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PRWeb via Yahoo! News - Fri Jul 17, 3:01 am ET
Ardent Energy Group (AEG) Inc, a full service biodiesel company focused on the cultivation and refining of high quality biodiesel from non-edible biological feedstock, today announced an agreement with Yetebaberut Beherawi Petroleum (YBP) of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the distribution of biodiesel in Ethiopia.
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IRIN - Thu Jul 16, 10:20 am ET
ADDIS ABABA, 16 July 2009 (IRIN) - Malnutrition rates in the Somali region of Ethiopia have reached critical levels, according to a recent assessment by the regional health bureau.
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FOX 19 Cincinnati - Sun Jul 19, 3:16 pm ET
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine is celebrating its 50th anniversary in an unusual place - Ethiopia.
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The Township Journal - Mon Jul 20, 3:08 am ET
The UPS Foundation recently donated $1,500 to an “Ethiopia Reads” project, created by Robert Quade, Centenary’s professor emeritus and founder of the College’s wrestling team. This goal was to collect and ship about 1,500 children’s books and textbooks to Ethiopia by the end of this summer. As a result of the work by Quade and Centenary’s wrestling team, which adopted this project as its cause, ...
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Lawrence Journal-World - Mon Jul 20, 1:01 am ET
With one mouse click, Ross and Michelle Merritt could have deleted away their chance to be parents. The afternoon of Sunday, May 31, the couple noticed they had an e-mail with the subject, “A baby girl for you!” They both laughed thinking it was spam. Fortunately, they opened it and saw a photo of their baby daughter for the first time.
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INO News - Mon Jul 13, 11:13 am ET
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AFP)--Ethiopia's currency, the birr, fell to its lowest ever rate Monday against the dollar, losing nearly 10% to exchange at 12.445.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour 10 minutes ago
Madagascar's army-backed leader Andry Rajoelina on Monday withdrew his government from a meeting aimed at ending the country's political crisis following failed bomb attacks in the capital.
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Bloomberg - Mon Jul 20, 10:23 am ET
July 20 (Bloomberg) -- Madagascar ’s army blamed a group of unidentified men linked to former President Marc Ravalomanana for a series of bomb attacks in the capital, Antananarivo, over the past two days and stepped up security in the city.
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The Pitt News - Mon Jul 20, 6:11 am ET
Canadian Immigration Minister Judy Sgro, who is already embroiled in a scandal about favors given to a Romanian stripper, resigned last Friday after an Indian pizza shop owner said she had gone back on a promise to help him avoid deportation, in exchange for free pizza.
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NPR - Sun Jul 19, 8:54 am ET
Birdwatching might not seem the kind of hobby to attract the Indiana Jones type, but Gerry Nicholls is what you might call an extreme bird watcher. This year he and his friends set out on an international chase for a creature that has never been officially sighted.
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Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Sun Jul 19, 2:20 am ET
As day broke over the Gallatin Valley, it was possible to imagine a new dawn rising 8,000 miles away.
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The Charlotte Observer - Sun Jul 19, 4:54 pm ET
Mushin and Christa Muhammad have a full house of six children after adopting two from Ethiopia.
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UPI - 48 minutes ago
ROME, July 20 (UPI) -- Good cereal harvests and a sharp decline in international grain prices have not had any impact on domestic food prices in developing countries, which remain very high and are a major source of hardship for millions, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said Monday.
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Louisville Courier-Journal - Mon Jul 20, 4:41 am ET
An Indianapolis man drowned while fishing with friends near Cataract Falls. Authorities were called to the Cataract Falls State Recreation Area about 45 miles southwest of Indianapolis about 9:30 p.m. Friday. The man's friends told officers he was attempting to wade across the creek to fish from the opposite bank.
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Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Thu Jul 16, 10:13 am ET
DUBLIN----Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Ethiopia - Telecoms Market Overview, Statistics & Forecasts" report to their offering.