U.S Embassy in Addis Ababa warns Americans

13 April 2014 Security Message for U.S. Citizens: Event and Demonstration Planned for April 12 and April 26  On April 12, a panel discussion described as “Fighting Homosexuality in Ethiopia” is scheduled to take place at the Addis Ababa City

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African Anti-graft Court sought to arrest culprits of illicit capital flight

April 12, 2014 Pan African News Agency (Pan African News Agency Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) – African economists have wound up a two-day meeting in Addis Ababa on the steps required to stop the illicit flow

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Ethiopian panel slams environmentalist NGO’s report on dam project

Daily News Egypt April 12, 2014  By Jake Lippincott On Sunday the Grand Ethiopian Dam Project (GERD) Panel of Experts slammed a 31 March report issued by the International  Rivers Network (IRN), titled “GERD Panel of Experts Report: Big Questions

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Ethiopia, China in $73m airport expansion deal

April 12, 2014  Star Africa The Ethiopian Government is set to obtain $72.5 million from the China Import Export bank to expand the Addis Ababa International Airport, the local media reported on Saturday.The local media said that the Ethiopian Parliament

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Who Audits the Auditors – Scandal At the Heart of the African Peer Review Mechanism

BY RAMATA SORE, 12 APRIL 2014 Think Africa Press It is 5:20am on 30 January, 2014, and most of the residents of Ethiopia’s capital are asleep. On the streets, a few vehicles prowl as night-time revellers – mostly girls in

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Ethiopian Mother who strangled baby sentenced to 25 years to life in prison

Apr 12, 2014 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – An Ethiopian woman who shook and strangled her 7-month-old son, then told police that he fell from a third-story apartment window, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison. Zewoinesh

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Ethiopian Mother who strangled baby sentenced to 25 years to life in prison

Apr 12, 2014 SAN DIEGO (CNS) – An Ethiopian woman who shook and strangled her 7-month-old son, then told police that he fell from a third-story apartment window, was sentenced Friday to 25 years to life in state prison. Zewoinesh

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WFP launches cross-border aid to South Sudanese from Ethiopia

By Tesfa-Alem Tekle Sudan Tribune April 11, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – The United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) has launched a cross-border operation to supply food to tens of thousands of South Sudanese affected by the conflict which began in

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Ethiopia One of the top Countries Which Are Home To 760 Million Of The World’s Poor

April 11, 2014 Nigerian Eye The top five countries, in terms of numbers of poor, are India (with 33 percent of the world’s poor), China (13 percent), Nigeria (7 percent), Bangladesh (6 percent) and the Democratic Republic of Congo (5

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Egyptian ‘suspicions’ behind Ethiopia dam crisis: Sudan FM

By Mohamed Taha Tawakel, Thursday, April 10, 2014 Turkish Press The project has raised alarm bells in Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous country, which fears a reduction of its historical share of Nile water. ADDIS ABABA – Sudanese Foreign Minister

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