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Ahead of the completion of this year's parliament's regular session for recess, a new draft law enabling to prevent and suppress illegal act of money laundering presented for discussion among Members of Parliaments on Tuesday.
The African Development Bank (AfDB) is making preparations to start funding the Gibe III dam, a mega project on River Omo whose completion is expected to alleviate Kenya's perennial electricity crisis.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) said despite the government's continued efforts, the performance of the industrial sector remains low compared to the other sectors.
A new UN special envoy and head of the UN Support Bureau for Peace in the Central African Republic (BONUCA), Sahle-Work Zewde from Ethiopia, has arrived in Bangui, AFP reported from Bangui citing a UN source on Wednesday.
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) disclosed that it was working on mobile phone upgrading project as of March 2009 in a bid to centralize the mobile network service that was formerly rendered separately by different companies and improve the overall quality of the service in the capital.
More Ethiopian troops with armed vehicles have reached near Beledweyn town in central Somalia as Ethiopia said that it does not plan to send troops into Somalia, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The Islamic organization of Hisbul Islam in Gedo region has called for the government officials in Dolow town in Ethiopia to return back to the region, officials told Shabelle radio on Thursday.
The deputy leader of the Islamist coalition ruling Kismayu, Sheikh Abdulgani Mohamed Yusuf, has declared war on Somalia's neighbours.
Ethiopia's draft counterterrorism law could punish political speech and peaceful protest as terrorist acts and encourage unfair trials if enacted, Human Rights Watch said today. The government and members of parliament should amend the draft law, which may otherwise be imminently passed as-is by parliament, to meet international human rights standards, Human Rights Watch said.
This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what extent the proposed law on its face conforms to international human rights standards. The draft law has been submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers and may be passed into law before the end of the current legislative session in July 2009.
The Islamic administration in the port town of Kismayu 500 kilometers south of the Somali capital Mogadishu has said that they will attack Ethiopia and Kenya, official said on Tuesday.
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is a tough hammer-and-tongs kind of leader, so it must have come as a surprise to many when he hinted that he wanted to step down.
Amid continued uncertainty about the prospect of a global economic meltdown a report authored by two of Africa's key economic institutions offered mixed projections on the continent's growth in the near future.
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi appeared to be in an upbeat mood on late Wednesday afternoon, June 24, 2009, when speaking to the international media and journalists from the English press. He was witty in his remarks and directly answered some of the personal questions.
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The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has awarded the project for the development of software to introduce the Short Message System (SMS) and an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) to Apposite LLC, a local branch of a US based IT company, EXC officials disclosed.
The Tendaho Sugar Factory Project Office made an advance payment of 16.6 million dollars to Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Private Limited (OIA) to commence the construction of the factory as disclosed by officials at the project office.
According to reliable news reports, Ethiopia's political strongman of some three decades, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has indicated that he is to relinquish power and step down voluntarily. If that comes to pass it will be a truly epoch-making event.
The late start of Ethiopia's wet season and the unreliability of the rains could affect crop production this year and increase the number of those in need of aid, officials said.
This paper analyses Ethiopia's draft Anti-Terrorism Proclamation (the draft Proclamation) and assesses to what extent the proposed law on its face conforms to international human rights standards. The draft law has been submitted to Parliament by the Council of Ministers and may be passed into law before the end of the current legislative session in July 2009.
Ethiopia has said it will not send troops to Somalia because the Mogadishu administration was not in danger of being deposed by Islamic militants.
Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi wants the rich nations to compensate Africa and help the continent in the climate change adaptation projects.
Locust swarms have migrated from northwestern Somalia and spread to seven regions of Ethiopia, but have so far caused minimal damage to crops, an official has said.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi downplayed the threat posed by insurgents against Somalia government, saying that he believed President Sheikh Sharif's government would not be overthrown easily. Prime Minister Meles said at a press conference last night in Addis Ababa that he has no plans of sending troops to neighbouring Somalia despite the escalating violence. However, he said Ethiopia is ...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi reaffirmed his readiness to leave his office, saying he wants to see a new generation of leadership in the post.
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