The objective of the project is to help reduce rural poverty in Uganda by facilitating access to and utilization of affordable financial and business development services for an estimated 1.4 million rural poor in the country's districts.
United Bank for Africa (UBA) Liberia Limited has signed a $10 million financing deal with Liberia's leading telecom company, Lonestar Limited; a company owned 51% by MTN Communications Limited for a network expansion programme. The deal is one of the biggest single projects financing by a commercial bank in the country and underscores UBA Group's role in project financing across Africa.
The second phase of the Dar es Salaam-Isaka-Kigali/Keza-Musongati Railway project study will cover the existing 970-km Dar es Salaam-Isaka railway link and its extensions.
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.
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.
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.
