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Indian Ambassador to Ethiopia Gurjit Singh said India would continue in providing continuous assistance towards the efforts Ethiopia is making to register swift development. Visiting the Jimma University on Thursday, Ambassador Singh said his country is keen to scale up its assistance to Ethiopia focusing on education, health, modern technology, agriculture, soil and water conservation and sugar ... Full story

The Ethiopian government is continuing in its effort to construct new roads and upgrade worn out dilapidated roads, says a government official. Over the past decade, the country has spent over $3.6 billion to build 101,359km Ethiopia has set aside 8 billion birr to construct new roads and upgrade dilapidated ones in 2009, a government official ... Full story

According to the State Bureau of Education, More than 930 schools were constructed in various parts of Oromia State in the last six months alone. The Bureau also said that other Afaan Oromo emersion schools are underr construction in the Addis Abeba for a capital of 100 Million Birr. In an interview with the Ethiopian News agency, Bureau ... Full story

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has fielded questions from journalists on a number of pressing foreign policy issues last Thursday, January 15, 2009. Though the occasion of the first National Climate Change Conference at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) also afforded the opportunity to clarify policy on ... Full story

A large shipment of gently-used Bibles and Christian books will be sent out soon, made up completely of donations from Christians like you. These materials are scheduled to be sent to the mostly-Muslim nation of Ethiopia. "We hope that by the end of this month, we'll have a Great Crate shipment into Ethiopia, or heading there," says Fred Palmerton of Christian Resources International. "We are ... Full story

By James Butty Washington, DC 20 January 2009 A senior Ethiopian official says his government has a responsibility to maintain law and order and would not be swayed by outside criticism. The official, Bereket Simon, an advisor to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, was responding to a letter from four influential U.S. senators to the Ethiopian prime minister. In their letter, the four senators, including Russell Feingold, chairman of ... Full story

The Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA) is contemplating to award the sophisticated Maskel Square-Bole road project comprising three bridges and two road junctions, it was learnt. The authority is posed to take the move after the first local contractor, Eniy Construction, failed to carry out the job for capacity reasons although it clinched the original contract award. The authority will in two weeks re-tender the 4.1 ... Full story

The China Road and Bridge Corporation (CRBC) is launching the installation of 350 road indicating and street naming boards, the first of their type in the country. The Addis Ababa City Road Authority (AACRA) had in late 2007 offered the over 17 million birr contract involving the production and installation of the sign boards to ... Full story

Can you begin by just summarizing what is happening in Somalia right now? How you feel about the situation in Somalia? Initially, when we announced that we would be withdrawing, and based ... Full story

HARRISONBURG - The Ethiopians Jim Engle knows have outlooks as bright as their nation's sunniest summers. "Most of the people in Ethiopia are warm and welcoming," said Engle, a professor of Old Testament studies at Eastern Mennonite Seminary. "They're humble and hardworking, too." The folks he met during his sixth trip to Ethiopia also proved to be enthusiastic students of  the Bible. Engle, 68, and his wife Peg, ... Full story