Archive for the ‘Domestic Affairs’ Category

Addis Abeba last week got its second map, three months after the first one was prepared by the Ethiopian Mapping Agency (EMA) in September this year. The first map is currently available on the market and is also the only one to have been prepared in ten years. The second one, prepared through the initiative of the German government''s Gesellschaft Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ) through its Urban ... Full story

In contrast, there are only about 20,000 Internet service subscribers in Ethiopia, and 0 mobile Internet (accessing the Internet on cellphones) users under a policy instituted by the dictatorial regime of Meles Zenawi that is intended to keep the people of Ethiopia in the dark. Other African nations such as South Africa strive to make information technology accessible to ever one as the following report ... Full story

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A river in Ethiopia''s highlands burst its banks after heavy rains, killing 11 people and stranding hundreds more, the state news agency said on Monday. Flooding from the Wabe Shebelle river in southeast Ethiopia has submerged more than 100 villages, regional relief boss Eremdan Haji was quoted as saying by the Ethiopian News Agency. "Inhabitants in 116 villages in an area covering ... Full story

Source: Reuters Sixty corpses of would-be refugees from Somalia and Ethiopia were found on a beach in Yemen over the weekend after smugglers forced many of them overboard, an international aid agency says. Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said the latest victims on the notoriously perilous smuggling route had came across the ... Full story