Ethiopia

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 [...]

SUDAN'S DIPLOMATIC MISSION

In a bid to escape from its international isolation, the Sudanese government is multiplying its diplomatic manoeuvres in the Horn [...]

Swiss oil supplier Addax, has won a contract from the [...]

AGRICULTURAL INPUT AID

The World Bank and the European Economic Community (EEC) have approved an agricultural aid package for Ethiopia. This aid will [...]

Ethiopian President Meles Zenawi said on February 11 that ethnic [...]

TAMIRAT LAYNE

Ethiopia's prime minster, has been appointed by President Meles Zenawi [...]

ELECTRICITY SUPPLY DISRUPTED BY ACCIDENTS

According to Ethiopian Electric Light and Power Authority (EEPLA)'s general manager, Tamene Wolde Yohannes, the electricity supply to Addis Ababa [...]

The Ethiopian government last week signed two trade agreements with [...]