goats and oxen prices, according to Capital's market assessment. more >>
09 September, 2008
PARIS (Xinhua) -- The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday awarded NGOs from South Africa and Ethiopia the Confucius Prize for Literacy for their outstanding efforts to eliminate illiteracy and promote public health awareness in their countries. more >>
09 September, 2008
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. humanitarian office said Monday that food shortages in Ethiopia have reached alarming levels following widespread drought in the country. more >>
08 September, 2008
ADDIS ABEBA - Ethiopia should concentrate on building its defense for the sake of stabilizing and creating suitable condition for economic development, a former General called on. more >>
08 September, 2008
A condominium structure consists of multi-unit dwellings where each unit is individually owned and the common areas, such as corridors recreational facilities, places reserved for slaughtering animals and parking space are communally used by tenants. more >>
06 September, 2008
It is not enough for slave-masters and colonialists to apologise for barbaric greed. The former colonial powers must pay compensation for the wreckage, debris and havoc they left behind which still influences the ability of those who had been colonized to emerge with freedom to pursue structural transformation. more >>
06 September, 2008
When on August 28 Amare Aregawi was released from a Gondar prison, he was told by the court that his next “pre-trial hearing” was on September 1. He went back to Gondar on the specified date only to find out that he could not appear before the court. more >>
04 September, 2008
AXUM, Ethiopia (AFP) - Ethiopia on Thursday unveiled its famed Axum Obelisk after more than three years of work to re-erect the 150-ton stela plundered by fascist Italy 70 years ago and returned only in 2005. more >>
03 September, 2008
Addis Ababa (ENA) - The Ministry of Information announced that inauguration of the re-erected Axum obelisk has given additional color for ongoing Ethiopian Millennium Celebrations. more >>
03 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A blast at a bar in the Ethiopian capital has killed three and wounded 12 others on Wednesday, an eye witness told Reuters. more >>
03 September, 2008
The Department of Homeland Security should not use the user-generated Wikipedia to decide whether an asylum seeker can enter the United States, a federal appeals court ruled Friday. more >>
02 September, 2008
VENICE, Italy (AFP) — Mengistu's blood-drenched Ethiopia was the backdrop in Venice on Tuesday for filmmaker Haile Gerima's "Teza," his attempt to reconcile an idyllic childhood with modern realities. more >>
02 September, 2008
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia imported 102,072 tonnes of sugar in 2007/08 to meet growing domestic demand while also exporting 21,700 tonnes of raw sugar to generate foreign currency, a government official said on Tuesday. more >>
02 September, 2008
A Nigerian religious leader with 86 wives has accepted an Islamic decree ordering him to divorce all but four of them, local authorities say. more >>
01 September, 2008
ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia (AFP) - The top UN aid official John Holmes on Monday called for greater international efforts to help millions of Ethiopians suffering from a severe drought. more >>
01 September, 2008
Five women were buried alive by their tribe in a mass honour killing prompted by their wish to choose their own husbands. more >>
01 September, 2008
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has signed an agreement to pay Libya $5bn as part of a deal to resolve colonial-era disputes. more >>