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Teddy Afro’s concert to blast Addis 12 Aug 2012 | 09:53 pm
The highly anticipated Tewodros Kassahun a.k.a. Teddy Afro’s concert is scheduled to rock the capital on Ethiopian New Year eve at the Ghion Hotel. With his recent album release ‘Tikur sew’, Teddy Afr...
Qatar team wins Ethiopia stadium deal 12 Aug 2012 | 09:49 pm
A Qatari/Australian led consortium's design for a Fifa/Olympic-standard stadium with a sunken arena has won an international architecture competition to create a national stadium and sports village in...
Major League Soccer Envoys Bring Olympic-size Excitement to Camp in Eastern Ethiopia 12 Aug 2012 | 08:36 pm
Aug. 12 is International Youth Day, and this year’s theme is “Building a Better World by Partnering with Youth.” As an intern with USAID’s Outreach Program in Ethiopia, I recently spent a week working...
Ethiopia Embarks on Sudan Power Supply Testing 11 Aug 2012 | 08:16 pm
(ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopia is making final preparations to begin permanently exporting power to neighbouring Sudan which would enable Khartoum to replace its thermal power generating units with electric...
Ethiopian Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Community Wants Rights 11 Aug 2012 | 07:49 pm
ADDIS ABABA: Halle and Salma are typical university students in Ethiopia. They love to hang out with friends, watch the Olympics and be happy. But they are separated from the rest of society as a resu...
Defar upstages Dibaba to win Olympic 5,000 gold 11 Aug 2012 | 07:46 pm
LONDON (AP) — Meseret Defar upstaged fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba to win the Olympic 5,000 meters Friday night. Defar, the 2004 Olympic champion, overtook Dibaba in the final stretch and held on t...
Kanoria Chemicals to set up $30-m denim fabric unit in Ethiopia 11 Aug 2012 | 07:43 pm
Kanoria Chemicals & Industries Ltd has decided to set up a 12-million-metre-a-year denim fabric unit in Ethiopia at a cost $30 million. The Chairman and MD, R.V. Kanoria, told Business Line that the p...
Oromia constructs over 600mln. Birr worth health facilities 10 Aug 2012 | 08:34 pm
Addis Ababa August 9/2012 Health Bureau of Oromia State said it has constructed more than 210 health institutions in various parts of the state at a cost of over 600 million Birr in 2004E.C. budget ye...
Over 800 child beggars receive an education 10 Aug 2012 | 08:05 pm
Addis Ababa (Agenzia Fides) - There are 813 children who have been educated in schools run by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul near a small cemetery in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethio...
Money to be sent to dead UAE maid's Ethiopia family 10 Aug 2012 | 05:04 am
Azeb Abebe, 24, suffered more than 80 per cent burns when a gas leak at her sponsor's home in Al Barsha resulted in an explosion. She died on August 2 after 18 days in Rashid Hospital."After defying a...
