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UN urges Eritrea to cooperate in relocation of peacekeepers (Source: WIC)
UK teacher escapes Ethiopia jail
BBC News via Yahoo! News - Mar 07, 2008
A British teacher has escaped jail in Ethiopia over comments she made when exposing paedophiles at a children's charity.
UN Secretary-General says Eritrea breaching fundamental principles of peacekeeping
Addis Ababa, March 7 (WIC) – Eritrea’s restrictions on the activities of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) breach the fundamental principles of peacekeeping and raise serious implications for the safety and security of blue helmets deployed around the world, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report made public yesterday. (Source: WIC) |
Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS, March 6 (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged the Security Council to take up a border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia which could ...
PM in rural areas of region 3
March 06/2008
PM Meles's Discussion With Various Segments of the Society Representing Woredas in the Amhara Regional State (Source: Aiga)
Ethiopian Exports to United States Nearly Double in Two Years (USAID, Feb27, 2008)
PRO-ETHIOPIA MILITIA FOIL ATTEMPT TO KIDNAP FOREIGN TOURISTS: STATE TV
The Tocqueville Connection via Yahoo! News - Feb 20, 2008 11:46 AM
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 20, 2008 (AFP) - Pro-Ethiopia militia on Wednesday foiled an attempt by rebels allegedly backed by arch-foe Eritrea from abducting 28 foreign tourists in its remote northern Afar region, the state media reported.
AllAfrica.com via Yahoo! News - Feb 19, 2008
Ethiopia, Africa's top coffee grower, plans to boost production by 20 percent over five years from an estimated 400,000 tonnes in the 2007/08 (July-June) crop year, Reuters news agency reported citing a senior agriculture official as saying on Friday.
Flowers are sign of economic change in Ethiopia
Times of Malta via Yahoo! News - Feb 17, 2008
People work at the 'packhouse' where flowers are de-leafed and boxed for export in Addis Ababa. The Ethiopian flower industry is booming and the country has exported up to two million stems a day in the two weeks leading up to Valentine's Day.
The Specialty Coffee Association of America today announced that Ethiopia will be the featured Portrait Country Sponsor for the 20th Annual SCAA Conference & Exhibition to be held in Minneapolis next May 2-5, 2008.
Ethiopia to boost coffee exports
Express India via Yahoo! News - Feb 15, 2008
Ethiopia, Africa's biggest coffee exporter, plans to increase exports by about a third this year and will encourage foreign participation in the industry to help expand production.
U.S. aid team starts work in Ethiopia's Ogaden
AlertNet via Yahoo! News - Jan 04, 2008
Source: Reuters ADDIS ABABA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - A U.S. team has started an assessment of the aid situation in Ethiopia's troubled Ogaden region, the U.S. embassy said, after conflict there fuelled fears of a ...
Nation secures over 331 billion birr from local, foreign investors
Addis Ababa, January 3, 2008 (WIC) - More than 331 billion birr has been obtained from local and foreign entrepreneurs who have embarked upon investment activities during the last 16 years, according to the Ethiopian Investment Agency..
Ethiopia in Somalia: One year on
BBC News via Yahoo! News - Dec 27, 2007
A year after its troops entered Mogadishu, Ethiopia is increasingly bogged down in Somalia yet dare not withdraw, says Africa analyst Martin Plaut.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission monitoring the ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea today called on both sides to show maximum restraint after a shooting incident in the border area where the two countries fought a two-year war that ended in 2000.
Ethiopia claimed on Saturday it was receiving an influx of around 600 Eritreans fleeing political oppression in their country every month.
Ethiopia: World Bank Provides Additional Usd 215mln for Basic Services
AllAfrica.com via Yahoo! News - Dec 22, 2007
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors on Friday approved a US$215 million International Development Association (IDA) grant to the Government of Ethiopia to continue protecting and promoting the delivery of basic services by sub-national governments while deepening transparency and local accountability in service delivery.
The European Commission said on Thursday it awarded 9.5 Million Ethiopian Birr for capacity building of Civil Society Organisations in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said it had signed an agreement with an Indian mining firm on Tuesday to establish a $451 million factory to mine potash, a key ingredient in fertiliser, in the arid Afar desert.
After a 23-year-service in the Ministry of Trade and Industry, Nigest Haile three years ago launched an indigenous NGO she thought would empower businesswomen in Ethiopia better than a department at the ministry she was heading - Women Affairs Department - could do.
ADDIS ABABA, Dec 10 - Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL ] and China's Sinopec remain in talks to resume oil and gas prospecting in Ethiopia's Ogaden region, where rebels killed Chinese workers in April, the Ethiopian government said on Monday.
Ethiopia's Ambesse Tolossa won the men's division of The Honolulu Marathon for the second consecutive year, again holding off rival and five-time champion Jimmy Muindi of Kenya.
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urges Ethiopia to ease conditions in the Ogaden region
Eastern Ethiopia faces possible famine, Somalia is on the threshold of a severe humanitarian crisis, and Darfur's humanitarian situation is deteriorating.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Ethiopia on Wednesday to avoid acts that would raise tensions with Eritrea but got new promises from Africa's Great Lakes nations to end fighting in eastern Congo.
U.N. undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs John Holmes is expected to make a two-day visit to Ethiopia later this month to inspect UN relief operations in the country, particularly the Ogaden region bordering Somalia where operations have began a couple of weeks ago.
Ethiopia Gets First Auto Plant, With Help From China
Edmunds.com via Yahoo! News - Nov 10, 2007
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Holland Car, the first and only car assembly plant in the African country of Ethiopia, has just launched local production of the Chinese Lifan 520 under the name Abay.
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Ethiopia: Malnutrition in Ethiopia Still Alarming
AllAfrica.com via Yahoo! News - Nov 05, 2007
Between one-third and two-thirds of children under-five in Ethiopia suffer from a chronic malnutrition, according to a new research conducted by Save the Children.
It was almost ten years since Ethiopia engaged in a massive road sector development programme (RSDP I and II), constructing, upgrading and maintaining a total of 78,569 km of roads with a total cost of 25.4 billion birr.
Global Energy Ethiopia building bio-diesel plant that produces 40,000 tons of crude oil annually
Addis Ababa, November 05, 2007 (WIC) - Global Energy Ethiopia has begun building a bio-diesel factory in southern Ethiopia which will produce 40,000 tons of crude oil annually, according to Africannews.com. (Source: WIC) |
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Senate Foreign Relations Sub-Committee on African Affairs :
Horn of Africa Hearing including Ethiopia, March 11, 2008 (Video)
(Source: Kinijit News)
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