Ethiopia

Ethiopia's council of representatives (transitional parliament) has lifted the voting [...]

GOLD MINING RESUMES

US company Canyon Resources Africa Corporation and Canada's Golden Star Resources Corporation have been awarded contracts to operate gold mines [...]

NEGOTIATIONS IN WASHINGTON

The US Task Force on Ethiopia (ION N° 650), set up by the outgoing chairman of the House Sub-Committee on [...]

Following its resumption of cooperation and assistance with Uganda last [...]

TOWNS ATTACKED BY OLF

Armed units of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF, opposition) invaded the towns of Humruna and Jarte, Horo Gudru Province, for [...]

The Ethiopian government is to put twenty-five state-owned supermarkets, shops [...]

MAJOR FRENCH CONTRACTS

French contractor SOGEA has followed up its success at the beginning of 1994 in winning two contracts financed by the [...]

Talks proceeding with IPC

Negotiations were still underway in early January between the Ethiopian government and the International Petroleum Corp on whether IPC would [...]

OROMOS GET ACT TOGETHER

Representatives of three Ethiopian Oromo movements which oppose the Addis Ababa government agreed, at the close of a meeting in [...]

ROME PANS DEATH SENTENCES

The Italian delegate on the European Union's Africa Working Group has submitted a proposal to his colleagues for a joint [...]

The official news agency ENA announced on January 6 that [...]

AFAR DIPLOMAT DEFECTS

Ethiopia's embassy in Cairo lost its consul, Yussuf Yassin, at the end of December when he defected from his country's [...]

The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, [...]

ASRAT WOLDEYES

The leader of the All Amhara People's Organization, who is [...]

DIPLOMATIC ACTIVITY IN ADDIS

Travelling through Africa at the head of a high level delegation from the US State Department, US Defence Department, and [...]

MOSCOW INTRIGUES THE PARIS CLUB

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, Paris Club officials are intrigued by talks going on over the [...]

The national airlines Eritrean Airlines and Ethiopian Airlines decided last [...]

POWER PLAY FOR NILE

Ethiopia and Uganda are examining the idea of developing their hydro-electric potential, located essentially in the Nile river basin. This [...]

YEWOND WOSSEN KEBEDE AND AMARE AREGAWI

The two senior officials of Tigray People's Liberation Front, the [...]