Coffee quality control lab inaugurated - Wednesday, 22 May 2013 12:15
METAD/Kabu Coffee Quality Control Laboratory has become the first privately owned African laboratory certified by the Specialty Coffee Association of America , the world's largest coffee trade...
View ArticleStaff keen to back anti-corruption campaign - Thursday, 23 May 2013 06:25
The staff of Dire Dawa Land Administration Bureau expressed their determination to back government's anti-corruption campaign.
View ArticleChina offers nearly US$ 3 bln loan for Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway -...
Ethiopia, Djibouti and China on Wednesday signed a loan agreement of nearly US$ 3 billion to run the construction of the 756km Addis Ababa-Djibouti railway project.
View ArticleYMCA's P.G. chief visit Ethiopia
The CEO of the YMCA of Northern B.C. made a visit to Ethiopia last month as part of the British Columbia YMCA's partnership with the northern African country.
View ArticleAnti Corruption Commission targets land fraud next
Following last week's shocking announcement of the sudden arrest of the Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority's top officials, the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission continued its campaign...
View ArticleCombating Obstetric Fistula
An Ethiopian woman sits on her bed inside a clinic for obstetric fistula in Bahir Dar on March 10, 2007 .
View ArticleHamid Ansari to represent India at 50th African Union Summit in...
Addis Ababa, May 23, 2013 - Vice President Hamid Ansari will visitEthiopia to attend the 50th anniversary celebrations of theOrganisation of African Unity/African Union on May 25, yahoo.com reported...
View ArticleKerry to Visit Ethiopia for Security Talks
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is headed to Ethiopia for security talks with regional officials and to attend a 50th anniversary celebration for the African Union.
View ArticleAU's efforts to tackle problems 'strained'
The AU is celebrating 50 years of existence this year. Set up in 1963 in the Ethiopian capital, the body had 32 initial signatory governments, with 21 more nations joining over the years.
View ArticlePeacekeeping is not enough - PM ...
Wearing twin hats as AU Assembly chair and Ethiopian prime minister, Hailemariam expounds his views on resolution of the conflict in Mali as well as his country's economic plans.
View ArticleZimbabwean veteran nationalists among honorees at AU golden jubilee
The African Union turns 50 on Saturday and several Zimbabwean veteran nationalists, including the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo and the late former Zanu national chairman Herbert Chitepo will be...
View ArticleWorld leaders in Addis for AU Special Summit
Over 70 world leaders arrived in Addis Ababa this week to attend the Special Summit of the African Union held on Saturday May 25, to celebrate its Golden Jubilee.
View ArticleHas the ball been dropped on Iran?
From the looks of things, the ball on Iran has been dropped, or the ball is in the Barack Obama court and Kerry is on the bench.
View ArticleBrazil's first presidential delegate gives Ethiopia four deals
Brazil's first ever presidential visit to Ethiopia on Friday, May 24, saw the two sides sign four cooperation agreements that Ethiopian officials consider signal the entry of the emerging South...
View ArticleJonathan, others in Addis Ababa for AU Summit
President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday arrived in Addis Ababa to attend the 21st Ordinary Session of the AU Heads of State and Government scheduled for May 25 to May 27.
View ArticleAfrican Aesthetic' Exhibition opens
Addis Ababa May 24/2013 An Exhibition of traditional and fine art as well as photographs from Africa and the African Diaspora organized in connection with the 50th anniversary of the establishment of...
View ArticleOAU/AU golden jubilee: a reflection on Ethiopia's role
By Mikias Sebsibe In May 1963, the two opposing groups - Casablanca and Monrovia - were able to bridge their gap and come together to form the Organization of African Unity .
View ArticleKerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
When Haynes Johnson visited Selma, Ala., months after a civil rights crisis there gripped the nation, he wrote in The Washington Evening Star that he'd found "no discernible change in the racial...
View ArticleKerry makes sub-Saharan Africa visit
Making his first official trip to sub-Saharan Africa, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Saturday demanded that Nigeria respect human rights as it cracks down on Islamist extremists and pledged to...
View ArticleAfrican elite have failed us; AU made irrelevant - " author
A prolific writer, Kinna Likimani has descended heavily on the continent's elite whom she accuses of undermining the progress of Africa, and by extension making nonsense of the continental body - the...
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