News - Ethiopia
Monday, August 10th, 2009
By Groum Abate, Capital
Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem (L) - Chairman of Dubai World
Dubai World, the global investment conglomerate, on Wednesday announced that it has suspended several of its planned projects including the multi-million dollar hotel projects in Addis Ababa citing the global financial crunch.
"Dubai World has put on hold a ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
NAIROBI, Kenya — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told a U.S.-Africa trade meeting on Wednesday that business and trade in Africa cannot grow without governments improving democracy.
Clinton is in Kenya on the first leg of a seven-nation tour of Africa. The delegates in Kenya are reviewing the impact ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Ethiopia has obtained $138 million from the export of cut flowers during the past 11 months, the Ethiopian Flower and Horticultural Products Association (EFHPA) said here on Tuesday.
The EFHPA said that the money was obtained from the export of two billion cut flowers.
Flower is becoming Ethiopia’s top income generating product ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Ethiopia has launched a breastfeeding campaign aimed at saving newborn babies.
This is the first time that the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, UNICEF, WHO and other partners are joining over 120 countries worldwide to mark World Breastfeeding Week which will be held from 1- 7 August 2009.
The global theme this year ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Kirubel Tadesse
Capital - The group of 21 members of the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party, which is challenging the party’s executive to decide the party’s election line up, says its stand won’t divide the party.
In a statement issued early this week, the group, which includes veteran opposition mastermind ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Monday, August 3rd, 2009
Addis Journal - The Executive Director of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association (EWLA), Mahdere Paulos has reportedly gone into hiding.
According to Ethio-Chanel, a pro-government newspaper, Mahdere is currently in Kenya and might have fled the country after the government accused her organization of providing ‘false information’ to American State Department, ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Daily Nation - Ethiopia has announced final squad for the World Championships in Athletics with reigning world champions Kenenisa Bekele, Tirunesh Dibaba, Meseret Defar and rising star Meselech Melkamu all expected to double up.
The quartet has been entered in both the 5,000 metres and 10,000m for the Berlin contest next ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Monday, July 27th, 2009
________________________________
MPs - "This last minute change to the bill was intentionally done so that all the parties, with the intimidation and severe harassment they may suffer, are forced to participate in elections just to keep the ruling party company"
________________________________
By Kirubel Tadesse, Capital
A regulation to bring in public funding for political ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Monday, July 27th, 2009
By Abebe Gellaw
In response to Ethiopia and Zenawi’s gangster capitalism, an article I published a few weeks back that tried to highlight the biggest and most flagrant corruption scheme in Ethiopia, the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray [EFFORT], I received numerous comments via email. Though the majority of ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
Friday, July 24th, 2009
Catholic Information Service for Africa
Vatican — Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Fr. Theodorus van Ruijven C.M., apostolic prefect of Jimma-Bonga, Ethiopia, and apostolic administrator of Nekemte, Ethiopia, as apostolic vicar of Nekemte.
The Vicariate of Nekemte has 6.5 million people of whom 45,000 are Catholics, served by 32 priests. The ...
Posted in Ethiopia | No Comments »
