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Ethiopia: food security situation in North Wollo - report
published 2 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 2 days, 4 hours, 46 minutes ago
Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:22:21 AM GMT Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:11:05 AM GMT
Preliminary report of the joint multi-agency team (Disaster Risk Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS), Regional Disaster Prevention and Food Security Bureau, Regional Water Bureau, WFP, UNICEF, OCHA, GOAL and Save the Children UK) indicates that the food security situation in North Wollo and Wag Hemra zones (Amhara) (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.reliefweb.int tags: economy, ethiopia, Food

Launch of Ethiopia's Computer Refurbishment and Training Centre
published 14 days, 4 hours, 47 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 14 days, 4 hours, 48 minutes ago
Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:09:14 AM GMT Thursday, February 25, 2010 6:08:57 AM GMT
The centre has been established by the Ethiopian ICT Development Agency (EICTDA) as part of the ICT Assisted Development (ICTAD) Project, supported by the World Bank and in conjunction with the International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF). (more)
Digg It category: Business | comment | | source: www.iblf.org tags: business, economy, EICTDA

Ethiopian inflation ticks up to 7.6 pct in January | News by Country | Reuters
published 19 days, 5 hours, 19 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 19 days, 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
Saturday, February 20, 2010 5:37:59 AM GMT Saturday, February 20, 2010 5:36:19 AM GMT
Ethiopia's year-on-year inflation rose to 7.6 percent in January from 7.1 percent in December on the back of rising fuel, food and construction material prices, the statistics office said on Thursday. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: af.reuters.com tags: economy, Ethiopia economy, Ethiopia Inflation

Adama Gets First Traffic Lights
published 29 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 29 days, 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:26:22 AM GMT Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:14:22 AM GMT
The installation of the first traffic lights for Adama (Nazareth) Town at three different locations, which cost nearly one million Birr, will be competed and delivered by February 22, 2010, Abdo Mohammed, head of the Administration and Security Office told Fortune. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.addisfortune.com tags: adama, economy

ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won’t Go Away
published 29 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 29 days, 3 hours, 3 minutes ago
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:26:22 AM GMT Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:53:40 AM GMT
Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country’s electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone’s happy. The Gilgel Gibe III dam will hold back 14.7 million cubic metres of water. Its 1,870 MW generating [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: ecadforum.com tags: economy, Electric Power, ethiopia

New Ethiopia dam tunnel collapses
published 29 days, 2 hours, 30 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 29 days, 3 hours, 4 minutes ago
Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:26:22 AM GMT Wednesday, February 10, 2010 7:52:49 AM GMT
A water passage tunnel in a recently inaugurated hydropower dam in Ethiopia has reportedly collapsed, an NGO, International Rivers has said. In a press statement copied to ghanabusinessnews.com, the NGO said a critical water passage tunnel in the newly inaugurated Gilgel Gibe 2 hydropower project in Ethiopia collapsed. About 10 days after the ceremony, [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: ecadforum.com tags: economy, Electric Power

Birr Declines Further against Mighty Dollar
published 34 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 34 days, 2 hours, 10 minutes ago
Friday, February 05, 2010 8:47:07 AM GMT Friday, February 05, 2010 8:46:45 AM GMT
The value of the Birr against the dollar has become further devalued by five per cent, after Ethiopia's macro-economic team chaired by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi made the decision on Friday, January 30, 2009. (more)
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Ethiopia: The new breadbasket of the world?
published 39 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 39 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes ago
Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:50 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:10 AM GMT
Al Amoudi’s Saudi Star Agricultural Development Plc, receives 10,000 hectares in Gambella to farm rice for 60 years rent-free. As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-colonialism’ or much-needed development, writes MARY FITZGERALD Foreign Affairs Correspondent ‘WHY ATTRACTIVE?” reads an [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: abbaymedia.com tags: economy, Food

Ethiopian coffee ceremony at Northwest African American Museum
published 39 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 39 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes ago
Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:42:50 AM GMT Sunday, January 31, 2010 2:27:35 AM GMT
Ethiopia is considered the birthplace of coffee. Legend has it that a goat herder named Kaldi noticed his goats behaving strangely after eating coffee berries. So he tried them, and danced with elation. When he took the beans to a monk, the monk became afraid and threw them in a fire, which sent [...] (more)
Digg It category: Fun | comment | | source: ecadforum.com tags: Coffee, economy

Disputed dam fuels Ethiopia-Kenya border attacks
published 43 days, 7 hours, 19 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 43 days, 7 hours, 30 minutes ago
Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:37:26 AM GMT Wednesday, January 27, 2010 3:26:42 AM GMT
Six Kenyans have been killed and over 2,000 villagers forced to flee home in Lokitaung district in attacks by Ethiopian militia, a Kenyan official said on Tuesday. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: english.people.com.cn tags: economy, ethiopia, Food

Ethiopian dam to 'wreck lives in Kenya'
published 49 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 49 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes ago
Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:12:39 AM GMT Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:12:02 AM GMT
The livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans around the world's largest desert lake will be wrecked by an Ethiopian dam on the lake's main tributary, conservationists said. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: news.yahoo.com tags: economy, Electric Power, Energy, environment

Why residents want Ethiopian dam on River Omo stopped urgently
published 49 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 49 days, 7 hours, 49 minutes ago
Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:12:39 AM GMT Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:07:53 AM GMT
Turkana residents, leaders and civil society activists have opposed construction of a dam on River Omo. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.standardmedia.co.ke tags: economy, Electric Power, environment

Ethiopian dam to wreck lives in Kenya: conservation group
published 49 days, 7 hours, 44 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 49 days, 7 hours, 51 minutes ago
Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:12:39 AM GMT Thursday, January 21, 2010 3:05:44 AM GMT
The livelihood of hundreds of thousands of Kenyans around the world's largest desert lake will be wrecked by an Ethiopian dam on the lake's main tributary, conservationists said Wednesday. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.terradaily.com tags: economy, Electric Power

The Checkered Face of Famine in Ethiopia
published 58 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 58 days, 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:42:59 AM GMT Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:34:25 AM GMT
Ethiopia’s “Silently” Creeping Famine “Oh! What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” said Sir Walter Scott, the novelist and poet. Is there “famine” in Ethiopia, or not? Are large numbers of people “starving” there, or not? Is convulsive hunger a daily reality for the [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: ethioforum.org tags: economy, Food

British oil firm to prospect oil in Ethiopia
published 58 days, 2 hours, 14 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 58 days, 2 hours, 35 minutes ago
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:42:59 AM GMT Tuesday, January 12, 2010 8:21:58 AM GMT
The London based Tullow Oil, is expected to prospect oil in Ethiopia after a deal signed with the US SouthWest Energy which holds acreage in the Horn of Africa country. According to the HIS International Oil Letter, a weekly news letter on oil industry, Tullow will explore oil in Ogaden basin [...] (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: awramba.com tags: economy, Oil

Ethiopian Commodity Exchange Traded Over 4.2 Billion Birr In 2009
published 60 days, 7 hours, 16 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 60 days, 7 hours, 32 minutes ago
Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:40:43 AM GMT Sunday, January 10, 2010 3:24:37 AM GMT
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) traded about 170,000 tonnes of coffee valued over 4.2 billion birr in 2009, said Eleni Z. G.Medhine, CEO of ECX. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.ezega.com tags: Coffee, economy, ECX

በአንድ ዓመት ጊዜ የኢትዮጵያ ምርት ገበያ የ4.2 ቢሊዮን ብር የቡና ግብይት ማከናወኑ ተገለጸ
published 61 days, 4 hours, 34 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 61 days, 5 hours, 11 minutes ago
Saturday, January 09, 2010 6:22:27 AM GMT Saturday, January 09, 2010 5:45:18 AM GMT
የኢትዮጵያ የምርት ገበያ የቡናን ግብይት በጀመረበት በአንድ ዓመት ጊዜ ውስጥ ከ170 ሺህ ቶን በላይ የሚሆን የ4.2 ቢሊዮን ብር ቡና በተሳካ ሁኔታ ማሻሻጥ መቻሉን የምርት ገበያው ዋና አስተዳዳሪ ዶክተር እሌኒ ዘውዴ ገ/መድህን ለሪፖርተር ገለፁ፡፡ (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.ethiopianreporter.com tags: Coffee, economy

Ethiopia to Plug-in 2,100MW Dam
published 67 days, 14 hours, 33 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 67 days, 14 hours, 35 minutes ago
Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:23:36 PM GMT Saturday, January 02, 2010 8:21:35 PM GMT
The Ethiopian government is to build what could become the largest ever hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile River off Bure town on the road to Nekemt at Bako-Ambo area in the Oromia Regional State, close to the border with Amhara. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: addisfortune.com tags: economy, Electric Power

Doubts on Ethiopian economic growth
published 88 days, 13 hours, 50 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 88 days, 14 hours, 45 minutes ago
Saturday, December 12, 2009 9:06:47 PM GMT Saturday, December 12, 2009 8:11:57 PM GMT
The economic trend in Ethiopia has got different views from the economic analysis and claims by the government.  At a time where economic growth claims are diminished by looming famine,  Ethiopian government officials  are trying to (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: www.addisvoice.com tags: economy

Ethiopia: Nearly 5 Million Ethiopians Will Need Food Aid in First Half of 2010, UN Reports
published 92 days, 5 hours, 6 minutes ago posted by adminadmin 92 days, 5 hours, 21 minutes ago
Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:50:33 AM GMT Wednesday, December 09, 2009 5:35:43 AM GMT
Some 4.8 million Ethiopians will require emergency food and related aid costing $270 million for the first six months of 2010 in a country already plagued by prolonged drought and crop failure, according to United Nations estimates released today. (more)
Digg It category: Economy | comment | | source: allafrica.com tags: economy
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