X-37B Orbital Vehicle (Reuters / HO) RT- The Air Force’s top-secret space plane landed in California on Friday morning after nearly two years orbiting Earth on a classified mission. The robotic spacecraft’s purpose remains a mystery, though surveillance is a likely candidate. The Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle ‒ an unpiloted aircraft that looks like
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Tahiro2014.org Mohammed Abbajebel Tahiro was born in Ethiopia in 1964. After completing his elementary and secondary education, he enrolled at Addis Ababa University with an academic interest in theoretical physics. Due to political upheaval and social instability, he left the country for a brief sojourn in Nairobi, Kenya before making the long journey to the
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Marthe van der Wolf VOA-Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the country is protected at all times from attacks by the Somali militant group al-Shabab but is asking its citizens to be vigilant. The American Embassy in Addis Ababa issued a terror warning earlier this week. Ethiopia’s government says that despite the terror alert issued
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By Hagar al-Dosoki Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was “keeping an open mind and heart” ahead of a tripartite technical committee meeting in Cairo on Thursday to discuss an Ethiopian mega dam currently being built on the Nile River. Ethiopian Irrigation Minister Alemayehu Tegenu has said that his government was
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AFP The 619 doctors and health workers will be sent from Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda ARUSHA, Tanzania: East African nations are sending over 600 health workers, including 41 doctors to west Africa to combat the spread of Ebola, the regional five-nation bloc said in a statement on Friday. The decision was made after
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Colonialism never left. (Photo by Alfredo Bini) BY Daniel A. Medina@dmedin11 Quartz It’s been called by some to be a new form of colonialism. Others say it isoutright theft. Since 2000, over 37 million hectares of land, mainly in the world’s poorest nations, have been acquired by foreign investors “without the free, prior, and informed consent of communities”
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OpenDemocracy By YORDANOS ABEBE In attempting to minimize the risks attendant to human rights work in an authoritarian setting, Ethiopian NGOs have been hesitant to support young activists who face government persecution. Iain Levine of Human Rights Watch has noted that “an essential element of human rights work is to fulfill the moral imperative of
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Business Traveler From October 26, ANA passengers will be able to book connecting flights on Ethiopian Airlines between Addis Ababa and Bangkok, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Paris, London, Nairobi and Mombasa through ANA. Ethiopian will place its flight code on ANA’s Bangkok and Hong Kong routes. Passengers on both the Star Alliance airlines will continue to
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Reuters By Michael Turner and Helene Durand LONDON,(IFR) – The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has picked BNP Paribas, Deutsche Bank and JP Morgan to arrange a debut US dollar-denominated Eurobond, according to sources. The bond is likely to have a minimum 10 year tenor, according to a source. The banks declined to comment. Ethiopia
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AFP Photo by Berit Roald for Agence France-Presse. Wealthy countries were slow to tackle the Ebola epidemic as it began in Africa, former United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan said in tough criticism of the response to the crisis on Thursday. “I am bitterly disappointed by the response… I am disappointed in the international community
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