A train accident occurred between Ethiopia and Djibouti, on Sunday, sent several people with non life-threatening injuries, according survivors.

Ethiopia's parliament should reject a draft law that would criminalize human rights activity and seriously undermine civil society groups, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch called on donor governments to speak out publicly against the bill, which is expected to be introduced in parliament this month.

Ethiopian Airlines has been awarded "Corporate Achievement Award' for its excellence in the airline industry through promotion of airline infrastructure and capacity development.

The International Institute of Rural Reconstruction (IIRR) has appointed Dr Isaac Bakalo IIRR President effective January 1, 2009, the institute said in a statement.

Yohannes Gebregeorgis, an Ethiopian who established Ethiopia Reads, bringing free public libraries and literacy programs to thousands of Ethiopian children has been announced as one of CNN's top ten heroes of the year 2008.

At a two-day ILO (International Labour Organization) Special Meeting held under the theme "An African Perspective to the ILO Declaration on Social Justice for a Fair Globalization", governments, employers, and workers from ILO member states solicited for a new strategy to sustain open economies and open societies base-lining full and productive employment, sustainable enterprises and social ...

A National Survey on Blindness, Low Vision and Trachoma results, revealed that the national prevalence of blindness is 1.6% and low vision is 3.7%, which is very high according to World Health Organization (WHO) standards.

UK's Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, MP, will visit Ethiopia this week, UK's Department for International Development (DfID) announced.

An explosion occurred near Mogadishu has struck an Ethiopian troops army vehicles at Arbiska area outside Somali capital on Sunday morning eyewitnesses said.

The United Nations' humanitarian arm has warned that food insecurity is worsening in Ethiopia, with over six million people now in need of emergency aid to stay alive.

The number of Ethiopians needing emergency assistance has leapt by 40 percent from 4.6 million to 6.4 million people since June, Oxfam said citing latest official figures from the United Nations and the Ethiopian government.

Ethiopian forces deployed in parts of Somalia will soon be dispatched to the southern port of Kismayo, some 500km south of the capital Mogadishu, reliable sources tell Garowe Online.

Child Delegates who attended the 4th Regional Inter-Agency Task Team (RIATT) held in Tanzania 29 September to 2nd October, 2008, on Wednesday called on fellow children to take part in the continued efforts to universal access for children.

The Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Jean Ping, on Tuesday received in audience the Members of the Bureau of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, led by the Chairman and founder of the Foundation, Dr. Mo Ibrahim.

Ethiopia's schools have opened for the new academic year, but severe food insecurity in some regions has kept thousands of children out of class.

New website containing a range of assorted web pages of agricultural and natural development organizations was launched with the aim of enabling all members and the general public to connect and share best practices and experiences, announced Sustainable Land Use Forum (SLUF) on Tuesday.

UK provides the fourth round education partnership opportunity for governmental and private higher educating institutions in Ethiopia that aim to build their capacity through research, training in partnership with well established Universities all over the world, said a business director of UK-Africa Higher Education Partnership yesterday.

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) on Tuesday donated vehicles and motorcycles valued at over 1.2 million Birr, to the Somali Regional Government to help enhance the region's food aid management and capacity building activities.

Ethiopia's overall score in an Index of African Governance declined to 50.9 out of 100 in between 2005 and 2006, as the country fell one place to rank 31 out of sub-Saharan Africa's 48 countries, the latest Index revealed on Monday.

President Girma Woldegiorgis has opened the Parliament with an address that has identified the ensuring of good governance and sustainable peace as being key aims among the government's priorities for the country over the course of the year ahead.

Ethiopia's agriculture sector has been waiting for the approval by the World Bank (WB) of a transfer of 250 million dollars from other projects for the procurement of 550,000 metric tonnes of fertilizer for the 20008/09 fiscal year.

At a fashion trade show in New York this September, top international retailers, including Barneys New York, ordered more than 500 products from the Ethiopian leather goods and textiles consortium.

University of Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) partnered with Zemen Development and Management Institute (ZDMI) in Addis Ababa is to launch associate partnership which is said to bring a major capacity building qualification Ethiopia.

A group of Kenyans who were recently flown back into the country after being held in Ethiopia for several months as terrorist suspects now want to sue the state for kidnapping.

People suspected to be intelligence agents but posing as journalists were the first to interview eight Kenyans released from Ethiopia shortly after they landed at Voi.