Month: October 2015

  • Africa

    Standard Bank consolidates its East African presence with official opening of Ethiopian representative office

    Standard Bank Group has expanded its already extensive East African footprint with the official opening of a representative office in Ethiopia. This means that Standard Bank, which is Africa’s largest bank by assets, has a continent-wide footprint in 20 African countries.   The representative office, which is based in Addis Ababa, was opened by Standard Bank Chief Executive, Ben Kruger.…

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  • Africa

    Economist’s Ethiopia Summit Kicks off

    The Economist’s first Ethiopia Summit has kicked off Wednesday at the Sheraton Hotel here in Addis Abeba. Part of a series of high growth country summits organized by the Economist bringing together industry and business leaders as well as government officials, the two day Summit themed “Driving Continued Growth,” provides a platform to discuss the factors shaping the country’s growth.…

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  • Africa

    Latest MDG Progress Report Released

    Ethiopia Shows Progress to Meet the Targets but Lagging Behind on Gender Equality and Maternal Health The latest report assessing Ethiopia’s progress towards Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) is released Thursday in Addis Abeba at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa. The MDG progress reports have in the past been used as a strong advocacy tool to accelerate progress and…

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  • Entertainment

    The many hands of Henock Temesgen

    Mahlet Fasil As a host of a one hour radio show, “Timeless Classics”, on Sheger FM 102.1, every Saturday afternoon at 6 pm, the bassist Henock Temesgen plays popular old tunes from Willie Nelson to The Temptations, form Bob Dylan to The Jackson Five. For those listeners who prefer standard Jazz and the likes of John Coltrane or Miles Davis,…

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  • Africa

    More Than 4.6 Million children in Ethiopia facing hunger from current drought

    Close to five million children risk going hungry as the result of a worsening food crisis in Ethiopia brought on by a severe drought across normally green and productive regions – making this natural disaster the worst in recent history, warns Save the Children. Three hundred and fifty thousand children are already severely malnourished, which if left untreated, can cause…

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  • Africa

    Hawassa University to host international symposium on balancing soil nutrients

    Land degradation worldwide costs an estimated US$10.6 trillion every year and presents a huge challenge to future global food security. In sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, soil nutrient-depletion is directly related, where fertilizer use and agricultural productivity rates are the lowest in the world. Many African countries use little or no potash fertilizers, which are crucial for balanced fertilization and sustainable…

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  • Africa

    EU Foreign Policy Chief visits Ethiopia, AU

    Issues of Peace and Security, Migration, Economic Cooperation, Democracy high on her agenda   Kalkidan Yibeltal Federica Mogherini, the European Union Commission’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, made her first visit to Ethiopia and the African Union Commission (AUC) yesterday.   Federica Mogherini, who is also the Vice President of the EU, visited Ethiopia as part of…

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  • Africa

    Breaking – Ethiopia drops infamous terrorism charges against all bloggers

    Mahelt Fasil   Nearly a year and half since they were first arrested charges of terrorism against the five remaining members of Zone9 bloggers were dropped this morning. A federal court in Addis Abeba freed Journalists Tesfalem Wadyes Asmamaw Hailegiorgis and Edom Kassaye as well as members of the blogging collective Zelalem Kibret and Mahlet Fantahun on July 8th.  …

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  • Africa

    Dream turns sour for Ethiopian migrants jailed in Malawi

    The dream of a new life in SA has turned into a nightmare for Ethiopian migrants held in Malawian jails despite having served their sentences “This prison is hell on earth. We are in prison despite paying the fine,” a tearful 15-year-old Eyasu Tadiya told Agence France-Presse inside Dedza prison, 85 kilometres south of Lilongwe, the administrative capital. Eyasu, looking…

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  • Africa

    Germany contributes one million Euros to help refugees in Ethiopia

    The Government of the Federal Republic of Germany committed 1,000,000 Euros until the end of 2015 to support the efforts of the World Food Program (WFP) in Ethiopia. The grant is given to provide emergency food assistance for Eritrean, Sudanese, South Sudanese, and Somali refugees in the country. With this grant WFP will provide food for refugees, targeted supplementary feeding…

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