South Sudan army says advancing on last rebel stronghold
Government soldiers prepare to deploy from the capital, Juba on January 13, 2013 as fighting continues to rage in south Sudan.
View ArticleRenaissance dam right on track: Ethiopia irrigation minister - Monday, 13...
Addis Ababa, 13 January 2014 - Ethiopian minister says on Monday Grand Renaissance Dam faces neither financial nor technical problems.
View ArticleJapan, Ethiopia urge peace in South Sudan
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn look on during a press conference in Addis Ababa on January 13, 2014 The leaders of Japan and Ethiopia on Monday...
View ArticleChurch hopes coffee house will change the lives of Ethiopians
On the walls of the Winter Garden coffee shop featuring peppermint bark latte and gingerbread whoopie pie are black-and-white photographs of an impoverished African city and its people.
View ArticleTrends in the Ethiopian Press
It is a commonplace among western organizations to place all the blames on the government regarding the state of the nation's private press.
View ArticleEritrea: Time to Bring Eritrea in From the Cold
This is not a rejoinder to Hank Cohen's piece - Time to Bring Eritrea in from the Cold - published by African Arguments on 16 December 2013.
View ArticleRock-hewn Churchs in Lalibela
During my visit to Lalibela, a city in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia I took this pictures of sunset around the Church of Saint George one of eleven monolithic churches.
View ArticleEthiopian Airports Enterprise plans new Airport for Awassa - Tuesday, 14...
Addis Ababa, 14 January 2014 - The Ethiopian Airports Enterprise announced that a location for the building of a new airport at Aawasa has been acquired and the design work is under In the last...
View ArticleEthiopia: Nile water dam construction project hurts the Somali people in...
The Tigray People's Liberation Front led-Regime of Addis Ababa has been campaigning a fundraising in and outside of the Country to collect money as much as possible to secure enough resources that can...
View ArticleScores fleeing fighting drown in Nile
Scores of South Sudanese drowned when a packed ferry capsized in the White Nile near the capital of an oil-producing region where government forces and rebels have fought for control, officials said.
View ArticleVirological efficacy and immunological recovery among Ethiopian HIV-1...
Introduction of antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa was a hot debate due to many concerns about adherence, logistics and resistance.
View ArticleGambia President Arrests Two Journalists Over Political Defections Story
A newspaper editor in Gambia says two of its journalists have been arrested after reporting that 19 supporters of President Yahya Jammeh's ruling party had defected to the opposition.
View ArticleGhana to deploy 850 soldiers to South Sudan
President John Dramani Mahama on Tuesday announced that Ghana will contribute 850 troops to the war-torn South Sudan to help restore peace and stability to the North African country.
View ArticleChina condemns Japan leader on visit to Ethiopia
Xie Xiaoyan, China's ambassador to Ethiopia and the country's envoy to the African Union, said Wednesday that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to the Yasakuni Shrine in Tokyo in December was...
View ArticleExcerpts from Abe's speech in Addis AbabaJanuary 16, 2014 The text is ...
I have come to Addis Ababa, home to the African Union, in order to fulfill the pledge I made at TICAD V. In Yokohama, I said, "I want absolutely to set foot on African soil at the earliest time possible."
View ArticleMoT providing training to heads of trade bureaus - Wednesday, 15 January 2014...
As part of the efforts to make the trade system in the country efficient, training is being given to heads of trade bureaus, according to the Ministry of Trade .
View ArticleAssociated Press Cameraman Assumed To Be Al-Jazeera Employee Detained By...
Egyptian journalists at the editorial room of al-Masri al-Youm daily newspaper next to copies of Egypt's most prominent newspapers running black background front pages with Arabic that reads, ?no to...
View ArticleAU confirms Ethiopia will join Somali mission - Thursday, 16 January 2014 10:00
Addis Ababa, 16 January 2014 - Ethiopian troops pictured during a ceremony held in Mogadishu in January 2007.
View ArticleIs this the world's toughest bike race? 12,000 km across Africa by cycle
A group of international cyclists gathered around in the restaurant of Khartoum's old Accropole Hotel and listened attentively to an orientation by the tour's chief coordinator.
View ArticleSouth Sudan rebels demand Uganda end support for president
South Sudan's rebels have demanded that Uganda stop supporting government forces as a condition for signing a ceasefire to end fighting that has riven Africa's youngest nation, a spokesman said on...
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