Xinhua(Djibouti City) – Chinese Premier Li Keqiang met with Djibouti’s Prime Minister Abdoulkader Kamil Mohamed at the closing ceremony of the second Summer Youth Olympic…
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…
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…
AFP-(Bujumbura) Fishermen in Burundi have found several corpses with limbs bound or stuffed in sacks, floating in a lake bordering Rwanda, government officials said on…
By Mary Sophia
Gulfbusiness-Dubai-based airline flydubai has announced that it will begin services to three new destinations in East Africa from September.
The budget airline,…
By Tom Odula Jason Straziuso
The Associated Press (NAIROBI) —Corrupt Kenyan wildlife rangers are killing poachers to cover up the officers’ collusion with the criminals…
Finextra- BPC Banking Technologies, the leading provider of Open System payment solutions, has announced that EthSwitch has chosen SmartVista to power its national switching operations…
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…
Red Pepper (Kampala) – Uganda is opening up screening centers at its borders with the Democratic Republic of Congo and Kenya to ensure that Ebola…
The irrigation ministers of Ethiopia, Egypt and Sudan resumed their discussions over the contentious Grand Ethiopia Reniassance Dam (GERD) in Khartoum on Monday after an…
By Martin Mwita
The Star (Mombasa) – THE recently launched inbound travel insurance has been embraced by foreign tourists and stakeholders in the industry.
According…
(Malawi Nyasa Times) – Traditional leaders in Malawi’s boarder district of Karonga are appealing to government authorities to devise safety measures that would protect their…
By Meredith Maulsby
While IUDs have become a source of controversy and subject to new restrictions in the U.S., the government of Ethiopia is actively…
By William Davison
Blomberg (Addis Ababa) – Ethiopia’s arabica coffee export earnings are forecast to climb 25 percent to about $900 million in 2014-15 because…
By HENRY KIBIRA AND CALVIN ONSARIGO
The Star (Nairobi) – A patient died yesterday at the Coast General Hospital even as the doctors’ union told…
The Star (Addis Ababa) – Ethiopia has overtaken Kenya to become the largest refugee-hosting country in Africa, the UN refugee agency announced on Tuesday.
Speaking…
The Reporter (Addis Ababa) – In a bid to curb the recurrent power cuts, the Ethiopian Electric Services has installed 248 transformers in Addis Ababa…
CAPITAL FM (NAIROBI) – The Ministry of Health has, on Saturday evening, announced that it will not allow passengers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea…
The Central Bank of Kenya has revealed that mobile money customers made transactions worth about KES 1.1 trillion between January and July this year.
This…
The east African region has been set on its toes following the revelation of an outbreak of Ebola infections in west Africa this March.
This…
IRIN (Addis Ababa) After decades battling high maternal death rates – at least a third of which were due to botched abortions – Ethiopia took…
PRESS RELEASE
ATLANTA (August 4, 2014) – A U.S.-based blogger who operates a popular Ethiopian news and opinion website has filed a $120 million counter…
By William Davison | Bloomberg News
A British court’s decision to allow a judicial review of aid given to Ethiopia is based on “fabrications” about…
Four international petroleum companies have presented proposals to the Ugandan government for the development of the country’s first oil refinery in Buseruka Sub-county, Hoima district,…