When you write a column called Rural Revival, it's a rare opportunity to be able to write it occasionally from the perspective of another country.

A The Ethiopian government which has always welcomed Somaliland delegations including ministers of the government has withdrawn the red carpet treatment for Somaliland's erstwhile minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr.

A subject normally covered in Rolling Stone Argentina . The world of raggae music is preparing to celebrate the memory of the legendary raggae singer Bob Marley on what would be his 67th birthday on Monday.

With this new service, Dammam will be connected to dozens of cities in Africa via Ethiopian's hub at Addis Ababa, with convenient connections available to and from cities such as Johannesburg, Nairobi, Lagos, Accra, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe and Dakar, he said.

Hilton Worldwide Middle East & Africa is set to further increase its presence across Africa and Indian Ocean with the announcement of the company's most senior appointment for the continent.

Which other friend of Africa would be willing to fund, design, build and maintain a new $200 million AU headquarters in the middle of a global financial crisis? In her article published in Pambazuka News on 26 January 2012 and titled 'Tragedy of the new AU headquarters', Chika Ezeanya reckons that it is an insult to the African Union and to every ... (more)

Negotiations between Juba and Khartoum on the oil issue, under the auspices of the African Union's High-Level Implementation Panel , continued on the sidelines of the recently ended African Union meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Discussions on the draft Diaspora Policy were held with Ethiopians and foreign nationals of Ethiopian origins in 22 foreign cities, Federal and Regional Joint Forum for Diaspora Coordination has said.

In recent years, investigations and reports carried out by independent organizations have described the steadily worsening human rights picture in Ethiopia .

The root cause of the ugly internecine war of 1998 - 2000 between Ethiopia and Eritrea that claimed 100, 000 lives, numerous injuries, dislocation of innocent citizens and colossal damage to the economy should be revisited in order to predict whether more of the same would repeat.

I also can't believe I just wrote that. There is nothing more annoying than every Facebook status update that says something like, "I can't believe it has been 14 years since I married my sweet pookie poodle," and, "I can't believe Junior is 8 years old." On the former, I always find myself wondering, "Yeah, I bet it only seems like 11 1/2." On the ... (more)

President Robert Mugabe has found no support among his old allies in the African Union for his bid to hold elections this year without carrying out key reforms.

The highway southwest of Addis Ababa to Wolayto-Soddo is wide and smooth, but there is no such thing in Ethiopia as setting the cruise control and just cruising, as one would expect to do on the wide open Canadian Prairies.

David Turton There is a powerful economic argument for Gibe 3 Dam. But there are also powerful arguments for ensuring that large-scale river-basin development projects provide genuine and sustainable development opportunities for the affected people.

African Union Commission Chairman Jean Ping and Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi, newly elected African Union president, talk shortly after the closing ceremony of the 18th African Union summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 31, 2012.

Hundreds of moyale locals residing in Nairobi Thursday poured on the streets to protest the continued clashes in the area.

Addis Ababa, February 2 - The Development Bank of Ethiopia announced selling more than the projected amount of Grand Renaissance Dam bonds in the last two quarters, according to the bank's six month report.A The bank has estimated selling 600 million birr worth of bonds for the Grand Renaissance Dam in the last six months but actual sales exceeded ... (more)

The Gambia and Ethiopia on Tuesday signed two agreements in Addis Ababa aimed at strengthening their bilateral relations, with a trade and investment agreement being one of the accords signed.

There will be a premiere at OSU of "Point Four" put on by the division of international studies at 7 tonight in the Wes Watkins Center Auditorium.

When Dr. Rick Hodes showed his audience a picture of an Ethiopian boy with a facial tumor so huge it threatened to suffocate him, and then showed the boy restored to smiling normality, it was very clear what motivates him.

Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye talks to his lawer Abebe Balcha at an Ethiopian courtroom, on November 1, 2011, in Addis Ababa.

I was disturbed by a young woman cry this evening in our chat room. She and about 400 of them have been living in Norway and were told that they will be deported to Ethiopia soon.

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has condemned the continent-wide Africa Union for recognising Libya's National Transitional Council at a recent summit, state radio reported on Wednesday.

Addis Ababa, February 1 - Ethiopian Ambassador to India, Gennet Zewide, on Tuesday sought investments in the areas of textiles, leather, healthcare, milk and dairy products, tourism and chemicals to catch up with fastest growing countries such as India and China.

Addis Ababa, January 31 - Some 17, 000 Sudanese refugees returned recently to their homeland in the Blue Nile, announced Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister Hailemariam Desalegn on Monday.