Ethiopia

AN ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

According to the "Trends in Developing Economies 1992" handbook produced by the World Bank, the Comoros Islands "slackened off" at [...]

The Coalition of Ethiopian Democratic Forces (COEDF), a group of [...]

TELECOMMUNICATIONS PROJECT

The African Development Bank (ADB) group is expected to approve two loans that will finance the Ethiopian government's telecommunications extension [...]

According to information obtained by The Indian Ocean Newsletter, the [...]

ISSA SHEIKH OMAR

The leader of the Ethiopian Somali Democratic Movement (ESDM) has [...]

LOAN OF $37 M TO BUY LOCKHEED PLANE

The Ethiopian Council of Representatives (the parliament) has approved a financial protocol with United States Lockheed Corporation, for a loan [...]

KHAT TRADE UNDER CONTROL

The respective governments of Ethiopia and Djibouti have signed a bilateral agreement on khat trading. The text of the agreement, [...]

HOTELS' MIXED FORTUNES

Hotel Ghion and Hotel Wabe Shebelle in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa showed a consolidated turnover of 27 million birr [...]

ACQUISITION OF TWO CARGO SHIPS

Ethiopian Shipping Corporation (ESC) has decided to acquire two new and modern cargo ships to transport containers. This investment is [...]

RESHUFFLE REPLACES OLF MINISTERS

According to Ethiopian radio, the provisional parliament, the council of representatives, approved on August 29, a ministerial reshuffle. Six new [...]

MAJOR CIVIL AVIATION PROJECT

The general manager of the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA), Bekele Serbessa recently revealed the outline of a two billion [...]

MEDHIN PARTY COMES TO THE SURFACE

The Ethiopian Medhin Democratic Party, founded discreetly in Washington D.C. in March by Goshu Wolde, the former Ethiopian foreign minister [...]

The vice-president of the National Election Committee, Dawit Yohannes announced [...]

NORTH KOREA SIGNS PROTOCOL

At the end of the sixth session of the joint Ethiopian-North Korean cooperation commission, held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis [...]

OPPONENT KILLED IN NAIROBI

Mbatsion Jattani Ali, a former regional administrator in Southern Sidamo under the Ethiopian regime led by the Derg, was assassinated [...]

MELES ZENAWI

The Ethiopian caretaker president Meles Zenawi met with the North [...]

DEMINEX INTERESTED

Ethiopia figures among the countries that Deminex is currently looking [...]

PAULOS GEBRE-YOHANNES

Paulos Gebre-Yohannes has replaced Patriarch Mekerios a head of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church in Addis Ababa. He was selected from [...]

Ten groups represented in the Ethiopian parliament and forming an [...]