Ethiopia

LOAN FOR ENERGY II PROJECT

A $100 million loan from the International Development Association for [...]

A WINTER OF DISCONTENT

The argument raging between the Ethiopian government and the parastatal Caisse Française de Développement over use of the FF.55-million CFD [...]

YEMANI ABDI

Ethiopia's deputy ambassador in Somalia, Yemani Abdi, was kidnapped in [...]

Omar Ali Mirrah, the son of sultan Ali Mirrah (an [...]

TRIAL OF MUSLIMS

A group of thirty-five individuals out of sixty-five Muslims (including several of the community's leaders) who were arrested after riots [...]

DAWE IBRAHIM

The chairman of Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions has been [...]

TALKS UP THE CREEK

Five representatives of the Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD), the opposition movement headed by Beyene Petros, [...]

France is expected to announce (on April 4) its policy [...]

SPECIAL IGADD SUMMIT

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter from diplomatic sources in Nairobi, the Kenyan government, spurred on by [...]

GOVERNMENT IN TALKS WITH CAFPD

Ethiopia's Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) nominated five members on March 15 to negotiate with [...]

MELES ZENAWI

Ethiopia's head of state Meles Zenawi has officially confirmed that [...]

The chamber of commerce in Addis Ababa is to organize [...]

Armed conflict between elements of the Oromo Liberation Front and [...]

A conference on computer-based information services (Internet, email, etc) in [...]

WELILE AUGUSTINE NHLAPO

The Republic of South Africa's new ambassador to Ethiopia and permanent representative to the Organization of African Unity, who took [...]

A statement issued by the United Oromo People's Liberation Front [...]

ANTI-US TREND

Two grenades were thrown at the downtown premises of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Addis Ababa [...]

MATTEO ZUPPI

A delegation of the Roman Catholic community Sant'Egidio headed by [...]

According to the Arab publication Asharq al-Awsat of March first, [...]