Archive for the ‘Domestic Affairs’ Category

The Efforts Ethiopia is making to ensure rights of women and children are exemplary to other African countries, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women with the African Union said. The Efforts Ethiopia is making to ensure rights of women and children are exemplary to other African countries, Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women with the African Union said. The Special Rapporteur Soyata MAIGA met and ... Full story

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority (EBA) is considering installing state-of-the-art equipment to monitor all transmissions in the country, both video and audio, from its central office. The authority has called on interested parties to take part in the bid it launched last week. According to its establishment proclamation, EBA is entitled to monitor every media in ... Full story

The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is preparing to launch the 2.4 billion birr road project that connects Ethiopia to Kenya. The Kenyan government has already launched the construction of the road from Port of Mombassa to Moyale. ERA has also launched the result of the environmental impact assessment and rehabilitation study it had conducted on the Hageremariam ... Full story

Addis Ababa City Police Commission looks set to return to the control of the city administration now led by the national ruling party, the EPRDF. The commission was transferred to the control of the Federal Police by the EPRDF in the aftermath of the disputed 2005 general election. This move came about after the Coalition ... Full story

The rather gruesome topic of female genital mutilation (FGM) came up at a dinner-party I was at last weekend, thanks to the Pamela Izevbekhai coverage lately (she's applying for asylum in Ireland on the basis that her daughters will be subjected to FGM if she returns to Nigeria, and that another daughter of hers died as ... Full story

In the first visit of an Israeli minister to Ethiopia in five years, Regional Cooperation Minister Silvan Shalom blocked an anti-Israel decision from being passed at a the Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), which met Monday in Addis Ababa. Shalom arrived in the Ethiopian capital as head of a Knesset delegation to the event, accompanied by ... Full story

By: Semeon In the past few days news started coming out that "environmentalists" were vehemently opposed to the development of hydro power plants on the Gibe river. Dear reader you may ask "What took them so long?!!". Sorry for the delay, but you see they were busy somewhere else. With the Amazon Rain ... Full story

The Ethiopian Electric and Power Corporation (EEPCo) declared that the ongoing power cuts would affect the economy to the level of one percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Last year power interruptions had caused substantial damage to the economy, estimated at over a ... Full story

Ethiopia - Meles Zenawi sits down with Channel 4 News Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi sat down with Channel 4 news for an interview. Jonathan Rugman interviewed Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister and the only representative from Africa (outside the G20) to attend the summit. Ethiopia's Prime minister said President Obama being of African heritage understands ... Full story

The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has launched a pilot for notifying post paid mobile phone subscribers of their bills through text messages. "This message is for testing purpose notifying postpaid customer's bill through SMS, your bill for Feb 2009 is Birr……Thank you. ETC," runs the first message the corporation sent on March 24. ETC has allocated ... Full story