Athletics Weekly, UK
February 7, 2010
Steven Mills
Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba won the 5000m in 14:44.53 but the double Olympic 10,000m champion did not threaten Meseret Defar’s world record
DOUBLE Olympic champion Tirunesh Dibaba fell short of regaining her world indoor 5000m record at the Reebok Boston Indoor Games on February 6 but the Ethiopian set a world-leading mark [...]
Dibaba falls short in world record bid at Reebok Boston Indoor Games
Ethiopia: France Telecom wins bid to reform Ethiopia Telecom
Afrik
February 7, 2010
DESALEGN SISAY
France Telecom, the French state owned telecommunication provider, has been selected to manage Ethiopian Telecommunication Corporation (ETC), Ethiopia’s state-owned telecoms provider, after beating South African and Indian bids, a government official has disclosed.
ETC attracted many foreign companies when it floated a bid, a few months ago, inviting firms to undertake its [...]
Thousands flee south every year from Somalia, Ethiopia
Reuters
February 8, 2010
Frank Nyakairu
NAIROBI – At least 17,000 illegal migrants from the Horn of Africa leave their countries for South Africa annually, most of them transiting through Kenya, a top U.N. official said on Monday.
Tal Raviv, a regional programme officer at the U.N.’s International Organisation for Migration (IOM), told Reuters that conflict and poverty were [...]
No snow but Ethiopia’s ski hope is on a roll
Reuters
February 7, 2010
Barry Malone
ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia’s only Olympic skier wheels down a suburban Addis Ababa street on his roller skis, expertly weaving around six donkeys and drawing stares from locals more used to watching runners train.
Robel Teklemariam went to the Turin Winter Olympics four years ago and came 84th out of about 100 [...]
Lebanon recovers crashed Ethiopian jet’s data box
Reuters
February 7, 2010
Laila Bassam
BEIRUT – Search teams have retrieved a flight recorder belonging to an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed off the coast of Lebanon last month killing all 90 people aboard.
Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said on Sunday the teams also located the fuselage of the plane, where most of the bodies of [...]
Ethiopian troops re-enter parts of Somalia
APA
February 7, 2010
Mogadishu(Somalia) Heavily armed Ethiopian troops have occupied parts of the northern regions of Bakool and Hiiraan near the border with Somalia, local residents confirmed Sunday.
Residents in the city of Elbarde in the Bakool region just bordering with Ethiopia said that the heavily armed Ethiopian troops accompanied by hundreds of Somali military trained in [...]
Somali recruits trained for battle in Kenya
Reuters
February 5, 2010
Noor Ali
ISIOLO, Kenya – Thousands of Somalis have been trained in Kenya and are ready to join a Somali government offensive against rebels in the failed Horn of Africa state who have vowed loyalty to al Qaeda, security sources said on Friday.
The international community and neighbouring countries are increasingly worried about the broader [...]
ETHIOPIA: Dam Critics Won’t Go Away
IPS
February 6, 2010
What will happen to the Omo River and the lake it feeds if the Gilgel Gibe III dam is completed?
ADDIS ABABA – 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 [...]
Ethiopia law forces journalists to reveal sources
AFP
February 6, 2010
ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia’s new anti-terror law strips journalists of the right to protect the identity of their sources, a top official said in a statement carried Saturday by the national news agency ENA.
“The anti-terrorism law revoked the rights of journalists not to disclose their information sources when they report on terrorism,” the [...]
Somalia: New Hijacking as Shipping Industry Voices Frustration
allAfrica.com, US
4 February 2010
Andre van Wyk
A Libyan cargo ship carrying a crew of 17, the MV Rim, has been hijacked by Somali pirates operating south of Yemen, as shipping industry groups express frustration at the failure of the international community to crack down effectively on piracy.
The cargo ship was attacked in the Gulf of Aden, [...]
