Ethiopia’s Bogaletch Gebre wins King Baudouin Prize Source: BBC News Ethiopian activist Bogaletch Gebre has won an international prize for her campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). Ms Gebre was awarded the King Baudouin Prize in Belgium for confronting…
Source: AP ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian authorities have carried out another wave of arrests that brings the number of people detained on suspicions of corruption to more than 50. Berhanu Assefa of the country’s federal ethics and anti-corruption commission…
China’s Huajian Shoe manufacturing giant currently employs more than 1500 Ethiopian in its factory outside Ethiopia’s capital.
Change looms for Ethiopia’s ancient salt trade By Siegfried Modola HAMAD-ILE, Ethiopia (Reuters) – Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia…
ADDIS ABABA, May 17 (BERNAMA-NNN-ERTA) — Indian-owened companies operating in Ethiopia have helped to make flowers the country’s third-largest export earner and Ethiopia the world’s fourth largest exporter of fresh cut flowers, said an online edition of an English-language daily…
Addis Ababa, May 16, 2013 (WIC) – Kuwait Fund has promised to back ongoing road construction and potable water provision projects in Ethiopia. It has also pledged to support the expansion project at the Addis Ababa Bole International Airport. The…
Addis Ababa, May 14 (IANS) The Ethiopian branch of a private Indian college has been barred from registering new students for four distance learning programmes until it renews its accreditation with its partner institution in India. The existing students can,…
As part of their efforts to expand globally and to promote Dubai as an international business hub, H.E. Hamad Buamim, Director General, Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry, inaugurated Dubai Chamber’s new representative office in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa…
The Ethiopian federal Policeman who shot and killed 12 Innocent People including children and mothers found dead.
May 14, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA) – An Ethiopian federal policeman shot dead 14 innocent people in the northern west city of Bahirdar, a regional police source told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday. Amhara regional police commissioner, Mulgeta Worku, said the shooter…
