Ethiopia Green News

Muscular young men from the village of Terate shatter the rock face with sledge hammers; eager children lever tree roots out of the soil with iron poles; and sinewy old women shovel piles of dirt over the verge. FT’s East...

On an average, Ethiopia spends over 10 billion birr ($800 million) annually on importing petroleum, consuming about 90 percent of the hard currency earned from foreign trade each year. Praj will provide consultancy for complete development of the 25,000 hectare...

Ethiopia undertook the construction of an important hydroelectric power project aiming at exporting electricity to neighboring countries. Addis Ababa plans to export electric power supply to Sudan and Djibouti by 2010 and to Kenya by 2011 when the ambitions strategy...

From prolonged droughts to melting ice caps to heavy flooding and unpredictable weather patterns, climate change effects are already wrecking lives in Africa, the continent that pollutes the least. About 23-million people currently face starvation across east Africa as successive...

Africa’s lead negotiator to climate talks, Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi on Tuesday said that continent’s demands from the rich nations on the concerns of climate change is unlikely to be met in next month’s decisive climate summit in Copenhagen....

Opportunity to Lease Farming Land Tradeinvest Africa Staff 17 November 2009 Ethiopia is inviting investors to lease three million hectares of agricultural land to increase food productivity and earn foreign exchange. The agriculture ministry put an advertisement in its website...

Media organizations in wealthy countries regularly send forth reporters to find “victims of global warming.” In dispatches from the Pacific Islands, Bangladesh, or Ethiopia, journalists warn of impending calamity. Global warming is the most horrific challenge facing these regions, we...

Ethiopia today officially inaugurated Tekeze hydropower plant, whose 44 meter concrete Arch dam is biggest of its kind in African continent. The new power plant which went functional as of today was inaugurated in the presence of Prime Minister Meles...