Rare Blue Diamond found in South Africa’s Cullinan mine

22 January 2014  The “exceptional” 29.6 carat blue diamond is the latest rare stone to be found in the Cullinan mine A rare blue diamond has been discovered in a mine in South Africa. The 29.6-carat stone was recovered by

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Ethiopian Yosef Tulu killed in Dallas

by MARCUS MOORE and SEBASTIAN ROBERTSON GARLAND — Police in Garland say a store clerk found dead Tuesday morning inside a convenience store was shot multiple times. According to investigators, the victim was found by a delivery man inside a

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Ethiopian Yosef Tulu killed in Dallas

by MARCUS MOORE and SEBASTIAN ROBERTSON GARLAND — Police in Garland say a store clerk found dead Tuesday morning inside a convenience store was shot multiple times. According to investigators, the victim was found by a delivery man inside a

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Help out PowerUp Ethiopia: Water for Harar

Jan. 21, 2014  Concordia Humana Founder and CEO Danny Sexton (fourth from left) is teaming up with University of Cincinnati students for the PowerUp Ethiopia Project to build a solar-powered well. / Thanks to Danny Sexton Marika Lee Help out

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Ghana, Libya through to CHAN quarterfinals

AFP | Jan 21, 2014 LOEMFONTEIN: A dubious 76th minute penalty gave Ghana a 1-0 win over Group C rivals Ethiopia in the African Nations Championship on Tuesday, as Ghana and Libya advanced to the knock-out stages.Ethiopian midfielder Salahdin Hussen was judged to have

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A group of young Ethiopians perform ethnic African dance at the global food festival in Riyadh.

RIYADH: RASHID HASSAN Tuesday 21 January 2014 Students from Ethiopian International School kept the audience enthralled with their impressive performance of ethnic African dance at the global food festival at Riyadh golf course. The students got a big round of

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The desperate and hostile nature of Egyptian move against Ethiopia

January 21, 2014 By W.Yilma Egyptian relation with Ethiopia lack coherence and logic. Leave alone for political observers, it is not hard for ordinary person to understand the desperate, demonic and deceptive motives of the Egyptian “politicians” towards Ethiopia when

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Scientists to create disease-resistant Ethiopian enset

Addis Ababa, 21 January 2014 (WIC)- A research project for developing varieties of enset, a traditional Ethiopian crop which resembles the banana plant, resistant to the deadly bacterial wilt disease has been launched.      The project launched last month (16

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Kenyan author comes out as gay

January 21, 2014 Binyavanga Wainaina won the 2002 Caine Prize for African Writing Leading Kenyan author Binyavanga Wainaina has come out to say he is gay, making him one of the most high-profile Africans to do so. He made the

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Egypt may take Nile dam dispute with Ethiopia to UN

Jan 21, 2014  After all attempts to solve the Egyptian-Ethiopian crisis over the Renaissance Dam at the negotiating tableended in failure after a third round of negotiations on Jan. 4, with Egypt withdrawing from the discussions and conferences being held in Khartoum, there is now

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