Ethiopia conducts mass HIV testing as part of world record bid
December 2, 2014 To mark World AIDS Day, Ethiopia has conducted a mass HIV testing campaign in an attempt to set a new world record for the most number of people HIV tested in single venue in an...
View ArticleEthiopia: Ethiopian Awarded Title of Best Airline of the Year From Africa By...
Ethiopian Airlines has been awarded the title of the Best Airline of the Year from Africa by the Kuala Lumpur International Airport this week. Tewolde Gebremariam, Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO,...
View ArticleEthiopia: Ethio-South Africa Business Forum Opens in Addis Ababa
The Ethio-South Africa Pre-investment Trade Mission meeting opened today at the Ellile Hotel, Addis Ababa in the presence of higher government officials, South African investors, representatives of...
View ArticlePress 4 for fertilizer - M-farming a big hit in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, 3 December 2014 - One reason farmers in Africa mostly produce so much less than those in other parts of the world is that they have limited access to the technical knowledge and practical...
View ArticleSaudi investing $100M in Ethiopian farm
Saudi Star Agricultural Development, an Ethiopian company owned by billionaire Mohamed al- Amoudi, said it plans to invest $100 million in a rice farm in western Ethiopia next year to kick-start the...
View ArticleEthiopia's Outstanding Progress in the Fight Against Hunger
Ejegu Belay Last week, Ethiopians and friends of Ethiopia received a good news from the Headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations . The Director-General of UNFAO...
View ArticleAddis Residents donate more than 43 millio...
Residents of Addis Ababa City Administration have contributed more than 43 million EB while they were welcoming and see off the Cup awarded to the Ethiopian people by late Meles Zenawi for their...
View ArticlePortlanders will run half-naked through the city in the cold: Santa Speedo...
Portland's annual Santa Speedo Run encourages participants to run half-naked through the cold city streets. There are plenty of ways to celebrate the season.
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines enters Qatar with Addis Ababa-Doha route - Thursday, 04...
Ethiopian Airlines, which saw its traffic growing by 13% in FY13, touched down at Doha on 2 December, when it launched operations from its Addis Ababa base via Dammam. The 2,480-kilometre sector will...
View ArticleSenior UN relief official describes "bleak" situation in South Sudan after a...
South Sudanese refugees at the Kule camp near the Pagak border entry point in the Gambella region of Ethiopia. Photo: IRIN/Binyam Tamene 4 December 2014 – A year of conflict has "devastated"...
View ArticleAbdel Nour in Ethiopia for Africa trade zone talks
Addis Ababa, 03 December 2014 - Egypt's trade minister is flying to the Ethiopian capital on Tuesday for a meeting by the African Union's trade ministers from 3 to 5 December that will discuss the...
View ArticleToll road may expand to Addis
The Adama Toll Roadis success, may lead the Ministry of Transport to expanding the toll road to the capital city. The nationis first toll road has been earning an average of 350,000 birr per day so it...
View ArticleMbeki adjourns Sudan's Darfur peace talks indefinitely
December 4, 2014 Thabo Mbeki, the African Union's chief mediator, announced on Thursday that peace talks on Sudan's troubled Darfur region would be adjourned indefinitely. Chief AU mediator and former...
View ArticleInsurance for Ethiopian herders aims to combat drought, conflict
YABELO, Ethiopia - N omadic livestock herders in Ethiopia have received their first payout from an insurance scheme that tracks poor pasture conditions with satellite technology. Ethiopia has...
View ArticleTulip solar power system gets its first commercial application
For five years now, a Tulip concentrating solar power plant has been operating at a kibbutz in Israel. In January 2012, a second one sprouted in Spain.
View ArticleHow 'I can't breathe' resonates around the world
At Dire Dawa University in Ethiopia, students asked me last year about gun violence in America. I was on a trip to Africa representing the State Department as a public diplomat, explaining the values...
View ArticleEthiopia disavows Sudanese opposition meeting
The Ethiopian government on Friday disavowed a recent meeting of the Sudanese opposition, which called for the overthrow of the Sudanese regime. Leaders of opposition parties and armed groups held a...
View ArticleConstitution helps promote solidarity, tolerance: GCAO - Friday, 05 December...
Government Communication Affairs Office said Ethiopia has promoted unity, diversity and equality among Nations, Nationalities and Peoples of the country following the ratification of the Constitution...
View ArticleAddis to host 12th African Junio...
The Ethiopian Athletics Federation has announced yesterday that Addis Ababa will host the 12th African Junior Athletics Championships, which will be held from February 10 to March 8, 2015. Abdisa...
View ArticleMetabolic syndrome among hypertensive patients at University of...
Data is sparse concerning the magnitude of metabolic syndrome in developing countries like Ethiopia whose major health problem had long been under-nutrition and infectious diseases rather than...
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