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Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) -- China has loaned Ethiopia $349 million for the construction of a 79-kilometer expressway between the capital Addis Ababa and Adama, the Ethiopian News Agency said.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The impact of the worldwide financial crisis could include preventing Ethiopia from reaching its anti-poverty goals by 2015, a United Nations official says.
Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia plans to lease 3 million hectares (7.4 million acres) of land to foreign and domestic investors for agriculture over the next three years to increase productivity and earn foreign exchange, the government said.
A new study reported by the Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia and the University of Rochester sheds light on how the continents move, and oceans are created. In 2005, a gigantic, 35-mile-long rift broke open the desert ground in Ethiopia. At the time, some geologists believed the rift was the beginning of a new ocean as two parts of the African continent pulled apart, but the claim was ...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Madagascar's political rivals have agreed on posts within a transitional government that will hold power until next year's elections.
The Secretary-General welcomes the agreement reached by the four Malagasy leaders in Addis Ababa for the establishment of a power-sharing administration.
The answer is, Michael McCaskey, the current Chairman and CEO of the Chicago Bears in the United States National Football League. The Chicago Bears are a professional American football team based in Chicago, Illinois.
Ethiopia is reviewing a newly-passed law that could restrict imports of food aid at a time when millions of its people are suffering from severe malnutrition. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports on the unintended consequences of a regulation designed to protect Ethiopia's biodiversity.
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Madagascar's squabbling leaders on Saturday signed an agreement to form a power-sharing government after months of wrangling. Current President Andry Rajoelina and former president Marc Ravalomanana were among four leaders meeti...
Madagascar's leader has returned for a fourth day of internationally mediated power-sharing talks in Addis Ababa, after storming out and threatening to derail efforts to form a national unity government.
Madagascar's disputed leader Andry Rajoelina rejoined crisis talks on Friday after threatening to pull out of a meeting in Addis Ababa amid bickering among the country's main political foes.
The African Union on Tuesday called on Madagascar's political rivals to urgently implement a power-sharing deal reached last week aimed at ending the country's protracted political crisis.
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- A 35-mile-long rift in the desert of Ethiopia could rip open, creating a new sea in just days, scientists say.
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia will hold parliamentary elections on May 23, the Ethiopian News Agency reported, citing the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia.
ADDIS ABABA, 2 November 2009 (IRIN) - Being a university freshman is an exciting time for any young person, but many students get carried away, partying too hard and taking sexual risks.
Madagascar's main political movements have extended talks in Addis Ababa aimed at patching over bitter rivalries preventing the formation of a transitional government. The outlook is uncertain, with feuding factions seemingly unwilling to compromise.
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