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The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) benefits Ethiopian garment and textile manufacturers even though the volume is low compared to other African countries, Ethiopian Textile and Garment Manufacturers Association (ETGAMA) disclosed.
Mr. John Kofi Agyekum Kufuor, WFP Ambassador against Hunger and former President of Ghana, said he chose to come to Ethiopia on his first official visit as WFP Ambassador because of encouraging reports and came out of the visit impressed. He also saw not just a system in place for cases of emergency but also the capacity to anticipate emergencies, he said at the WFP premises to journalists ...
Sanitation coverage of Ethiopia has made progressive achievement reaching 54.8% in the current year from11.5% in 2003, the Federal Ministry of Health (MoH) disclosed.
Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change, but have so far been largely overlooked in the debate about how to address problems of rising seas, droughts, melting glaciers and extreme weather, concludes The State of World Population 2009, released by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA).
Ethiopian officials have reportedly crossed the border to neighbouring Somalia to hold secret talks with former administrators of Somalia's southern region of Bakool in the southwestern border village of Yeed, sources reported.
The US and Britain have expressed concern over the alleged politicisation of humanitarian aid in Ethiopia ahead of elections and called for immediate investigation.
International aid agency Oxfam today (22 October 2009) called for a radical shake-up in the way the world deals with food crises in Ethiopia and beyond. The agency rounded on what it called a “knee-jerk reaction” to food crises which is dominated by sending food aid. While the agency recognised that sending food aid does save lives, the dominance of this approach fails to ...
The Islamist officials of Hisbul Islam organization in Hiran region have warned the Ethiopians to carry out projects in parts of the region in central Somalia, official told Shabelle radio on Sunday.
The UK Government announced a four billion birr grant aid to Ethiopia to support the provision of basic services, social protection and humanitarian assistance, Minister of State for International Development, Gareth Thomas, said on Tuesday at the premises of the UK Embassy here.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed claims by Ogaden rebels to have captured seven towns in the oil rich Somali region located in south eastern of Ethiopia.
Oxfam's Agricultural Scaling-Up Program is as appropriate and timely as it is in line with the current trust of the national development strategy, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) disclosed.
PRESIDENT Yoweri Museveni and other African leaders yesterday agreed to ask for compensation from the rich industrialised nations during the climate change talks to be held in Copenhagen at the end of the year.
A familiar story of looming famine is filtering out of East Africa.
The Korea International Cooperation Agency (COICA) plans to increase the quality and quantity of its development assistance programs in Ethiopia.
Media sensitivity in the use of language and images of the disabled is of considerable significance to show the dignity and respect this section of the society deserves. Failure to do that would reinforce common myths and discrimination in the society, the Ethiopian Center for Disabilities Development (ECDD) disclosed at a consultative workshop held at MN International Hotel on media strategy to ...
The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) and Oxfam GB are hosting a National Agriculture learning event from 17-19 November 2009 here in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia is inviting investors to lease three million hectares of agricultural land to increase food productivity and earn foreign exchange.
The officials of the Ogaden Liberation Front ( ONLF) have Thursday said they took over the control of more Ethiopian military bases with fighting that continued in the Somali region under Ethiopian control recently.
'No alternative in the opposition,' they whispered anonymously. What a disgusting phrase to use in justifying support for a ruthless dictatorship.
Ethiopian and Kenyan ministers are working to address cross-border conflicts between pastoralists of Somali cluster, they disclosed in the course of the Cross Border Peace Meeting from 2-4 November, 2009 at the border town of Moyale, some 775 km South of Addis Ababa.
For over a century Ethiopia and the United States have been engaged in meandering diplomatic relations influenced by major official actors, domestic politics, and world conditions. Based on archival and declassified government documents, interviews, and translations of works in Amharic, Professor Getachew Metaferia has provided a balanced, detailed analysis of the diplomatic history of Ethiopia, ...
Progress on the political, social and economic status of women in Africa will be the focus of a week-long series of meetings taking place in Banjul, The Gambia.
Traders in Uganda, Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti will have their turnaround time on roads while transporting their goods from within and outside the countries reduced because of the planned improvement in the region's road infrastructure.
The only spontaneous, ostensibly polite gesture that people who are middle-aged and above can expect without fail in the streets of Addis and elsewhere is the word "father". The English word is actually in use more often than not. For women it is "mother." A word most women find odious. Come to think of it, aren't women exempt from even telling their ages?
A high profile Korean mission led by Choi,Heung -Ryul, Head of Social Development Department of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) HQ, has arrived here in Addis Ababa to pay a week long visit till 8 November 2009.
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