Ajkikhabar Addis Ababa: In what is being seen as a recognition of the heavy traffic generated on its routes to the Indian subcontinent, the flagship carrier of the East African nation ofEthiopia has named its newestBoeing 787 Dreamliner after India’s most famous monument. The Ethiopian Airlines (ET) has named its eighth 787 Dreamliner after the Taj Mahal, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan’s monument
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By Beyene, B.M.* In 2011, the Ethiopian government announced its plan to construct the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile. Acknowledging the difficulty to get funding from foreign sources (mainly due to Egypt’s campaign against any project on the Nile in the upstream countries), the government made it clear from the onset
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Ahram Online Representatives from Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan will meet in Khartoum in mid-August to discuss Ethiopia’s ongoing Nile dam project, a source in Egypt’s irrigation ministry told Al-Ahram’s Arabic news website. The focus of the meeting will be to discuss critical points from a report issued by the tripartite committee last year on the
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AFP Fighters loyal to Machar strike Nasir, their former headquarters, located 500 kilometres north of Juba and close to Ethiopia. South Sudanese rebels launched an offensive to retake a key town near the border with Ethiopia on Sunday in what the United Nations said was a clear violation of a truce agreement. “This attack represents
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By JENNY VAUGHAN, AFP ZIWAY – Beyond the donkeys on a potholed road in southern Ethiopia is an unexpected sight—vineyards bursting with merlot, syrah and chardonnay grapes ripening in the African sun. The scene is more reminiscent of France’s Beaujolais region than this corner of the Horn of the Africa, which for many still conjures
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Dawit Temesgen ዶር መረራ ባንድ ወቅት«የተራበ ሕዝብ መሪዎቹን ይበላል» ብለው ነበር። የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝብ ተርቦ ስለማያውቅ ነው ወይ መሪዎቹን የማይበላው? ብዬ አንዱን ብጠይቀው፤ «አይደለም።የኢትዮጵያ ሕዝብ፣ ሙስሊሙም ክርስቲያኑም አሳማ ስለማይበላ ነው።» አለኝ።
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BBC The bus had been travelling from Mombasa to Lamu when it was attacked Gunmen have killed seven people, including four police officers, after attacking a passenger bus in Kenya’s coastal county of Lamu. The gunmen opened fire on the bus near the town of Witu, some 50 km (31 miles) from the resort island
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The Washington Post By Katie Park, Kevin Schaul and Gene Thorp After Flight 17 was shot down in eastern Ukraine on July 17, the Federal Aviation Administration expanded an existing regulation that prohibited certain flights from operating in the region. The FAA regularly issues airspace restrictions and prohibitions for U.S. aircraft traveling through potentially hostile
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World Bulletin / News Desk Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on Friday that his country was determined to share Nile River water with all riparian states. “Ethiopia’s stand with regard to Nile water is clear,” Desalegn told a press conference for foreign correspondents at his office in Addis Ababa. “Although Ethiopia is the source
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World Bulletin / News Desk Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn said on Friday that his country was determined to share Nile River water with all riparian states. “Ethiopia’s stand with regard to Nile water is clear,” Desalegn told a press conference for foreign correspondents at his office in Addis Ababa. “Although Ethiopia is the source
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