Ethiopia News

Ethiopian Supreme Court reinstated fines on Monday against four newspaper publishing companies over their coverage of the disputed 2005 national election.

An opposition candidate for Ethiopia 's Parliament was stabbed to death early Tuesday in what opposition leaders said was part of a widening campaign of repression ahead of May elections.

Interior Minister Eli Yishai pledged Monday to bring the aliya of the Falash Mura to its final phase within a year, and said that after Pessah ministry representatives would head to Ethiopia to check the eligibility of some 8700 descendants of Ethiopian Jews waiting to immigrate.

Damon Albarn and Reverend and the Makers frontman Jon McClure have been working with a group of musicians in Ethiopia on a new musical project.

The stabbing death of an opposition candidate in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region is raising new calls for an inquiry and an easing of 2009 repressive legislation that critics say is restraining political activity in the weeks leading up to this year's 23 May general elections.

A visitor lookd at pictures of victims of Ethiopia's "Red Terror" campaign during the inauguration of the Red Terror Martyrs' Museum in Addis Ababa.

BEIRUT: Ten victims of the Ethiopian Airlines plane crash that occurred last month were put to their final resting places over the weekend.

International shortwave radio monitors have confirmed that VOA broadcasts in the Amharic language are being jammed.

Montek Singh Ahluwalia, deputy chairman of India's Planning Commission, is among the 19 members of the high-level advisory group set up by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon seeking to mobilise financing to help developing countries combat climate change.

Ethiopia's main opposition bloc is reconsidering whether to contest the May parliamentary elections following brutal attacks on two candidates, one of them fatal.

" An opposition group said on Wednesday that his parliamentary candidate was stabbed to death on Tuesday by suspected government agents.

Rock star Bob Geldof has defended his charity, Live Aid, against claims that most of the money raised at rock concerts was used to buy weapons for rebel militants.

Millions of dollars of international aid for victims of the mid-1980s famine in Ethiopia was diverted to rebels to buy weapons in the African country, a BBC investigation reported Wednesday.

An Ethiopian opposition politician and parliament ary aspirant was stabbed to death Tuesday and a second one seriously wounded when attackers raided their respective homes in Makalle and Axum in Tigray, 783 km north of Addis Ababa, party officials said.

Six men stabbed to death an Ethiopian opposition election candidate on Tuesday and the murder may have been provoked by his anti-government campaign, the main opposition coalition said.

Ethiopian Airlines chief Girma Wake on Wednesday accused Lebanese authorities of making "misleading" comments on the cause of a crash that killed 90 people off Beirut last month.

February 26, 2010 -- Greek Orthodox Church Patriarch, his beatitude Tewdros II expressed appreciation to religious tolerance in Ethiopia.

Four bidders have offered tenders for the acquisition of the 47-year old Ethiopia Hotel with a wide margin of nearly 40 million Br between the largest and smallest offers.

Madagascar President Andy Rajoelina has called a meeting next week with leading opposition groups to try to resolve a year-long political crisis before the African Union imposes sanctions.

The sweet, strong and aromatic smell of coffee ushers you to the Kuriftu Resort and Spa, Debrezeit where the waiter's warm and inviting smiles waits.