Ethiopia News

Addis Ababa, February 11 - Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Hailemariam Desaleg here on Friday held talks with Belgian Defense Minister, Peter de Crem on regional issues.

Addis Ababa, February 11 - Ethiopian Television's Arabsat broadcast that had failed for the past few weeks due to technical problem has resumed transmission.

The Eastern African Fine Coffees Association will hold the 9th edition of the African Fine Coffee Conference and Exhibition in Ethiopia next week.

Young refugees from Sudan's Blue Nile state collect water to wash with at Doro camp in South Sudan.

More than 40,000 people have fled clashes between two northern Kenyan tribes over access to water and pasture, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said Friday.

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi attends a session at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26.

Unbeknownst to the hungover hipsters who line up at College Street diners for weekend brunch, one of the best breakfast joints in the city is an Ethiopian place on Bloor just east of Ossington.

Perched under the shadow of a 100-metre tall marble monolith, a short-sleeved Kwame Nkrumah stands with his right hand raised in triumphant pose, his eyes gazing at the heavens.

OUR continent's leaders gathered last week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to take up the case for greater inter Africa trade.

Addis Ababa, February 10 - Financial resources required to construct the national railway network set under the Growth and Transformation Plan is not much of a concern, says director of Ethiopian Railways Corporation .

Newswise - BOSTON - The Feinstein International Center at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University will lead on-the-ground research aimed at breaking the centuries-old cycle of child undernutrition in Ethiopia by strengthening existing nutrition interventions.

Ethiopia, one of Africa's poorest countries, is among the few on track to achieve the goal of universal primary education by 2015.A Our correspondent in Addis Ababa, reports on how, according to analysts, an otherwise repressive government is winning praise for its campaign to bring learning to the people.

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South Sudan has signed an agreement to build an oil pipeline to the port of Djibouti via neighbouring Ethiopia, officials said Thursday, after Juba shut down its only export route via former foe Sudan.

Uganda's government has distanced itself from a controversial anti-gay bill calling for severe penalties on homosexuality after it was reintroduced in parliament this week.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held discussions on Tuesday with a delegation from Somaliland led by its President Ahmed Mohammed Mahmud.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi says Ethiopia expects to achieve above 11 per cent economic growth this year, which would place it among the top, if not the highest, in the world.

Like many countries in Africa, Ethiopia has sought India's help in setting up an institute to train rookie diplomats.

Miss Ethiopia Melkam Michael Endale will now represent Ethiopia in Miss World 2012, at the 62nd edition of the Miss World in Ordos, Inner Mongolia on 18th August, 2012.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Wednesday Ethiopia could pardon politicians and journalists arrested under a 2009 anti-terrorism law, but dismissed opposition criticism he was using the law to clamp down on dissent.