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NEW YORK — Evidence collected by the United States against an East African charged with providing support to a Somali terrorist organization linked to al-Qaida includes lengthy statements he made to authorities, a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday. Read the rest of this entry »
Source: Guardian
Bob Geldof has launched a furious attack on the BBC World Service over its claim that 95% of the $100m aid raised to fight famine in northern Ethiopia was diverted by rebels and spent on weapons. Read the rest of this entry »
NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi’s Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to be heard over the Amharic-language patter of denizens from Addis Ababa, Lalibela, Mekele and Gonder. There’s a good reason for the resemblance: Many of Habesha’s clients are in exile for speaking out against the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Read the rest of this entry »
BEIRUT: Further legal proceedings commenced on Monday against the US aeronautical giant Boeing, seeking compensation for relatives of victims from the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash. Read the rest of this entry »
Meles Zenawi, who was one of the leaders of the rebel group the Tigrean People’s Liberation Front, is now the country’s Prime Minister. In an interview with The Independent he said that the BBC had fallen for lies put out by his political opponents on the eve of a general election in Addis Ababa next month. Read the rest of this entry »
ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopian distance star Kenenisa Bekele said Monday he was uncertain of competing in the World Cross Championships in Poland later this month owing to a calf injury. Read the rest of this entry »
Yorktown Heights, NY – 03 Mar 2010: IBM (NYSE: IBM) scientists today unveiled a significant step towards replacing electrical signals that communicate via copper wires between computer chips with tiny silicon circuits that communicate using pulses of light. As reported in the recent issue of the scientific journal Nature, this is an important advancement in changing the way computer chips talk to each other. Read the rest of this entry »
The stabbing death of an opposition candidate in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is raising new calls for an inquiry and an easing of 2009 repressive legislation that critics say is restraining political activity in the weeks leading up to this year’s 23 May general elections. Read the rest of this entry »
By Tesfa Alem Tekle
March 5, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) — The Ethiopian government has launched a second phase five year long safety net program as part of the country’s ongoing efforts to curb national food insecurity. State ministry of agriculture and rural development said. Read the rest of this entry »
March 5, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) – The Ethiopian embassy in Sudan, Khartoum on Thursday inaugurated a new complex building it constructed at a cost of 6.3 million Dollars. Read the rest of this entry »