Ethiopian awarded anti-FGM prize
Source: BBC
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-22 09:15:30 -0700 | technology-news
Ethiopian activist Bogaletch Gebre has won an international prize for her campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). Ms Gebre was awarded the King Baudouin Prize in Belgium for confronting "culturally entrenched taboo subjects", the selection committee said.
Ethiopian corruption watchdog arrests 51 suspects
Source: The Boston Globe
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-22 05:45:41 -0700 | political-news
Ethiopia (AP) Ethiopian authorities have carried out another wave of arrests that brings the number of people detained on suspicions of corruption to more than 50. Berhanu Assefa of the country's federal ethics and anti-corruption commission says at least 51...
Ethiopia Insurance Industry forecasts to value US$387.8 million in 2017
Posted by: ReportsnReports
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-22 04:37:18 -0700 | business-news
ReportsnReports.com adds "The Insurance Industry in Ethiopia, Key Trends and Opportunities to 2017" this new market research study to its store. The Ethiopian insurance industry is relatively under developed in comparison to that of other African countries. The nation recorded...
President Kenyatta to attend landmark AU summit
Source: Daily Nation
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-22 11:50:55 -0700 | political-news
This picture taken on August 6, 1963 shows Algerian President Ahmed Ben Bella (R), flanked by Senegalese Foreign minister Doudou Thiam (L) and Algerian Minister of Youth, Sport and Tourism, Abdelaziz Bouteflika (2ndL behind, with sunglasses) attending the council of...
Morehouse College salutes valedictorian Betsegaw Tadele
Source: Datzhott
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-22 10:49:00 -0700 | entertainment-news
A computer science major with a minor in mathematics, he won all of the departmental awards in every math class that he took. He also won the Computer Science Leadership and Scholarship award. He is member of Phi Beta Kappa,...
Ethiopia: Country Earns U.S.$2.2 Billion From Exports
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 08:41:24 -0700 | business-news
Ethiopia Earns $2.2 Billion From Exports 19 May 2013 Ethiopia secured close to 2.2 billion dollars from export during the last nine months of the current fiscal year, which only shows a 2.8pc increment compared to the same period last...
To Do Monday: Cry Freedom
Source: The New York Observer
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 08:04:16 -0700 | political-news
In Ethiopia, the word natsanat means freedomsomething there's been way too little of in that tragically war-torn part of the world. That's why the short documentary Natsanat , which shares the heroic stories of young female freedom fighters who helped...
Ethiopia: IMF Projects 5.5 Percent Growth Rate for Ethiopia in 2014
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 07:42:38 -0700 | business-news
Following a year of strong growth in 2012 the near-term outlook for Ethiopia remains broadly positive, with growth projected to accelerate modestly to around 5.5pc in 2014, according to International Monetary Fund's (IMF) Regional Economic Outlook published last week.
Africa: African Soil Diversity Mapped for the First Time
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 06:43:30 -0700 | green-news
They say that despite soil's importance, most people in Africa lack knowledge about it, partly because information about it tends to be confined to academic publications read only by scientists. "There was an existing database on soil that had not...
Africa: Welcome Remarks by Chairperson of the AU Commission to the Opening Session
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 06:52:07 -0700 | political-news
Welcome Remarks by HE Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma, Chairperson of the African Union Commission To the Opening session of the 26th Ordinary Session of the Permanent Representatives Committee (PRC) Addis Ababa, 19 May 2013 Your Excellency, the Ambassador of the...
VIDEO: From tyres to shoes in Ethiopia
Source: BBC
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 07:49:34 -0700 | travel-news
Turning car tyres into shoes at Ethiopian factory 20 May 2013 Last updated at 01:39 ET African leaders are gathering in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to mark 50 years of the African Union and its predecessor, the Organisation of...
Ethiopia: Farmers Co-Op Seat Auction Postponed At ECX
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 00:30:51 -0700 | political-news
The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has postponed the bid opening date of the auction of thirty membership seats it floated exclusively for farmers' cooperatives, to May 16, 2013...ECX has stated that it wants more participation by farmers' cooperatives, which is...
Kenya: Govt Says Ruto's Jet Hired for Sh18.5 Million
Source: Africa Headlines
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-20 00:30:50 -0700 | political-news
Nairobi The government has denied reports that it spent Sh100 million in hiring a private jet for Deputy President William Ruto to use on his four African nation tour. In a statement read by the Communication Permanent Secretary Bitange Ndemo,...
Boosting Ethiopia's economy, one shoe at a time
Source: Times of Oman
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-19 07:00:59 -0700 | business-news
52 pm For Bethlehem Tilahun, the answer to ending poverty in Africa is not aid or sympathy or donations from the West...Specifically, building a successful shoe manufacturing business that creates jobs, empowers employees, like the one she founded -- SoleRebels,...
Cedric 'Im' Brooks: eclectic and eccentric
Source: Jamaica Daily Gleaner
Addis Ababa :: Ethiopia | updated 2013-05-19 01:48:33 -0700 | entertainment-news
An alumnus of the celebrated Alpha Boys' School, Brooks succeeded in becoming another of that institution's poster figures. He is of the generation that followed saxophonist Tommy McCook and trombonist Don Drummond...He later honed his skills and embraced Rastafari at...
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