Ethiopia News

Gonder June 18/2013 Three farmers' cooperatives unions in North Gondar Zone, Amhara State secured over three million USD from export of sesame in the current Ethiopian year, zonal cooperatives promotion office said.

The Panama canal is being upgraded at a cost of $5.25 billion to ensure it is capable of handling the ever-increasing size of the world's biggest cargo ships.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt, Mohamed Kamel Amr and the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus met in Addis Ababa on Tuesday 18 June 2013.

Ethiopia's green growth strategy is exemplary to other African countries, says the African Power Utility Association .

Homera June 17/2013 Dansha Town in Western Tigray Zone has got access to round-the-clock electric power service, the town administration said.

The construction of the Meiso-Djibouti railway line project that link Ethiopia with Djibouti was launched last month at a cost of 1.4 billion birr.

The Chinese government supports domestic companies getting more actively involved in investment cooperation with Ethiopia in a wide range of sectors from infrastructure to manufacturing, Premier Li Keqiang said on Thursday.

The foreign ministers of Egypt and Ethiopia met in Addis Ababa on Monday in hopes of defusing tensions over a huge dam Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile River.

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Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnin has called on Ethiopian diaspora to strengthen their participation on the ongoing development efforts at home.

Addis Ababa/London - Ethiopia may be one of the fastest-growing, non-oil producing economies in Africa in recent years, but corruption in this Horn of Africa nation is a deterrent to foreign investors looking for stable long-term partnerships in developing countries.

CAIRO , June 15, 2013 - "Egypt is the gift of the Nile" said Herodotus, the father of history, more than 2000 years ago when he visited the desert country in which the river is its main vein of life.

Soon the Minister for Foreign Affairs will inaugurate the new diaspora policy. Representatives of the diaspora community are expected in Addis Ababa from all over the world.

Addis Ababa, June 15: The Export-Import Bank of India has approved a $300 million worth of line of credit to Ethiopia, paving the way for construction of a railway line linking this landlocked country in the Horn of Africa to a port city in neighbouring Djibouti.

The largest IT company in central and Eastern Europe has shortlisted four Ethiopian companies in its search for an East African partner.

Ursus SA has been in business for 120 years. Officials told Ethiopian journalists at Lublin, Poland, that staff will spend a week in Ethiopia and is looking for investors here who are interested in importing its products.

President Yoweri Museveni has sternly warned the Egyptian "government and other groups" against making "chauvinist and irrational statements" in the wake of Ethiopia's decision to construct a multi-billion dollar electricity dam, Chimp Corps report.

The Government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the United Nations Office to the African Union signed a Host Country Agreement on Thursday, June 13th.

With nine million Ethiopians in need of food aid [every year] and rains in the country becoming ever more unreliable, the talking [over the use of the Nile waters] should not go on too long.