Ethiopia

HASSAN ABDALLAH WATTA

A former civil servant who worked in the Djiboutian agriculture [...]

WORK STEPS UP ON HT NETWORK

The Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority (EELPA) has announced the resumption and progress of work on building high tension [...]

Ethiopian radio last week announced an agreement with Asmara that [...]

ECCLESIASTIC RIVALRY

Ongoing disputes between the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and the Egyptian Copt Church have forced the Ethiopian Orthodox Church to reconsider [...]

Radio Addis Ababa reported this week that the provisional Eritrean [...]

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A HUMANITARIAN YALTA ?

Albeit with its intentions veiled, the recent conference on humanitarian questions, held this month in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, was the first step in a kind of episodic Yalta agreement, aimed at restructuring the whole region, under the watchful [.

MORE CREDIT, MORE PROJECTS

The African Development Bank (ADB) and the Ethiopian government signed financing agreements at the end of March worth about 300 [...]

DEBT AND DEVALUATION

Ethiopia's external debt amounted to nearly 7.5 billion birr at the end of last year. Given the drop in state [...]

PRIORITY FOR NETWORK

The renovation of Ethiopia's electricity distribution network figures high among the priorities in the country's Economic Recovery and Reconstruction Programme [...]

FULL AID FOR ECONOMIC RECOVERY PLAN

The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, has granted a 150-million dollar credit to Ethiopia and has reallocated [...]

AHMED DINI

Diplomatic spokesman for the Front pour la Restauration de l'Unité [...]

Radio Addis Ababa reports that the OLF and the EPRDF [...]

RETURN OF THE EMPEROR II

In an interview with Spanish monarchist daily newspaper, ABC, the son of the assassinated Ethiopian Emperor, Haile Selassie, the self-proclaimed [...]

GAS PROJECT IN OGADEN

Ethiopia is anxious to immediately begin developing the Calub gas field that forms part of a permit in the Ogaden [...]

OGADEN GAS PROJECT

General manager of Ethiopian Oil and Gas Exploration and Development Organisation, Jihad Abakoyas has called on private investors to buy [...]

NATIONAL AIRLINE TO GET AID PACKAGE

According to a statement made in the Ethiopian Council of Representatives (parliament), the African Development Bank (ADB) has granted nearly [...]

POST-CIVIL WAR COMBATS

Radio Addis Ababa broadcasting from Ethiopia's capital, reported on March 31 that an "illegal" demonstration mounted by the Oromo Liberation [...]

INSTABILITY CAUSES REGIONAL ELECTIONS TO BE POSTPONED

Ethiopia's regional elections have been postponed until early June. This announcement came at the end of the 37th regular session [...]

PEACE PACT BETWEEN OLF & EPRDF

After a number of delicate manoeuvres and at the end of a two-day meeting, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front [...]