July 14

• Ethiopia: City Suspend Habitat Auction At Eleven Hour

  One of the newly built small houses that serve food and local beer by those relocated in the plot is located inside the compound of Habitat New Flower Homes. Read more »

• Ethiopia: Addis Abeba Craves Good Governance - a Job for Diriba Kuma

  The ruling EPRDFites seem to have started to establish a solid political base in Addis Abeba - the economic nerve centre of Ethiopia and the political capital of Africa. Here they... Read more »

July 07

• Ethiopia: Where Does the Right to Privacy End? [opinion]

  Bethlem Abera, a.k.a Betty, the Ethiopian who took part in the eighth season of Big Brother Africa (BBA) has remained notorious following the revelation of her nude sex scenes.... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Privatising Aid Enhances Effectiveness [opinion]

  Much has changed about official development assistance (ODA) over the last 50 years. Since it originated during the Cold War, when members of the Organisation for Economic... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopia Improves Food Security

  Although average food security remained consistent last year, Sub-Saharan African countries, including Ethiopia, showed the biggest gain climbing by around one point in the annual... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopian Potash Receives Approval to Acquire G&B African Resources

  Ethiopian Potash Corporation (EPC) has received final approval from the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV), a stock exchange inCanada, towards the company's plan to acquire G & B... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Out With the Old

  In the area around Anwar Mosque in Merkato, old buildings are being torn down as part of the reconstruction of Addis Abeba. Public opinion has been divided as to the speed and... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Heavy Price to Pay

  Asefa Kidane carries his load of woven baskets and traditional stools from Merkato to Hiyahulet Mazoria everyday on foot, bypassing buildings under construction and picking his way... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Prosecutor, Policeman Caught Red-Handed While Receiving Bribe

  A prosecutor with the Ministry of Justice and an Police Investigator of the Police Department of the Nifas Silk Lafto District were caught red-handed while receiving 10,000 Br in... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Ethiopian Receives B777-200lr Aircraft

  Ethiopian Airlines received its sixth Boeing 777- 200LR (LongRange) Worldliner, which is capable of connecting virtually any two cities in the world nonstop, on July 2, 2013. Read more »

• Ethiopia: Chinese Company Wins 91.6km Road Construction Contract

  With construction set to begin in August, the road will help to connect coffee growing areas to Addis Abeba Read more »

• Ethiopia: Pacific Sued in Access Real Estate Scandal

  With other suits being filed against Access and its subsidiaries, there is a strong chance they will soon file for bankruptcy Read more »

• Ethiopia: Dashen Bank Slow to Act On Share Limitations

  With only a month to go before the limitation for the acquisition of shares gets reduced from 20pc to five percent of a bank's paid-up capital, influential shareholders at Dashen... Read more »

• Ethiopia: ERCA Welcomes New Deputy Director General of Enforcement

  Alebachew Negussie, the holder of a state minister's portfolio, will be the second person to occupy the position of deputy director general of enforcement, since the ERCA was... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Transport Chaos Threatens Commuters

  People who reside in towns on the outskirts of the capital city, suffering from a lack of adequate public transportation, line up in Kality terminal after work to go back to their... Read more »

• Ethiopia: City's Audit Woes

  2.25 Billion Birr Is the total amount of money that has not been properly accounted for, by 48 offices under the Addis Abeba City Administration, in 2011/12 fiscal year. Read more »

• Ethiopia: A Positive Self Evaluation for Outgoing City Council

  The evaluation report discussed numerous sectors, but failed to make comparisons to initial goals Read more »

• Ethiopia: New Agreement Enhances Ethio-Djibouti Power Exchange

  Ethiopiawill sell electricity to seven neighbouring countries once the Grand Renaissance Dam project is complete Read more »

• Ethiopia: New Musicians Left Singing the Blues

  Despite the highly increased cost of lyrics, melody and arrangers, Tinsae Gobena could record his album at Mekonen Lema's studio, after a passion of nine years. Read more »

• Ethiopia: State Reshuffle

  Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn Read more »

• Ethiopia: Cooking Up Solutions

  One summer afternoon, in 2008, Aklilu Tiruneh, an engineering student at the Addis Abeba University (AAU), went to his home, around Mesalemia, to find his mother crying. She had... Read more »

• Ethiopia: I Didn't Say That.

  Samia Zakaria, chief executive officer of the Central Statistical Agency (CSA), said this defending herself against a claim that she had formerly attributed the decline in the... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Foreign Magazines Catalyse Reading Culture

  The two brothers, Mengistu and Dino Ismail, 29 and 26, from Waira, Wolliso, in the Guraghe Zone of the Southern Regional State, have been in the business of selling foreign... Read more »

• Ethiopia: Oromia Bureau Seeking Solution to Transport Woes

  The recent directive has had a detrimental impact on many in the region's towns, forcing the Bureau to act Read more »

• Ethiopia: Electro-Dollar an Ethiopian Future?

  The Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), which is under construction on the major tributary of Nile, is expected to generate total revenues of two million dollars per day for... Read more »