Ethiopia News

Addis Ababa June 19/2013Ethiopia and Hungary here on Tuesday signed Memorandum of Understanding enabling to further strengthen existing cooperation between them.

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The capital of Ethiopia seems to be one vast building site. As the high-rise blocks, broad avenues and roundabout take shape, a new Addis Ababa is springing up.

The Ethiopian Airlines, one of the fastest growing airliners in Africa, on Tuesday launched its new destination to Seoul, South Korea.

Gonder June 18/2013 Three farmers' cooperatives unions in North Gondar Zone, Amhara State secured over three million USD from export of sesame in the current Ethiopian year, zonal cooperatives promotion office said.

The Panama canal is being upgraded at a cost of $5.25 billion to ensure it is capable of handling the ever-increasing size of the world's biggest cargo ships.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Mohamed Kamel Amr and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met in Addis Ababa on Tuesday 18 June 2013.

Ethiopia's green growth strategy is exemplary to other African countries, says the African Power Utility Association .

Homera June 17/2013 Dansha Town in Western Tigray Zone has got access to round-the-clock electric power service, the town administration said.

The construction of the Meiso-Djibouti railway line project that link Ethiopia with Djibouti was launched last month at a cost of 1.4 billion birr.

The Chinese government supports domestic companies getting more actively involved in investment cooperation with Ethiopia in a wide range of sectors from infrastructure to manufacturing, Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday.

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia met in Addis Ababa on Monday in hopes of defusing tensions over a huge dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River.

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Samuel Freeland was jailed last July after he was convicted at Reading Crown Court of raping a drunken teenager after meeting her in a bar The project is being tested locally to see if a whole community can change their travel habits, raise money for local schools and win prizes all at the same time A youth worker discovered how cash spent on goats ... (more)

Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnin has called on Ethiopian diaspora to strengthen their participation on the ongoing development efforts at home.

Addis Ababa/London - Ethiopia may be one of the fastest-growing, non-oil producing economies in Africa in recent years, but corruption in this Horn of Africa nation is a deterrent to foreign investors looking for stable long-term partnerships in developing countries.

CAIRO , June 15, 2013 - "Egypt is the gift of the Nile" said Herodotus, the father of history, more than 2000 years ago when he visited the desert country in which the river is its main vein of life.

Soon the Minister for Foreign Affairs will inaugurate the new diaspora policy. Representatives of the diaspora community are expected in Addis Ababa from all over the world.

Addis Ababa, June 15: The Export-Import Bank of India has approved a $300 million worth of line of credit to Ethiopia, paving the way for construction of a railway line linking this landlocked country in the Horn of Africa to a port city in neighbouring Djibouti.