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Toshiba Concludes MOU with Ethiopian Electric Power on Geothermal Power...
TOKYO — Toshiba Corporation today announced that the company has concluded a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Ethiopian Electric Power on a comprehensive partnership in geothermal power that...
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Wyndham Group to Open First Hotel in Addis Ababa by First Half of 2015
Wyndham Hotel Group, the owner of the Days Inn and Ramada chains, will open its first hotel in Ethiopia in the first half of next year as it expands the business across the continent. The unit of...
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Motown Legends Salute Ethiopia Habtemariam At HAL Awards
MOTOWN Founder BERRY GORDY and legendary producer, music publisher and record executive CLARENCE AVANT paid tribute to current MOTOWN President and UNIVERSAL MUSIC PUBLISHING GROUP Pres./Urban...
View ArticleA Man Who Fired A Gun in Ethiopian Embassy Expelled to Ethiopia
According to reports from The Hill and ESAT television an Ethiopian man who allegedly fired a gun during a protest this week at the Ethiopian embassy in Washington, D.C., has left the United States to...
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13 Ethiopians Guilty Over Muslim Face Covering
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — A state-affiliated media group in Ethiopia says a court has found 13 people accused of establishing a secret terrorist network guilty over the issue of Muslim face...
View ArticleEthiopian Gov’t Says US Embassy Intruders in DC Must Be Charged
Ethiopia’s government said it hopes U.S. authorities will prosecute protesters who tried to take down the national flag on the grounds of its embassy in Washington. A security attache at the embassy,...
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Ethiopia Launches Ebola Testing Lab to Combat Epidemic
By Tesfa-Alem Tekle October 12, 2014 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia’s Ministry of Health on Sunday disclosed establishing a modern laboratory centre in a bid to scale up the nation wide efforts to prevent...
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Teddy Afro Detained and Released on 30,000 Birr Bail
October 13, 2014 According to the local radio station report the popular Ethiopian music star, Tewodros Kassahun aka Teddy Afro, has been detained this morning by Ethiopian police for related to...
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Made in Ethiopia: The leather gloves keeping the world warm and stylish – CNN
(CNN) — The steady hum of sewing machines fills the air inside a large glovemaking factory on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, the bustling Ethiopian capital. Patches of leather move through an array of...
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Boom times for Ethiopia’s coffee shops – BBC
By James Jeffrey Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Tomoca now has five cafes across Addis Ababa Traditionally it takes rather a long time to be served a cup of coffee in Ethiopia – but things are now speeding up....
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Ethiopia is Protected from Possible al-Shabab Attacks – Foreign Affairs Ministry
Marthe van der Wolf ( VOA News) Ethiopia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs says the country is protected at all times from attacks by the Somali militant group al-Shabab but is asking its citizens to be...
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Cleaning Addis Abeba – It Is a Sisyphean Task
By Kalikidan Yibeltal More than 10,000 street cleaners are scrambling to clean a city that produces 200,000 tons of waste annually; but their job is a Sisyphean taskIn one uncharacteristically dry late...
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Ethiopian Gov’t Releases 26 Foreign Pilots and 5 Helicopters
By Kaleyesus BekeleThe Ethiopian government last week released five helicopters with 26 foreign crew members who recently entered Ethiopian air space without legal permission.The five Russian-made...
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U.S. Deeply Concerned by Sentence of Ethiopian Journalist Temesgen Desalegn
According to the press release by the U.S. State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki the U.S. government deeply concerned by the recent jail sentence on Ethiopian journalist Temesgen Desalegn.Below is...
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Egypt and Ethiopia Trade Deals to Ease River Nile Row
3 November 2014Egypt and Ethiopia have signed a series of trade agreements which could help smooth diplomatic tensions over use of the River Nile waters.The countries fell out over Ethiopia’s plans to...
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Ethiopia Electric Power Developing 300 MW Of New Solar Projects
November 5th, 2014 by James AyreThe East African country of Ethiopia will be seeing a pretty substantial solar energy buildout in the next few years, based on the recent signing of a memorandum of...
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Ethiopia Will Be Top Tourist Destination by 2020
Addis Ababa (HAN) November 9, 2014. Public Diplomacy and Regional Tourism Security and safety news. According to Expert Analysis, Dr. Ray Muntida, advisor to the IGAD Sustainable Tourism Master Plan...
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Ethiopia Court Requests Detailed Terror Charges Against Bloggers
An Ethiopian court asked prosecutors to amend charges so they specify the acts of terrorism that 10 bloggers and journalists are alleged to have been plotting, a defense lawyer said.The order was made...
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Ethiopian govt threatens to cancel ZTE contract – report
The Ethiopian government has warned Chinese firm ZTE that it may cancel a USD 800 million contract it awarded in 2013 over the costs of equipment, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing sources...
View ArticleCan farming in Ethiopia be successfully commercialised? – BBC VIDEO
There may be a property and infrastructure boom in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, but more than 70% of Ethiopians still live in rural areas – farming grain and livestock.The government, with the...
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