Addis Ababa Ethopia

Ethiopia / Drought victims increase as situation worsens   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, August 20, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) is launching a revised emergency appeal for 8.1 million Swiss francs (US$ 7.9...  

By Tesfa-alem tekle August 20, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — The state owned commercial bank of Ethiopia(CBE) is considering of opening branch offices in neighboring ...  

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Ethiopia has licensed 1,773 local and foreign investors over the past fiscal year who intend to put around US$9.4 billion in the production, manufacture and service sectors, according to the Ethiopian Investment Agency (EIA ...  

Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author's alone. ADDIS ABABA, 20 August 2008 ( IRIN ) - Bellissima, on bustling Gabon Street in the Ethiopian ...  

Addis Ababa, August 19 - Ethiopia and South Africa have been working jointly to ensure peace and security of the continent, South Africa Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the Africa Union & ...  

Population explosion and a misguided land policy - two reasons why Addis Ababa is the architect of its own misery Rosemary Righter It was at a railway crossing near Diri Dawa, the provincial capital in the ...  

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia plans to increase export earnings by a billion dollars to $2.5 billion in 2008/09 compared with the previous year, the trade ministry said on Tuesday. "Ethiopia plans to raise 68 percent of the planned $2.5 billion ...  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Oxfam, the international aid organization, says Ethiopia is facing what it calls a "toxic cocktail" of drought, high food prices, delivery problems and plagues.  

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Improved sanitation Ethiopia could save lives of millions of children and raise the status of local women, only if its policymakers and the general public collectively took up the challenge to bring about change, a UNICEF ...  

Somali president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed and prime minister Nor Hassan Hussein on Friday arrived in Addis Ababa for talks with the African Union, whose plans to pass judgment between the two men after they came to blows for the dismissal of Mogadishu mayor Mohamed Dhere by the PM officials said.  

Djibouti has dropped plans to raise port tariffs that would have cost land-locked Ethiopia an extra $22-million a year, the government in Addis Ababa said on Monday. The Red Sea state has been Ethiopia's main gateway for imports and exports since it ...  

August 18, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — The Ethiopian government denied today reports about the killing of Somali civilians saying these allegation are fabricated by the Somali opposition. Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses in the town of ...  

Ethiopia / Eritrea / Press conference by force commanders of United Nations missions In Lebanon, Ethiopia/Eritrea   ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, August 15, 2008/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had been not only successful, but vital to ensuring...  

By Tesfa-alem Tekle August 17, 2008 (ADDIS ABABA) — President Abdullahi Yusuf, his estranged Prime Minister Nur Hassan Hussein and house speaker late on ...  

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Aug 16 (Garowe Online) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi met privately with visiting interim Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf ...