Ethiopia: Fast-Growing Capital Aims to Become Greener and Cleaner
Ethiopia's capital city, Addis Ababa, has a name that means "new flower". But for the 4 million plus people living there, it's more likely to conjure up images of worsening pollution and traffic gridlock.
View ArticleEgypt: Ethiopian Water Minister Hails Egypt Decision to Resume Dam Talks
Ethiopian Water and Energy Minister Alemayehu Tegenu hailed Egypt's decision to resume the three-way dialogue with Sudan and Ethiopia on the Renaissance Dam last August. He also applauded the positive...
View ArticleEthiopia Shows Developing World How to Make a Green Economy Prosper
The GIZ, German government-backed international enterprise for sustainable development, Sustainable Land Management programme in northern Ethiopia. The programme includes promoting the use of...
View ArticleEthiopia: Govt On Alert Against Al shabaab Attacks
Ambassador Taye Atsle Selassie from that ministry told that to international diplomats in Addis Ababa yesterday. This followed after the US Embassy in Addis Ababa said it has credible information that...
View ArticleKenya: Army Kill Gunmen, Seize Explosives
A four-wheel drive vehicle was intercepted at the Kenya-Ethiopia boarder as it tried to cross into Kenya laden with explosives on Saturday. Kenya Defence Forces under AMISOM together with Somali...
View ArticleReligious Extremism on Both Side of the Fence
There have been many things said about faith and religion. In my view faith or religion is an individual and personal intrinsic wealth, and not a merchandise or commodity that's meant to be...
View ArticleEgypt: Crisscrossing
Though Ethiopia has repeatedly asserted that GERD has no significant harm on Sudan and Egypt, they were skeptic and nervous about the potential impact the project. As Ethiopia's assertion of "no...
View ArticleEthiopia selects int'l banks for its Euro Bond
Ethiopia is said to come to an agreement with three international financial institutions; the US based JP Morgan, the French BNP Paribas and the German Deutsche Bank for the sale of bonds. Sources told...
View ArticleHailemariam: Ethiopia will register double digit growth
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said that the country will attain the 11.4 percent economic growth it has planned for this fiscal year. He said this while the House of People's Representative...
View ArticleEthiopia: Ethiopian, ANA Launch Codeshare Agreement
From October 26, 2014, ANA passengers will be able to book connecting flights on Ethiopian Airlines between Addis Ababa and Bangkok, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Nairobi and Mombasa through...
View ArticleEthiopia highlights "developing countries how to make a green economy prosper"
Ethiopia was emerging as an exemplary model to the rest of the world in terms of addressing climate change challenges while making advances on the economic front, Fritz Jung, the representative of...
View ArticleWyndham Hotel Group grows African portfolio with first hotel in Ethiopia.
Wyndham Hotel Group announced the signing of a management agreement for the Hotel Group's first property in Ethiopia, the 136-room Ramada Addis; Upon opening in the first half of next year, Ramada...
View ArticleExecutive Committee discuss 2nd GTP designing package - Saturday, 18 October...
Addis Ababa, 18 October 2014 - Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front Executive Committee have discussed on the designing package of Second Five Years' Growth and Transformation Plan of the...
View ArticleEthio-Somalia relations growing beyond peace, security cooperation:...
Ethiopian Ambassador to Somalia, Wondimu Asmamaw, said the relation between Somalia and Ethiopia is not only limited to regional peace and security, but also includes education, transport, trade and...
View ArticleKenyan military kill five militants, seize TNT explosives
Kenyan soldiers have killed five suspected al Shabaab militants near the border with Ethiopia and recovered a vehicle packed with explosives, preventing a potentially huge attack, a defence spokesman...
View ArticleEthiopia, a great new frontier i...
Ethiopia is not often associated with tourism, but as Fionn Davenport heard today during The Irish Times travel podcast, that might be changing. Ethiopia is easy to get to, with direct flights from...
View ArticleEthiopia Moves in Right Direction with Climate Change Response But Challenges...
Ethiopia has an estimated 70 million smallholder farmers, many of whom only grow sufficient amounts of crops like grain and coffee to support their families like those in Lalibela, Amhara Region....
View ArticleEthiopia's economic diplomacy bearing fruit - Tuesday, 21 October 2014 08:34
Ethiopia has given top priority to the kernel of the entire diplomacy; economic diplomacy, as the nation has one formidable enemy; poverty or backwardness. To effectively combat and eradicate poverty...
View ArticleRub out Mbabazi, Uganda, and you get VP Mujuru and Zimbabwe in another...
Mujuru is also vice president of the ruling ZANU-PF. She was in the bush, rising to junior commander of Mugabe's ZANLA rebel forces, so you can say she fought for her place at the table It is not only...
View ArticleDoctor who helped tell world of Ethiopian famine calls for action on Ebola
It was television news that changed the world, forced wealthy Western audiences in their living rooms to confront pitiful, starving African children and drove Irish rocker Bob Geldof on a quest to end...
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