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.
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 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 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 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.
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.
'No alternative in the opposition,' they whispered anonymously. What a disgusting phrase to use in justifying support for a ruthless dictatorship.
A familiar story of looming famine is filtering out of East Africa.
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.
In July 2007, the Presidents and the Boards of the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) requested a joint evaluation of agriculture and rural development (ARD) policies and operations of both institutions in Africa. Undertaken jointly by the independent evaluation offices of both institutions, the evaluation had four objectives. These were ...
The World Summit on Food Security, which is being held in Rome between 16 and 18 November 2009, is being fully supported by the African Development Bank (AfDB).
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, ...
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.
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.
One of the key resolutions aims at strengthening, pursuing and improving reforms of existing public procurement systems so as to make them more effective, efficient and transparent, through institutional capacity building and by ensuring systemic integrity. This will strengthen good governance and accountability in public finance as well as improved social services and poverty reduction.
