Supper sport Ethiopian Premier League’s top scorer Umed Ukwurry has signed a three year deal with Egyptian side Al Ittihad Alexandria. The deal, estimated at $500,000, makes Umed one of the highest paid players originating from Ethiopia. He has been in red-hot form for St. George as he helped catapult them to the top of
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Turkish Press ADDIS ABABA – Diplomats from the U.S. and E.U. are shuttling between Ethiopia and Egypt in hopes of persuading the two countries to restart tripartite talks on Addis Ababa’s multibillion-dollar hydroelectric dam project on the Nile River, an Ethiopian official has said. “E.U. and U.S. diplomats told us that they wanted to help
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LA Times Preet Bharara, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, and others at a news conference Monday. (Justin Lane / EPA) By TINA SUSMAN U.S. announces charges against purported users of Blackshades, a software program that can hijack computers U.S. officials say Blackshades, which infected half a million computers, underscores the threat
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Author: Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders has learnt today that the court in Addis Ababa granted the police investigating the case against the 6 bloggers and three journalists, 28 more days for further investigations. The police notably claimed they were unable to access the Facebook and Twitter accounts of the detainees, which were reportedly
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By Matt O’Brien mattobrien@bayareanewsgroup.com Local Ethiopian-Americans attend a mass during the Ethiopian Orthodox Church’s 39th Holy Synod meeting at the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Mekane Selam Medhane Alem Cathedral in Oakland, Calif., on Friday, May 16, 2014. Bishops and priests from the U.S. and abroad gathered in Oakland last week to resolve internal differences within the
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By: APO Press Releases GENEVA, Switzerland, May 20, 2014/African Press Organization (APO)/ — IOM has begun an operation to allow 220 Ethiopian irregular migrants held in six Tanzanian prisons to return home. The project, carried out in close cooperation with the Tanzanian Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is funded by
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Dredgingtoday The start of May saw the commissioning of an Italdraghe SGT 250 dredger in Gorgora on the northern shore of Lake Tana, Ethiopia. The dredger, purchased by the National Ministry of Water and Energy, was assembled in and launched from the town’s port facilities. Following commissioning Italdraghe technicians stayed onsite to provide both theoretical
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Globes online Idan Ofer told allAfrica: We want to turn Ethiopia into Africa’s potash hub. Israel Corporation (TASE: ILCO) controlling shareholder Idan Ofer has promised to make Ethiopia “Africa’s center of potash production,” and invest in the country’s electricity infrastructure, reports allAfrica. Israel Chemicals, controlled by Israel Corp. recently bought a 30% stake in Canada’s
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By Olivier Knox, Yahoo News Amid a deadly backlash and a resurgence of polio in Pakistan, the White House has promised that the CIA will never again use a vaccination campaign as a tool of spycraft. “I wanted to inform you that the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) directed in August 2013 that
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The Economist | LUSAKA BUYING ‘Fair Trade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor, new research suggests. By comparing living standards in Fair Trade-certified producing areas in Ethiopia and Uganda with similar non-Fair Trade regions, four development economists from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London found that Fair Trade agricultural
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