The Daily Star, Lebanon
March 9, 2010
BEIRUT: Further legal proceedings commenced on Monday against the US aeronautical giant Boeing, seeking compensation for relatives of victims from the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash.
Chicago-based firm Ribbeck Law brought the multi-million dollar case to court following the filing of petitions from 11 Ethiopian families seeking reimbursement from the disaster [...]
Ethiopian crash compensation lawsuit continues as fault still under debate
Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
World Politics Review, US
March 9, 2010
Lauren Gelfand
Lauren Gelfand is a Nairobi-based political and security analyst
NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi’s Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to [...]
Brought to U.S., Man Is Charged With Aiding Somali Terrorists
NY Times
March 8, 2010
COLIN MOYNIHAN
A man has been brought to the United States from Nigeria to face charges that he provided money to a Somali terrorist group — and that he received military training from that group.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan unsealed an indictment on Monday accusing the man, Mohamed Ibrahim Ahmed, of conspiring to provide [...]
Ethiopia to take part in IAAF’s championship despite diplomatic row with Qatar
APA
March 9, 2010
Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia) A team of Ethiopian athletics will leave on Wednesday morning for Qatar, Doha to take part in the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) World Indoor Championships from 12-14 March.
The Ethiopian athletics team is traveling to Qatar despite a diplomatic row that erupted in 2008 between the two countries.
Ethiopia [...]
Even Band Aid is not above criticism
Guardian
March 8, 2010
Rageh Omaar
Bob Geldof is furious at the BBC story about NGO funds buying rebels’ arms, but the politics of delivering aid are always complex
There are some things that are just too sensitive and difficult to inquire about, and the idea that considerable sums that ordinary people around the world – but especially here [...]
Limousines, finery, feast, new features of weddings in Ethiopia
APA
Omar Faye
Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) One Saturday afternoon on Bole Road, a street in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the admiring look and cheers of passers-by, an endless convoy of immaculate limousines and gleaming Mercedes Benz cars appear suddenly, with a blare of horns.
Driving in one of those limousines, which was snowed under with sprays of flowers, [...]
Dams across Nile to Generate 4,000MW Plus
Fortune, Ethiopia
March 7, 2010
Pre-feasibility study contracts are worth 290m Br
Ethiopia gave 290 million Br worth of consultancy contracts for the feasibility studies of what could become two of the world’s largest hydroelectric dams.
The contract was signed Thursday, March 4, 2010, between the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) and two local companies, Tropics Consulting Engineers and [...]
Ethiopian PM denies aid was diverted
The Independent, UK
March 9, 2010
Stung by BBC allegations that Live Aid money was spent on weapons, Meles Zenawi tells Paul Vallely that the report is based on lies
The prime minister of Ethiopia has stepped into the row between Sir Bob Geldof and the BBC which has claimed that 95 per cent of the $100m aid [...]
First Ethiopian runner to test positive for EPO
Universal Sports
March 7, 2010
Elshadai Negash and Tadele Assefa
Ethiopia’s Olympian marathon runner Shetaye Gemechu has received a two-year ban from the Ethiopian Athletics Federation (EAF) after testing positive for the banned substance EPO.
Gemechu, who competed for Ethiopia in the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Olympic Marathons, is a regular in the U.S. road running circuit winning the [...]
Canada to ban militant Somali Islamist group
Reuters
March 8, 2010
Canada will list al Shabaab — a Somali-based Islamist militant group which recently pledged allegiance to al Qaeda — as a “terrorist group” to prevent it from operating or seeking funds, the Canadian government said on Sunday.
Canada said it took action after it received reports from the Somali community that Al Shabaab has [...]
