Africans seeking better lives pass through Ethiopian town
Dozens of houses on the hot, dusty main road that stretches from Ethiopia into Sudan look like they have been hastily closed. Guards grimly patrol the border, stopping anyone who looks like an illegal...
View ArticleIn Pictures: Hacking Team's hack curated
Specializing in surveillance technology, Hacking Team has gotten a lesson in how it feels to have outsiders monitoring their affairs, all while privacy advocates enjoy a bit of schadenfreude at their...
View ArticleFoul: It's What's for Breakfast at Sudan Cafe & Khairat Injera Bakery
In the United States, Sudan is known mostly as the place the Lost Boys fled and as the most recent country to bifurcate into two separate nations, with South Sudan becoming the newest country in the...
View ArticleEthiopian parliament approves 223.39 billion EB annual budgets - Tuesday, 07...
Addis Ababa, 07 July, 2015 - The House of People's Representatives has approved 223.39 billion EB for the next budget year. In its today's session, the Parliament approved a total budget of 223.39...
View ArticleManufacturing sector registers 22 percents of annual growth - Tuesday, 07...
Addis Ababa, 07 July 2015 A - Ethiopian Ministry of Industry says the manufacturing sector has registered an average annual growth of 22 per cent in the past five years of the GTP period. During the...
View ArticleEuropean Council on Tourism and Trade chose Ethiopia for World best tourist...
General Assembly of the European Council on Tourism and Trade , has chosen Ethiopia as the number one World Best Tourist Destination and Favorite Cultural Destination for 2015 On June 25, 2015 the...
View ArticleEritrea sees UN scrutiny, migrant exodus as part of 'conspiracy'
A top Eritrean diplomat said human traffickers, not rights abuses, were driving people to leave the impoverished African country, after a U.N. body accused the government of presiding over forced...
View ArticleChina steps up Africa investments role with launch of trust fund and think tank
Addis Ababa, 8 July 2015 - The World Bank Group has said it will host an "infrastructure-focused" trust fund being set up by China's finance ministry that will offer "strong support to African...
View ArticleEuropean Group Picks Ethiopia as Top Global Tourist Destination for 2015
Good news for tourism on a continent that's been hit with scares - both real and illogical - that have hurt tourism over the last year. Ethiopia has been chosen as this year's top destination in the...
View ArticleA way out of the crisis in South Sudan
This month, President Obama will make his fourth trip to Africa, visiting Kenya for the Global Entrepreneurship Summit and Ethiopia for meetings with Ethiopian and African Union leaders. This will...
View ArticleDevelopment financing conference to agree 'concrete' action on social ...
"The Third International Conference on Financing for Development next week will be the first of three major global events taking place this year, followed by the September summit in New York for the...
View ArticleEthiopia releases detained bloggers and journalists
Five bloggers and journalists jailed for over a year released in Addis Ababa weeks ahead of Obama's visit to country. The release comes just a few weeks before US President Barack Obama's visit to the...
View ArticleFirst Students to Graduate from Volvoa s Vocational Training School in Ethiopia
When the students receive their diplomas following three years of study, they will represent highly sought-after skilled labor in a country with a shortage of vehicle technicians. Ethiopia is a country...
View ArticleEthiopian Airlines' inaugural flight lands in NAIA Terminal 1
Ethiopian Airlines, Ethiopia's flag carrier, finally touched down at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 1 Thursday night marking its inaugural flight to Manila. Travelers may soon start...
View ArticleLeaders urged to mobilise resources for dev't
Ugandans stand to gain if next week's African summit in the Ethiopian capital addresses challenges affecting mobilization of resources in the economy, says Alvin Munyansia, an official of the Pan...
View ArticleEthiopia, 30 years on from famine and Live Aid
Three decades ago, the world looked on in horror at images of dying famine victims in Ethiopia, as musicians led the giant global fundraising concert, Live Aid. Today, Ethiopia's northeastern Tigray...
View ArticleAMI welcomes release of five Ethiopian journalists and bloggers from custody
Nairobi, July 9, 2015- The African Media Initiative welcomes news of the release this week from prison in Ethiopia of three journalists and two bloggers, who had been incarcerated on charges of...
View ArticleEthiopia police: 30 armed people killed on Eritrea border
The defense in the Colorado theater shooting trial has rested after trying to show gunman James Holmes was insane at the time of the 2012 attack. The defense in the Colorado theater shooting trial...
View ArticleWorld looks to Ethiopia to break deadlock over financing new development goals
Negotiators locked horns until 2 a.m. some nights in New York this past month, trying to agree on a way to finance the United Nation's bold new global development agenda -- without success. The...
View ArticleEU pushes private finance as report casts new doubt on costs for poorest
The EU wants to plug the developing world's infrastructure needs with private finance, ahead of a UN summit on development funding. The EU is pushing plans to expand the role of private finance in...
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