May 19, 2013 - The spokesperson o f the Sudan Armed Forces announced that they would soon retake the Abu Karshola in South Kordofan from the rebels who seized the area last April. The fighter of the Sudanese Revolutionary Front repulsed for the second time on Monday 13 May ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
ADDIS ABABA: For Bethlehem Tilahun, the answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or sympathy or donations from the West. It's shoes.Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs, empowers employees, like the one she founded ...
- Business Recorder - PK
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 18, 2013 - The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on US secretary of state John Kerry to address African leaders on the issue of press freedom in Africa during an upcoming continental summit. In a letter to the US official, CPJ urged Kerry to ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
May 18, 2013 - The Sudanese defence minister, Abdel-Rahim Hussein, has reiterated the ability of the Sudan Armed Forces to defeat the rebel groups, stressing that they would completely annihilate rebellion from the country. The Minister addressed a farewell celebration for ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
A strong Kenyan wave will look to extend its domination of the Bangalore roads when the TCS World 10K breaks the early morning calm on Sunday with the mighty footsteps of the African youth.Kenyan runners have successfully warded off the challenge from their great African ...
- Deccan Herald - IN
From May 21-27, Secretary Kerry will travel to Muscat, Amman, Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Addis Ababa to discuss a range of regional issues; meet with key international partners; and participate in the World Economic Forum.
- US Gov. State Department - US
With focus on Syria and Israel-Palestine conflict US Secretary of State John Kerry would travel to the Middle East and Africa next week with stops in Muscat, Amman, Jerusalem, Ramallah and Addis Ababa.
- Zee News - IN
The humanitarian situation in a rural area of eastern South Sudan appears to be worsening after a hosptial run by an international medical group was heavily damaged in violence last week. Residents are fleeing Pibor town, which is in Jonglei state, near the border with ...
- Voice of America - US
Luxemburg, May 17. -- The Kingdom of Bahrain took part in the international donor conference to aid development in Mali held recently in Belgium, Brussels. Bahraini Ambassador to the Kingdom of Belgium and the European Union Ahmed Mohammed Al Dossary led the Kingdom's ...
- Bahrain News Agency - BH
AL-BAHA — A mother and her daughter barely escaped death after their Ethiopian housemaid attacked them with a knife, stabbing the mother in the shoulder. Al-Baha police spokesman Lt. Col. Saad Al-Ghamdi said the attack was reported by the father and police officers ...
- Saudi Gazette - SA
WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will attend talks on Syria in Amman on Wednesday, the State Department said, as major powers try to bring the Syrian government and opposition to peace talks in June. Kerry's visit is part of a one-week trip that begins in Oman ...
- Yahoo! News - US
By IANS, Beijing : Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will pay an official visit to Zimbabwe and attend a special summit of the African Union in Ethiopia from May 21 to 25, reported Xinhua. Wang will attend the special summit to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ...
- TwoCircles.net - IN
The Danakil Depression in Ethiopia is one of the hottest and harshest environments on earth, and home to the country's ancient salt trade that has remained unchanged for centuries - until now.
- Daily Mail - UK
Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang will pay an official visit to Zimbabwe and attend a special summit of the African Union in Ethiopia from May 21 to 25, reported Xinhua.
- Sify - IN
By IANS, Mumbai : In one of the biggest seizure of drugs, customs officials at Mumbai Airport Friday nabbed a South African woman carrying 26 kg of drugs worth over Rs.13 crore, an official said here. The woman, identified as Sity Lentin , had concealed the drugs in her ...
- TwoCircles.net - IN
Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia that is one of the hottest places on earth. Now 51 and retired, he has passed his camels to his son to pursue this ...
- Voice of America - US
By Siegfried Modola HAMAD-ILE, Ethiopia - Abdu Ibrahim Mohammed was 15 years old when he began trekking with caravans of camels to collect salt in a sun-blasted desert basin of north Ethiopia that is one of the hottest places on earth. Now 51 and retired, he has passed his ...
- Yahoo! News - US
NAIROBI, Kenya, May 17 - Three people were killed on Thursday night in Mandera during an attack blamed on militiamen from the neighbouring Ethiopia. Those killed were all women shot dead by the armed militia at Malkamau area, police said. The militia just shot at the women ...
- CapitalFM Kenya - KE
May 16, 2013 - Five people were killed and six others wounded on Wednesday in an ambush on a convoy carrying the king of the Anuak tribe from South Sudan's eastern Jonglei state to Pinyudo in Ethiopia. While king Akwai Aganda Akwai Cham escaped the attack unharmed, his ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 16, 2013 - The United Nations special rapporteur on Eritrea, Sheila B. Keetharuth, said the human rights situation in the reclusive Red Sea nation remained “unacceptable”, calling for the country to be closely monitored. Keetharuth made ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
The Ethiopian wolf is even rarer than the giant panda and only 500 survive. This latest report...
- Born Free Foundation - UK
This meeting is organized in Addis Ababa, from 20 to 22 May on the occasion of the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the creation of the OAU , the experts will bring together 35 to 40 specialists from Africa and other regions of the world, and representing different ...
- UN - INT
A preview of world events in the coming week from CFR.org: The US debt ceiling suspension expires; the African Union summit takes place in Addis Ababa; and East Timor celebrates its 11th anniversary of independence.
- The Council on Foreign Relations - US
An Ethiopian journalist has been arrested and interrogated for writing an article about the wife of late prime minister Meles Zenawi. Wednesday's arrest came as a surprise since the article was published seven months ago. Ethiopian journalist Ferew Abebe, editor-in-chief ...
- Voice of America - US
Indian-owned firms in Ethiopia are making flowers the countrys third-largest export earner after coffee and khat, a kind of chewable cannabis.In the last five years, the Ethiopian floriculture industry has become the second largest flower exporter in Africa and fourth ...
- Deccan Herald - IN
Indian-owned firms in Ethiopia are making flowers the country's third-largest export earner after coffee and khat, a kind of chewable cannabis.
- IndiaVision - IN
By Hadra Ahmed, IANS, Addis Ababa : Indian-owned firms in Ethiopia are making flowers the country's third-largest export earner after coffee and khat, a kind of chewable cannabis. In the last five years, the Ethiopian floriculture industry has become the second largest ...
- TwoCircles.net - IN
Cairo, May 16 - The Egyptian authorities have deported 50 Ethiopians who were arrested while trying to sneak into Israel. The deportees arrived at Cairo International Airport last night amid tight security coming from the North Sinai where they were arrested. The security ...
- Bahrain News Agency - BH
May 15, 2013 - Representatives from four bordering states in Ethiopia and Sudan have agreed to work closely to prevent cross-border crimes in a meeting between the two sides. Authorities in Amhara regional state said on Tuesday that the joint meeting, which aimed at further ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
UNESCO/Addis Ababa, 20 - 22 May 2013.
- UN - INT
Mishal Al-Otaibi Saudi Gazette RIYADH — An Ethiopian housemaid took off her clothes on a Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to Addis Ababa on Tuesday. The pilot was about to land in the Ethiopian capital but due to adverse weather conditions he had to abort the landing and ...
- Saudi Gazette - SA
Uganda is the leading coffee exporter in Africa, beating Ethiopia the continent's leading producer in the region. Ethiopia produced more but exported less because a large part of its output is consumed locally unlike in Uganda where consumption is less than 2 percent.
- Daily Monitor - UG
Israel, a crucible of immigrants from places as diverse as Ethiopia and Lithuania who live interspersed with an indigenous 20 percent Arab minority, simply can't be boiled down into a monolithic Jewishness.
- Yahoo! News - US
Midfielder Kagisho Dikgacoi is hoping to bring his English First Division club form to Bafana Bafana should he be selected for South Africa's crucial World Cup qualifiers away to the Central African Republic and Ethiopia next month.
- SouthAfrica.info - ZA
By Magdi El Gizouli Mai 15, 2013 - More than two weeks have passed since the hit and run attack of the Sudan Revolutionary Front on Um Rwaba in North Kordofan a day after of the collapse of talks between the Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement in North Sudan and the ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
Roger Thurow Ten years after the Ethiopian famine of 2003, when international food aid rushed in to feed 14 million people, another World Food Program tent has been erected on an open field. But this isn't a scene of food distribution. It is a scene of food purchase. The ...
- Pulitzer Center - US
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 14, 2013 - An Ethiopian federal policeman shot dead 14 innocent people in the northern west city of Bahirdar, a regional police source told Sudan Tribune on Tuesday. Amhara regional police commissioner, Mulgeta Worku, said the shooter randomly opened ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
Rift Valley Railways , the company that got the 25-year concession to manage the railway network in the country is set to rehabilitate and upgrad
- New Vision - UG
Kuwait-May-14The Amir of Kuwait His Highness Shaikh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah today received Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and discussed bilateral relations and means of boosting cooperation.A H N BNA 1751 GMT 2013/05/14
- Bahrain News Agency - BH
Kenyan-based private equity fund, Catalyst Principal Partners, has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Ethiopian firm Yes Brands Food & Beverages.
- BusinessDailyAfrica - KE
Kenya-based private equity firm Catalyst has acquired a 50 per cent stake in Ethiopian food and drink maker Yes Brands to tap into the Horn of Africa nation's large population and fast economic growth.
- BusinessDailyAfrica - KE
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia â An Ethiopian court ruled Tuesday that prosecutors have two weeks to finalize corruption charges against two dozen people who have been arrested, including a senior Cabinet minister.
- The Boston Globe - US
Sidama Elto is one of 16 cooperative unions in Ethiopia that have signed forward contracts with the WFP for the purchase of more than 28,000 metric tons of maize grown by their smallholder farmer members. The maize, which is part of 112,000 tons of food the WFP purchased in ...
- UN - INT
This is a transcript of a speech made by HE Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ethiopia, on 13 May 2013 at Chatham House. The speaker reflected on 50 years of change and cooperation in Africa since the founding of the African Union's predecessor, the ...
- Chatham House - UK
By Hadra Ahmed, IANS, Addis Ababa : The Ethiopian branch of a private Indian college has been barred from registering new students for four distance learning programmes until it renews its accreditation with its partner institution in India. The existing students can, ...
- TwoCircles.net - IN
The Ethiopian branch of a private Indian college has been barred from registering new students for four distance learning programmes until it renews its accreditation with its partner institution in India. The existing students can, however, continue.
- IndiaVision - IN
A new UNESCO-China-Africa initiative is scheduled to take off in June 2013. Education specialists from Ethiopia, Namibia and Ivory Coast met on 11-12 April at UNESCO Headquarters to plan the implementation of the UNESCO-Chinese Funds-In-Trust programme, Enhancing Teacher ...
- UN - INT
Name: Cara Christie Position: Disaster operations specialist, U.S. Agency for International Development Best known for: In 2011 and 2012, Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia were reeling from the region's worst drought and famine in 60 years. Malnutrition and death rates soared, ...
- Washington Post - US
Khalaf Al-Harbe Okaz AS many as 40 Yemeni and Ethiopian infiltrators were nabbed by the security patrols in Hail. They had taken refuge in the university campus and the housing built there for the workers. This was reported by Okaz earlier this week. You ...
- Saudi Gazette - SA
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle May 12, 2013 - The Federal Ethics and Anti-corruption Commission of Ethiopia on Saturday announced that it has detained 13 high-profile government officials and individuals on graft charges. Among the arrested is minister Melaku Fenta, director general of ...
- SudanTribune.com - FR
