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Profile| Ethiopia’s new President Mulatu Teshome

On October 7, 2013, the joint session of the House of Federations and the House of Representatives elected Ambassador Mulatu…

Friday, October 11, 2013 @ 1:04 am

(By John Daly) On 27 September Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Deputy Prime Minister Dr. Michael Debretsion announced the…

Thursday, October 10, 2013 @ 1:37 am

State Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Abraham Tekeste, said on Wednesday (October 9) that Ethiopia's economy grew 9.7 percent…

Thursday, October 10, 2013 @ 12:30 am

The World Bank’s “Africa Pulse” report, an analysis of the issues shaping Africa’s economic prospects which comes out every two…

Wednesday, October 9, 2013 @ 1:15 am

At least 130 people died and hundreds more are missing after a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank…

Friday, October 4, 2013 @ 1:12 am

In an address to the UN General Assembly on Monday (September 30), Eritrea’s Foreign Minister, Osman Saleh Mohammed, said the…

Friday, October 4, 2013 @ 1:11 am

(Peter Schwartzstein) “Ethiopia is killing us,” taxi driver Ahmed Hossam said, as he picked his way through Cairo’s notoriously traffic-clogged…

Monday, September 30, 2013 @ 12:56 am

(By Muluken Yewondwossen) The Office of the President has finally concluded a deal to rent a 400,000 birr per month…

Monday, September 30, 2013 @ 12:16 am

(Daniel Berhane) At-least seven senior officials of UDJ/Andinet, one of the main opposition parties, were in police custody a few hours ago,…

Friday, September 27, 2013 @ 10:30 pm

In a rare defiance of Egyptian pressure, to which Sudanese scholars acquiesced to for decades, a renowned legal scholar wrote…

Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 9:09 pm