Ethiopia

FAMINE AND RED TAPE

Ethiopian prime minister Tamirat Layne last week criticized bureaucratic red tape, saying that it was hobbling the proper distribution of [...]

According to independent Amharic language press media in Addis Ababa, [...]

THIRTEEN BLOCKS OFFERED IN OGADEN

A tender is currently underway for the awarding of production [...]

ELECTIONS - EXCEPT REGIONS 5 AND 6

Virtually on the eve of the constituent elections planned for June 5, the Ethiopian government re-scheduled the ballot to July [...]

INDUSTRIAL STUDIES BY REGION

The African Development Fund (ADF, part of the African Development Bank group) is expected to adopt at end-July the terms [...]

According to a recent report by the United States embassy [...]

HAILE MERKORIOS

Eritrea's ambassador in Ethiopia Haile Merkorios is believed to have [...]

KUMELACHEW DEGENE

Kefagn Patriotic Front (KPF, see also ION N° 571), an armed group which opposes the government Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic [...]

FAMINE AS A POLITICAL CARD

The Council of Alternative Forces for Peace and Democracy (CAFPD, opposition) headed by Beyene Petros (ION N° 620) has constituted [...]

TOEING THE LINE IN REGION FIVE

After having favoured the nomination of a new executive power in parliament for the Ethiopian-Somali region, which then decided to [...]

The Ethiopian Teachers Association has proposed the establishment of a [...]

REAL ESTATE PROBLEMS IN ADDIS ABABA

The promulgation of the Ethiopian government's new real estate law in Addis Ababa on April 27 has seen house owners [...]

SHARE ISSUE FOR CALUB

The government has set aside a third of shares in the Calub Energy Development company for private Ethiopian investors, issuing [...]

FIRMS PRE-QUALIFIED FOR CHEMOGA-YEDA

A consortium made up of Electricité de France and Sogreah [...]

HUMANITARIAN AID GETS EAGLE EYE

A recent report by the United States' General Accounting Office (GAO) on the administration's contribution to the United Nations' World [...]

TEKEDA ALEMU

Ethiopia's deputy foreign minister was due to commence a world [...]

SEYE ABRAHA

Ethiopia's defence minister Seye Abraha announced in Addis Ababa on April 29 that Ethiopian army units had defeated the fundamentalist [...]

GEBRAY BERHANE

Secretary general (Ethiopian but of Eritrean origins) of the ACP group (which is linked to Europe through the Lome Convention), [...]

According to an eyewitness quoted by the Amharic-language newspapers Tazabi [...]