Reuters September 2, 2010 Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA – Ethiopia on Thursday rejected criticism of its massive hydropower dam projects and vowed to push ahead with plans to boost its power generating ability from 2,000 MW to 10,000 MW within five years. The Horn of Africa nation’s ambitious dam building programme has drawn fire from [...]
Category Archives: Ethiopia
ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Refugees embrace life “out of camps”
September 2, 2010 – 9:24 pm
lRIN August 30, 2010 Photo: Wikimedia Commons A boy carries water at the Shimelba refugee camp in northern Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA – Kibrom Sebhatu, 45, is among hundreds of Eritreans expected to benefit from a recent Ethiopian government ruling allowing Eritrean refugees to live outside the camps. “I am happy that UNHCR [the UN Refugee [...]
Ethiopia Bans Distance Education, Cracks Down on Private Universities
September 2, 2010 – 9:19 pm
VOA August 31, 2010 Peter Heinlein Ethiopia has banned off-campus education, and ordered private universities to close degree programs in law and education. A directive issued by Ethiopia’s Education Ministry describes distance learning at off-campus sites as “unnecessary at this stage” and orders all such operations to stop enrolling new students immediately. The proclamation also [...]
Ethiopian birr devalued, IMF welcomes move
September 2, 2010 – 9:18 pm
Reuters September 1, 2010 Barry Malone * Birr at weighted average of 16.3514 against dollar * IMF says devaluation will “bolster competitiveness” ADDIS ABABA – The Ethiopian birr ETB= was devalued by 16.7 percent on Wednesday, according to exchange rates published on the central bank’s website, a move welcomed by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). [...]
UN says 270,000 at risk as floods loom in Ethiopia
September 2, 2010 – 9:13 pm
Reuters August 30, 2010 Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA – More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the country, according to government estimates issued by the United Nations on Monday. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 19 [...]
Ethiopia Insurance Corporation struggling to compensate Ethiopian Airlines
September 2, 2010 – 9:11 pm
Afrik August 31, 2010 Desalegn Sisay Ethiopian Airlines has made an overwhelming insurance claim from the state owned Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC) for the crash of one of its aircraft off the coast of Beirut, Lebanon in January this year. The Ethiopian Insurance Corporation has reported a 1.5 billion birr insurance claim by Ethiopian Airlines [...]
Egypt’s ASCOM says found gold targets in Ethiopia
September 2, 2010 – 9:10 pm
Reuters August 29, 2010 CAIRO – Egypt’s ASEC Company for Mining (ASCOM) said on Sunday it had found two gold mining targets in an Ethiopian concession with enough tonnage and grade potential to suggest an economic discovery is possible. ASCOM plans to start drilling on the 800-square-kilometre Asosa concession in Western Ethiopia in October, it [...]
Awramba Times Says Government Demands to Know Its Information Sources
August 29, 2010 – 11:56 pm
Addis Neger online, US/UK August 27, 2010 One of Ethiopia’s independent weekly newspapers claimed that the government has requested it to reveal its information sources for its news. According to the information posted on the newspaper’s website, the request was made on a letter sent to Awramba Times on August 26, 2010 by the Ethiopian [...]
Report says EU biofuel demand fuelling land grab in Africa
August 29, 2010 – 11:50 pm
Xinhua, China August 27, 2010 NAIROBI – The demand for biofuel in the European Union is fuelling land grabbing in Africa, reducing the land available to grow crops in a continent that already faces food deficit situation, a new report has said. The EU is targeting to use at least 10 percent biofuel by 2020 [...]
Ethiopia troops in Somalia to battle radicals
August 29, 2010 – 11:48 pm
Daily Nation, Kenya August 29, 2010 Abdulkadir Khalif Mogadishu – A large number of Ethiopian troops in military vehicles on Sunday reached Somali villages after crossing its borders with Hiran region in Central Somalia. The Ethiopians, according to residents in the Beledweyne town, 335 kilometres north of Mogadishu, seem more serious than before to tackle [...]
