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Addisu Legesse, deputy prime minister, would no longer hold his second post, that of minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD). Junedin Sado, from Minister of Transport and Communication to a parallel position at the newly established Ministry of Science and Technology. Siraj Fegessa, transferred from Minister of Federal Affairs to the top most position at the Ministry of Defense.
Like most pastoralists in the remote Afar region of northeastern Ethiopia, Ahmed Mohammed made sure his daughter was circumcised seven days after her birth.
The Ethiopian forces in Mogadishu have arrested 3 Somali government officials on Monday; sources close to the presidential palace confirmed.
The Ethiopian forces vacated a military base in Baidoa on Sunday, witness said.
The Addis Abeba City Roads Authority (AACRA) has short listed 15 foreign companies engaged in road construction projects in various parts of the country for the award of the huge Africa Avenue (Bole Road) upgrading project.
Residents of Addis Abeba have had to face great inconveniences, as well as additional costs to the daily trips to their various destinations.
Addis Abeba last week got its second map, three months after the first one was prepared by the Ethiopian Mapping Agency (EMA) in September this year. The first map is currently available on the market and is also the only one to have been prepared in ten years.
America is drifting to the centre, with its politics seeing the emergence of liberal republicans and conservative democrats, reports TAMRAT G. GIORGIS, Fortune Staff Writer, from Chicago. He was one of the over 4,600 journalists accredited to cover the election night party at Grant Park on the night of November 4, 2008.
There were mixed feelings when the President of DBE was sacked. The lack of any meaningful transformation after BPR at the bank and its failure to correct the audit findings by NBE have been cited as possible reasons for this latest dismissal.
Hawiye Clan Elders have welcomed the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces after Ethiopian announced on Friday that they are going to withdraw from Somalia by the end of the years 2008.
The Ethiopian army has poured hundreds of additional troops into southern Somalia, a day after the Ethiopian government formally announced plans to withdraw by December.
The Eritrean Ambassador to the United States, Mr. Girmai Gebremariam, expressed surprise with attempts by the US Ambassador to Eritrea to find excuses for the TPLF regime's official rejection of the Boundary Commission's ruling on border delimitation. Mr. Girmai pointed out that the US Ambassador's attempt in an interview with the VOA to advocate and defend as if the TPLF regime accepted the EBBC ...
The humanitarian situation in the drought-affected north and north-eastern Ethiopia continues to deteriorate as severe drought bites.
Ethiopian army commanders and some Somali officials in the capital Mogadishu have ordered ex-Mogadishu Mayor Mohamed "Dheere" Omar to surrender his weapons and home, informed sources tell Garowe Online.
Ethio-German Urban Governance and Decentralization Program together with the Ethiopian Mapping Agency (EMA) launched on Monday a newly produced comprehensive Addis Ababa city map that shows minibus routs.
Chaired by The Network of Ethiopian Women's Associations (NEWA), the Gender Based Violence Campaign-Ethiopia (GBVC-E) is being observed in Ethiopia during this and the next week as it is celebrated around the world, announced the NEWA campaign committee chairwomen on Monday.
State minister of health said family planning program in the rural setups of the country is still poor.
Like many areas in the Horn of Africa, northern and northeastern Ethiopia are experiencing severe drought caused by the failure of the short (Belg) and long rains (Meher), resulting in low crop yields or even total crop failure in some areas.
Yes! He is a hero, many obliged to say and of course most would repeat it praising him after looking his deeds, full of hope, for the new Ethiopian generation. The reason behind for all to agree with this is his devotion and indeed his ultimate weapon to fight against in shaping generation- literacy for the child, books, thousands of it for the youth.
Italy said it approved 3 million Euros contribution in favor of CIHEAM/ Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari (MAIB), in order to provide assistance to the Ethiopian Government in strengthening rural development.
Building the capacity of Chambers of Commerce at all levels in Africa and empowering them can contribute to building a prosperous Africa, underscored the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce at a two day grand conference with 46 member countries of the African Chambers of Commerce.
After 60 years of presence in the country, Shell Ethiopia has totally moved out of the Ethiopian market as of November 14, 2008, after Libya Oil Holding Ltd (OiLibya) finalised the purchase and sale agreement it entered with the former.
Developing countries are eager to learn from Korea's development strategies and experiences of the last five decades as Koreans are happy to share their experiences with friends including Ethiopia, revealed Korean Ambassador on Saturday.
Ethiopia is poised to become one of the 17 countries in which UNFPA and UNICEF have launched a joint programme for the abandonment of FGM/C.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) jointly launched the Third Report of "Assessing Regional Integration in Africa" (ARIA III), under the theme: "Towards Monetary and Financial Integration in Africa".
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