Yegna’s Managing Director Solome Tadesse said on Tuesday that the project would continue despite the UK Department for International Development (DFID)’s decision to cut its funding for the Ethiopian girl band.
DFID has been working with Yegna for the …
An Ethiopian man has been jailed after being caught with two suitcases full of drugs, which he claimed were to be shared at a family gathering.
Agaadir Saleebaan, 44, of Leicester, was caught by officers at Edinburgh Airport after flying …
One person died, and 11 others sustained injuries after a hand grenade was thrown into a hotel located in Gondar, a city in Ethiopia’s Amhara region.
The grenade was thrown into a hotel named Entasol, Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported. …
Ethiopia earned around $872 million exclusively from foreign tourists during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism disclosed.
Ethiopia’s Minister of Culture and Tourism, Dr. Hirut Woldemariam, told the members of House of …
Ethiopian religious leaders have underscored the need to celebrate Gena (Christmas), a festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, in unity and with respect for each other.
Ethiopians celebrate Christmas every year on January 7, just like the Europeans celebrate …
Source: Bath Chronicle UK
The body of a 31-year-old man found in a rural village on the fringes of Bristol could have lain there for several days before it was discovered on Christmas Eve, police believe.
Detectives investigating the murder …
Source: Geeska Afrika
A Ugandan soldier has been arrested in connection with the kidnapping and murder of an Eritrean businessman with the intention of stealing two millon euros (Shs8 billion) from him.
Capt. Hakim Mangeni and his alleged accomplices; Mr …
Source: Independent. UK
A man has claimed he was thrown off a Delta Airlines flight for speaking to his mother in Arabic.
YouTube star and serial prankster Adam Saleh, who has more than 1.6 million subscribers on his channel, posted …
Source: Africa News
The United States Department of State has extended its travel warning for Ethiopia citing the potential for civil unrest related to sporadic and unpredictable anti-government protests that began in November 2015.
This new alert issued on Monday, …
Source: Africa News
Ethiopia has restored mobile Internet services after the service was blocked for over two months. The blockage was connected with anti-government protests that broke out largely in the Amhara and Oromia regions.
Mobile service was restored on …
Source: Fana Broadcasting Corporation
Belgium has modified its travel advice on Ethiopia from warning to caution.
Last week, Germany lifted its warning for German tourists planning to visit Ethiopia.
According to the German Foreign Ministry, cities such as Bahir …
Source: UPI
Scientists have observed signs of dominance among populations of an infamous ant species, Lepisiota canescens, in Ethiopia. The species has begun organizing into supercolonies in the ancient church forests of the East African country.
Only 20 species worldwide …
A group of tourists from the Czech Republic and Slovakia has been attacked and robbed at gunpoint in Ethiopia while traveling through the southern part of the East African country.
The stone-throwing attackers targeted a vehicle that the six tourists …
Ethiopian authorities have said that tourists are excluded from the country’s state of emergency which require foreign diplomats to seek permission before taking long trips away from Addis Ababa, the capital.
Under Ethiopia’s state of emergency, which was declared on …
Ethiopian authorities have apologized for publishing school textbooks which mistakenly assigned Ras Dashen, the highest mountain in the country, to the Tigray region instead of the Amhara region where it is located.
The Ministry of Education apologized for the mistake …
The U.S. has issued a travel alert for its citizens in Ethiopia due to a series of violent anti-government protests that has engulfed several regions of the East African country.
On Thursday, the State Department released the travel alert scheduled …
U.S. officials have issued a temporary travel ban on Gondar, an Ethiopian city in Amhara state, which has been experiencing violent protests.
The U.S. Embassy in Embassy issued the temporary travel restriction on Wednesday. The travel warning is directed at …
Uber has launched its online transport network service in Uganda following its success in other African countries.
Kampala is the 10th city in Africa where the US multinational ride-sharing app is currently operating. Uber has already launched operations in South …
Kenya’s Wildlife Service (KWS) on Friday captured a lion which attacked a 63-year-old man after straying from Nairobi’s National Park.
The lion named Cheru reportedly attacked the man on a busy street along Mombasa Road. The male lion is said …
By Olive Burrows
NAIROBI (Capital News) – International pressure is mounting on Kenya to resume flights to West Africa with the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the East African Community Civil Aviation Safety and …
By Zerihun Getachew
ADDIS ABABA (EBC)-The first Science Museum of Ethiopia, which is said to help promoting science and research in the country, has been opened Monday at the Addis Ababa Science and Technology University.
The University has established the …
NAIROBI (Xinhua) — African governments are due to meet in Nairobi from Tuesday for a regional conference on Ebola preparedness, Kenya’s health ministry said on Monday.
The Sept. 16-17 regional conference will be attended by ministers in charge of transport, …
KIGALI – The Rwandan government has commissioned the country’s first utility scale solar plant, which is also the biggest in the region.
The solar photovoltaic project is expected to increase the nation’s capacity to generate electrical power by about 7%.…
(The East African) – East African economies are feeling the pinch of inflation as their currencies continues to weaken against the dollar.
By Allan Olingo
Uganda and Rwanda managed to ensure the inflation rate remained below 5 per cent. Rwanda’s
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Ohio University paleontologists have identified a new species of titanosaurian, a member of the large-bodied sauropods that thrived during the final period of the dinosaur age, in Tanzania. Although many fossils of titanosaurians have been discovered around the globe, especially …
By Christabel Ligami and Adam Ihucha
Kenya has secured $113 million from the African Development Bank for the construction of a transit route from the Indian Ocean to Bujumbura in Burundi, heightening competition between the ports of Indian Ocean to …
Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) disclosed the Hawsewa-Abeala-Arbeti asphalt road, which it is constructing at the cost of a Billion Birr, is 93 percent over. The road is expected to be fully completed by the coming November.
According to Samson Wondimu, …
By Ivan Ngoboka
The New Times–(Kigali)-Medical tourism has for long been a preserve of a few countries such as South Africa, India, Saudi Arabia and to some extent Kenya – those countries with a long tradition of a developed health …
BERNAMA-NNN-PANA (Nairobi) – Today six Presidents are meeting in Kenya for the one-day African Union (AU) Peace and Security summit on terrorism.
The Presidents of Chad, Niger, Nigeria, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda, Burundi’s Vice President as well as the Prime …
By Joyce Namutebi & Agencies
Newvision-(Kampala) – A team of Ugandan doctors and health workers have been deployed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to provide medical support for an Ebola treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia.
The team comes with …
Xinhua (Addis Ababa) — On Monday Ethiopian Airlines will commence its flights to Madrid, Spain, which has become the 10th European destination of the airliner.
Ethiopian flights to Madrid is operated through Rome and has brought the number of the …
BY Peter Kiragu
Standard Digital-(Nairobi)-The Government has maintained that it has almost concluded most of the negotiations with Delta Airlines for them to launch direct flights between Kenya and the United States. Foreign Affairs and International Trade CS Amina Mohamed, …
By K.O. Peppeh
IDGCONNECT ( Djibouti City)- Djibouti is one of the least prominent nations in Africa today, but this relatively small country nonetheless continues to play a gigantic role in the development of the continent’s ICT capacity.
Strategically situated …
By Zerihun Getachew
Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency (Addis Ababa) – The Ethiopian Airlines announced that it has earned over 46.5 billion Birr revenue during the last budget year, between July 2013 and June 2014.
Despite many challenges, Ethiopian has …
BBC – Ethiopia, Kenya and Ghana have announced their interest in bidding to host the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations following Libya’s withdrawal as the host nation.
Libya pulled out last week because of ongoing fighting in the country that …
By Martin Mwita
The Star (Mombasa) – THE recently launched inbound travel insurance has been embraced by foreign tourists and stakeholders in the industry.
According to AIG Kenya insurance, which in partnership with the Kenya Coast Tourism Association launched the …
The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has revealed that despite some reductions from previous years, poaching remains dangerously high in Africa.
According to the report published on Friday, about …
Two almost simultaneous blasts at the Gikomba market, Nairobi, has claimed the lives of 10 people and left up to 79 injured.
Reports indicate that the first explosion came from a mutatu minibus and the other from a clothes store …
The governments of Burundi and Zambia have disclosed plans of stretching the Tanzania-Zambia railway line to Burundi in order to support growth in bilateral trade between both nations.
During an interview, Zambia’s Foreign Affairs Minister, Wylbur Simuusa, stated that deliberations …
The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, on Monday joined millions of people across the globe to mark the first ever World Wildlife Day.
Speaking at a photo exhibition organized by the Convention for International Trade in Endangered Species of …
Mr. Gabriel Malata, the principal state attorney and representative of the government of Tanzania in the ongoing trial over the construction of a super highway through the Serengeti park has vindicated the much criticized decision of the government.
According to …
