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Ethiopia PM accuses Eritrea of kidnappings

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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accused Eritrea on Tuesday of abducting dozens of Ethiopian miners from the country's northwest, in a potential escalation of tension between the arch-enemies. Ethiopian troops crossed into the Red Sea state last month and attacked what they said were military bases used by rebels to stage raids, including a January attack that killed five Western touri. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: www.orlandosentinel.com tags: Eritrea, ethiopia

Ethiopia signs Djibouti railway deal with China

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Ethiopia signed an agreement with a Chinese state-run firm to build the final section of a railway line that will link its capital Addis Ababa to the tiny Red Sea state of Djibouti, an official said. The deal signed late on Friday with the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) covers a 339-kilometre line that will join another project to connect the capital with Djibouti. "This agreement is a contract to construct between Mieso, which is half way from Addis Ababa, to the Djibouti bor... (more)

Digg It category: Business | 2 comments | | source: www.reuters.com tags: China, construction, ethiopia, railway

Kenya agrees with Ethiopia on price of importing electricity - Business News |nation.co.ke

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The deal to import 400MW was reached on Monday between Kenya’s Ministry of Energy and Ethiopia’s Ministry of Water and Energy but failed to agree on pricing. According to estimates from the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC), new hydro-power projects price power between $0.093 (Sh7.70) and $0.111 (Sh9.20) per kilowatt hour. One kilowatt hour is equivalent to a single unit of power consumption - what is used to bill customers. (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: www.nation.co.ke tags: development, Electric Power, ethiopia, Export, kenya, Mihret debebe

Ethiopian Electric Power Corp. Signs 14 Contracts with Foreign Firms at Oil Price

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According to Ethiopian Electric Power Corp. executive Miheret Debebe, EEPCo has signed 14 contracts worth more than $300 million with foreign firms to increase Ethiopia’s power output. State company EEPCo has also announced a feasibility study to construct a second massive hydropower project on the upper Nile River is nearly complete, with the project part of Ethiopia’s plans to become a regional power hub in East Africa. Among the foreign firms involved in the projects are companies from Spain, France... (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: oilprice.com tags: EEPCO, Electric Power, ethiopia, Mihret debebe, news about ethiopia

International Water Power and Dam Construction

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Ethiopia is planning to build two new dams across the Nile, with a total capacity of 2100MW, Reuters has reported. The project would be in addition to the 5250MW Millennium Dam, which is currently being developed on the river. Feasibility studies are underway for the two new dams. News Ethiopia planning two new dams Ethiopia is planning to build two new dams across the Nile, with a total capacity of 2100MW, Reuters has reported. The project would be in addition to the 5250MW Millennium ... (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: www.waterpowermagazine.com tags: dam, EEPCO, Electric Power, Mihret debebe

Thousands of Prisoners Freed for New Year

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Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian federal and a regional government announced over the weekend the release and pardon of over 8,000 inmates as the horn of Africa's country celebrates its entry into the new year of 2004. Ethiopia is unique in that it follows the Julian calendar, which is eight years behind the Gregorian calendar adopted my most of the world. Approved by Ethiopian president, Girma Weldegiorgis, the federal government of Ethiopia has released 2,620 inmates on pardon as the East African country ... (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: allafrica.com tags: Addis Ababa, ethiopia, new year, Tesfa-Alem Tekle

Ethiopia: Legendary actor Debebe Eshetu arrested anti-terrorism law | Mike Hitchen Online: i On Global Trends

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Ethiopian police have arrested a famous actor in an ongoing roundup of terrorism suspects that has also netted journalists and prominent opposition politicians. Opposition leaders and rights activists are accusing the government of using a new anti-terrorism law to silence political dissent. Legendary stage and screen actor Debebe Eshetu was shown on Ethiopian television in handcuffs, the latest in a series of government opponents to be charged under a broad anti-terrorism law that went into effect earl... (more)

Digg It category: Politics | comment | | source: ionglobaltrends.blogspot.com tags: debebe eshetu, eprdf, Ginbot 7, Ginbot seven, Mesfin Woldermariam

Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound

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CNN is working with humanitarian organizations and medical officials to get help for the nanny, Shweyga Mullah. We know that viewers around the world want to help too. As soon as we get more information finalized we will post details on our Impact Your World page. Tripoli, Libya (CNN) -- Moammar Gadhafi told his people he lived modestly during his nearly 42-year rule over Libya, often sleeping in a Bedouin tent. Even if that was true for the le (more)

Digg It category: Politics | 1 comment | | source: www.cnn.com tags: libya, news about ethiopia

Rising hunger in south Ethiopia despite lush green

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Malnourished children are flocking into feeding centers in this forested corner of southern Ethiopia after a drought in East Africa extended into this normally fertile region. While the famine in southern Somalia has grabbed headlines, southern Ethiopia is teetering on the brink of a food crisis. The Ethiopian government says 250,000 people need food aid amid what the U.N. says is the worst drought in 60 years. An aid organization and agricultural officials say the number of people who need emergency foo... (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: news.yahoo.com tags: ethiopia, Food, food aid, Somalia

‘Very best in youth’: Abigail Mariam headed to Harvard, career in public policy at Tadias Magazine

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The last time Abigail Mariam was highlighted in Tadias Magazine, she was the recipient of the 2010 Young Humanitarian Award given by The St. Mary Hospital Foundation in California. She was recognized last fall for her activities at the medical center where she began volunteering in 2007 while simultaneously juggling school work and several extra curricular programs, including co-founding an on-campus tutoring club and completing five Advanced Placement courses. Now Abi is headed to Harvard University to... (more)

Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: www.tadias.com tags: abigail mariam, Diaspora, ethiopia, news about ethiopia

Kassa Tessema - Batti - ETHIOPIAN MUSIC‬‏

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Ethiopia needs $398 million for food aid

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Ethiopia said Monday it needed $398 million to help millions of people in need of food aid due to a severe drought. The Horn of Africa region has been hit by one of its worst droughts in decades which has left millions of people facing starvation. "It is estimated that a total of 4.5 million people will require humanitarian assistance during the remaining period of the current year from July to December 2011," Agriculture Minister Mitiku Kassa told reporters. The figure marks a 40-percent ris (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: old.news.yahoo.com tags: ethiopia, Food, food aid, mitiku kassa, news about ethiopia

UN: U.S. Gets 4,200 Ethiopian Troops To Patrol North-South Sudan Border

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Ethiopia to patrol Abyei peace The United Nations Security Council has passed an American resolution to authorize Ethiopia to station 42 hundred peacekeepers in the disputed Abyei region on the border between North and South Sudan. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | 1 comment | | source: www.mathaba.net tags: abeyi, ethiopia, news about ethiopia, Sudan

Concern over journalists' arrest in Ethiopia

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Amnesty International, the UK-based rights group, has voiced concern over the arrest of nine people, including two journalists and two opposition party members, in Ethiopia on suspicion of terrorist offences. Woubishet Taye, a deputy-editor for the weekly Awramba Times, and Reyot Alemu from the Feteh newspaper who were arrested on July 19 and 21, were among those detained. Demelash Woldemikael, the assistant commissioner of Ethiopia's federal police, said: "The group was caught while plotting to sabota... (more)

Digg It category: Politics | 1 comment | | source: english.aljazeera.net tags: amenesty international, awramba times, cpj, Ethiopian Press, reyet alemu, Woubishet taye

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia selects IBM to modernize core banking system - Banking Business Review

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Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has awarded IBM a $3m contract to support the bank in a major program of modernization and business expansion. Under the terms of the agreement, IBM will provide hardware, software and IT services to support the bank in its business growth and its shift from manual financial processes to real-time financial services. With the new IT infrastructure, the bank plans to increase its number of accounts by 25% per year, launch 200 new ATMs per year and open 500 new branches ... (more)

Digg It category: Business | 1 comment | | source: bankingtechnology.banking-business-review.com tags: Bank, bekalu zeleke, CBE, commericial bank of ethiopia, news about ethiopia

Ethiopia to start power supply to Sudan after Djibouti

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Ethiopia will start supplying electric power to neighbouring Sudan next month as part of the Horn of Africa country’s plan to become a regional power exporter. Power exports to Djibouti began two weeks ago. Miheret Debebe, CEO of Ethiopian electric and Power Corporation (EEPCo.) on Monday announced that Ethiopia had begun supplying power to Djibouti as part of an agreement between the two countries. (more)

Digg It category: Economy | 1 comment | | source: www.borglobe.com tags: djibouti, EEPCO, Electric Power, Export, Mihret debebe, Sudan

Ethiopians trapped in Yemen are being evacuated

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Nearly 2,000 Ethiopian migrants trapped in violence-hit Yemen are being evacuated, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) says. It said it had so far flown out 275 Ethiopians, some of whom had gun-shot wounds. Yemen has been hit by months of instability, caused by the president's refusal to bow to opposition demands to quit. (more)

Digg It category: Politics | 1 comment | | source: www.bbc.co.uk tags: ethiopia, news about ethiopia, Yemen

Eritrea volcano ash hits Ethiopia villagers

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Ash spewing from the Nabro volcano in Eritrea has covered villages in Ethiopia, affecting at least 5,000 people, aid workers say. Initial reports said eight villages in the Biddu district of Ethiopia, close to the border, were covered by volcanic dust. Villagers have been left without food and traditional springs and streams have been polluted. (more)

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Marine Reservist in Custody After Pentagon Scare

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A Marine Corps reservist carrying a backpack containing what initially appeared to be bomb-making material was detained near the Pentagon early Friday, but authorities later said the suspicious items were not explosive. Yonathan Melaku, 22, of Alexandria, Va., was discovered after 1 a.m. Friday inside Arlington National Cemetery, several hours after it had closed. As officials investigat (more)

Digg It category: Fun | 1 comment | | source: www.myfoxdc.com tags: Diaspora, news about ethiopia, Yonathan Melaku

Official: Ethiopia inks $100 million deal to purchase more than 200 Ukrainian tanks

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Ethiopia’s government has signed a deal to buy more than 200 tanks at a cost of $100 million from Ukraine’s state-owned military hardware export firm Ukrspetsexport, a Ukrainian official said on June 10. Media in Ukraine, which has exported in the order of $1 billion of arms annually in recent years and mostly to developing countries, said the subject of the deal could be Soviet-designed T-72 tanks. “The deal was signed three days ago. It is one of the biggest deals for the past 15 years,” said the... (more)

Digg It category: Politics | 1 comment | | source: www.kyivpost.com tags: Addis Ababa, eprdf, ethiopia, news about ethiopia

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Ethiopia PM accuses Eritrea of kidnappings

Ethiopia signs Djibouti railway deal with China

Kenya agrees with Ethiopia on price of importing electricity - Business News |nation.co.ke

Ethiopian Electric Power Corp. Signs 14 Contracts with Foreign Firms at Oil Price

International Water Power and Dam Construction

Thousands of Prisoners Freed for New Year

Ethiopia: Legendary actor Debebe Eshetu arrested anti-terrorism law | Mike Hitchen Online: i On Global Trends

Luxury, horror lurk in Gadhafi family compound

Rising hunger in south Ethiopia despite lush green

‘Very best in youth’: Abigail Mariam headed to Harvard, career in public policy at Tadias Magazine

Kassa Tessema - Batti - ETHIOPIAN MUSIC‬‏

Ethiopia needs $398 million for food aid

UN: U.S. Gets 4,200 Ethiopian Troops To Patrol North-South Sudan Border

Concern over journalists' arrest in Ethiopia

Commercial Bank of Ethiopia selects IBM to modernize core banking system - Banking Business Review

Ethiopia to start power supply to Sudan after Djibouti

Ethiopians trapped in Yemen are being evacuated

Eritrea volcano ash hits Ethiopia villagers

Marine Reservist in Custody After Pentagon Scare

Official: Ethiopia inks $100 million deal to purchase more than 200 Ukrainian tanks

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