Saudi Investment by william division
Al-Amoudi has moved into agriculture with plans to export rice, bananas and processed coffee from Ethiopia. Horizon is seeking to double orange production to 50,000 tons a year by investing 432 million birr ($23 million) in Upper Awash Agro. The Tendaho sugar factory 380 kilometers northeast of Addis Ababa that’s financed with a $640 million […]
Read More →Frustrated Efforts
Over the past 14 years, the government has unsuccessfully installed pumps and built canals to try to keep Beseka at bay. Irrigation projects are increasing the flow of water into the lake through the hot springs that feed it, said Assistant Professor of Civil Engineering Megersa Olumana Dinka from Haramaya University in Ethiopia, who wrote […]
Read More →Mysterious Lake Threatens Ethiopian Sugar Ambitions
By William Davison – April 24 (Bloomberg) — A saline lake in Ethiopia that’s baffled scientists by its 15-fold growth threatens to spill into the nation’s longest river and damage plans by Africa’s biggest coffee grower to become a commodities powerhouse. Should salt waters contaminate the Awash River, they would risk Ethiopia’s oldest state-owned sugar […]
Read More →International Consortium, To Bring New Treatments for Kala-Azar Patients in East Africa, Receives Funding Boost from European Union
[Geneva, Switzerland, and Nairobi, Kenya – 23 April 2013] – Research and development (R&D) project, AfriCoLeish, is supported by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme (EU FP7) through a grant of €3 million. The project will run for three years and aims to test new treatments for kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis, or VL) and co-infection of […]
Read More →Public inquiry into the legality of sale of “Nile River Investment Bond†by the Ethiopian Government here in the United States.
We are writing on behalf of Ethiopian-Americans and other Ethiopians residing here in the United States, who have been asking us on their behalf to  inquire about the legality of the sale of bonds for the construction of “Nile River Damâ€Â in Ethiopia by the Ethiopian Government here in the united states that has been taking place for the last few years. Most of the […]
Read More →Manhunt over, bombing suspect alive and in custody
WATERTOWN FINAL SHOWDOWN Bombing suspect arrested after found hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass.. Â Location Boat Source: USA TODAY research, Pictometry Jerry Mosemak Kevin Johnson, Donna Leinwand Leger and Gary Strauss, USA TODAY11:29 p.m. EDT April 19, 2013 (Photo: Charles Krupa, Associated Press) STORY HIGHLIGHTS Police closed in suspect at about 7 p.m. […]
Read More →Ethiopia: Liberating a “Prison Nation” By Alemayehu G Mariam
Ethiopia today is a “prison of nations and nationalities with the Oromo being one of the prisonersâ€, proclaimed the recently issued Declaration of the Congress of the Oromo Democratic Front (ODF). This open-air prison is administered through a system of “bogus federalism†in which “communities exercise neither self-rule nor shared-rule but have been enduring the TPLF/EPRDF’s […]
Read More →Ethiopia: Regime tries to break morale of jailed female journalist By Sudan Tribune
Ethiopia: Regime tries to break morale of jailed female journalist By Sudan Tribune APRIL 13, 2013 5:17 PM Journalist Reeyot Alemu Addis Ababa — The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern about the safety of Reeyot Alemu, a jailed Ethiopian journalist and teacher. In a protest letter to Birhan Hailu, Ethiopia’s […]
Read More →SouthWest’s Ethiopia Blocks Have 1.56b-2.9b Bbl of Oil Potential,U.K. ‘Fairly Confident’ on Funds for Somalia Peacekeeping Force
By William Davison April 12 (Bloomberg) — U.K. Africa Minister Mark Simmonds comments in April 10. intv. * U.K. will “do all it can†to ensure funding continues at   same level for African Union peacekeeping force made up of   troops from Burundi, Djibouti, Kenya, Sierra Leone and   Uganda. * U.K. and intl partners […]
Read More →Ethiopian National Transitional Council call general assemble meeting in Washington DC
Ethiopian National Transitional Council call general assemble meeting in Washington DC APRIL 10, 2013 10:18 PM July-Conference-PressRelease-English Ethiopian National Transitional Council In an effort to highlight our “joint struggle for shared victoryâ€, all individual Ethiopians and Democratic Organizations residing in different countries of the world are invited to attend the all inclusive international public meeting […]
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