Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. It was the first time an Israeli president has marked the Jewish-Ethiopian holiday.

(Ethiopian News, Music, Video) - Maybe it is time for the rest of the world to follow Canada's lead and pull out of Afghanistan. Then we can all invade some place equally needy like Eritrea. It only makes economic sense.

in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova

(Ethiopian Music, News, Video) - The impact of the worldwide financial crisis could include preventing Ethiopia from reaching its anti-poverty goals by 2015, a United Nations official says. U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Thursday the international economic downturn may leave Ethiopia unable to successfully embrace the Millennium Development Goals, a U.N. release reported.

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina attends a meeting with ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (not in the picture) in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova (Reuters/Irada Humbatova)

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina attends a meeting with ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (not in the picture) in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova

What's Your Reaction? CBS Evening News recently profiled a TOMS shoe drop in Southern Ethiopia, where TOMS Shoes Founder and Chief Shoe Giver Blake Mycoskie spoke about his desire to stamp out podoconiosis , a debilitating foot disease that is caused by walking barefoot in silica-heavy volcanic soil.

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.

በቅርቡ በኢትዮጽያ የምርጫ ህግ ላይ የተስማሙት የገዥዉ የኢሃዲግ ፓርቲ እና አራት ተቃዋሚ የፖለቲካ ማህበራት በስምምነቱ ዝርዝር ጉዳይ ላይ ይነጋገራሉ ተብሎ እየተጠበቀ ነበር።

የዛሬ ሃያ-አመት በርሊን ላይ የሆነዉ-ከመሆኑ በፊት ይሆናል ብሎ ማሰብ በርግጥ ሲበዛ ከባድ ነበር።ሆነ

Life among the tribes in the Omo River Basin revolves around cattle, gunplay and getting the girl, writes Stanely Stewart

Harvest Church's African journey began two years ago at a leadership summit.

Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, Africa's meeting place, is to host the fourth annual African Economic Conference from November 11 to 13, it was learned on Thursday. Close to 400 policy makers, development experts and economists will attend the annual African economic gathering, whose theme is "Fostering Development in an Era of Financial crisis." Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi will give ...

In Ethiopia, the ruling Ethiopia People's Revolutionary Democratic Front says it's unaware that hundreds of opposition members have allegedly been jailed ahead of next year's election.

Ethiopian Regional Affairs minister, Dr Mariam on the other hand wondered why the pastoralists continue to fight instead of focusing on problems like drought and poverty that bedevil them.

የአዉሮጳ ሕብረት አባል ሐገራትን በአንድ ፕሬዝዳትና በአንድ ዉጪ ጉዳይ ሚንስትር እንዲመሩ የሚያደርገዉ ደንብ በሃያ-ሰባቱም አባል ሐገራት ፀድቋል

Lava flows from the 2005 Mando Hararo eruption in Ethiopia. Alright, I had been attempting to ignore this story because it was, well, a little uninteresting at first, but it apparently has legs so I will tackle it. Slashdot has a post proclaiming : 'Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two, creating a new ocean, say experts. This is due to a recent geological crack which has ...

(Ethiopian Music, News) - As an Ethiopian nothing drives me more bonkers than waking up every morning, just to learn that something tragic, or depressing had happened in Ethiopia (either on the political arena, or the economical-and-business front). In my entire existence, I have never felt any less of an Ethiopian through all this mayhem that Ethiopia seems to find itself in, time and again. In fact, I believe, Ethiopians have an undying patriotism about them. Patriotism oozes through our blood stream. We fight, and fight, and fight for one common goal - the betterment of Ethiopia.

As you all know, we have what we call - the Ignorant Ethiopian Diaspora. If you haven't already felt like you have been attacked or disrespected, congrats, as you are not in that category. You are the average Ethiopian who wakes up every day, goes to work, support the family, and hope and pray for the best in Ethiopia.

Echoing the Ethiopian government's recent call for food aid, British diplomat, Paddy Ashdown, has requested the international community's urgent assistance in preventing a looming humanitarian crisis. Reuters reports that 160,000 tons of food are required if the devastating effects of poor rainfall are to be avoided. According to the Economist magazine, this year has seen the worst drought in East Africa since possibly 1991. Production of Kenya's staple crop, maize, is expected to fall by a third, with subsistence farmers suffering the most. In several parts of the country, villagers are already dependent on monthly government rations of maize-meal and cooking oil. Somalia, faced with attrition from an escalating civil war, is now also considering the daunting prospect of supplying emergency food supplies to about 3.6 million hungry people. Yet, it is Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous nation, that is most susceptible to climate change, and, confronting the specter of famine, will have to ask itself why it is once again in this perilous situation. Paddy Ashdown, speaking to Reuters about the possibility of 6.2 million Ethiopians starving to death, said, "We can prevent this situation getting to much worse proportions."
Although the government's appeal for aid coincides with the 25th anniversary of the 1984 famine, a tragedy that resulted in the deaths of over 1million Ethiopians, Ashdown claims such a doomsday scenario is less likely in the twenty-first century. "A number of factors are not in place that were in place then. There was a civil war, we didn't have the institutions we have now to deal with problems, and we reacted late." Although agriculture remains the mainstay of Ethiopia's economy, and most farmers continue to employ outmoded practices, the country is better prepared to avert famine than it was 25 years ago. And, thanks to the well-publicized Band Aid and USA for Africa campaigns in the 1980s, the world is much more aware. According to the U.S. State Department, agriculture is responsible for more than 80 percent of Ethiopia's exports and provides jobs for 85 percent of its population. Coffee production is the country's largest source of foreign reserves, and, unsurprisingly, is closely monitored by the government. Other important agricultural exports include animal skins, pulses, and "khat", a 6-12 foot flowering shrub whose leaves are chewed for their mind-altering effects.

A disabled boy walks past a mural showing Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara (L), Jamaican singer Bob Marley (C) and Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa in 2007. In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car. (AFP)

A disabled boy walks past a mural showing Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara (L), Jamaican singer Bob Marley (C) and Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa in 2007. In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car. (AFP)

In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.

A disabled boy walks past a mural showing Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara (L), Jamaican singer Bob Marley (C) and Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa in 2007. In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)

የጀርመን መራሂተ መንግስት አንጌላ ሜርክል ትናንት ለሁለቱ የዩኤስ አሜሪካ ምክር ቤቶች እንደራሴዎች ዲስኩር አሰሙ።

በለንደን የሚኖሩ ኢትዮጵያውያን የሀገር ሉዓላዊነትና የዜጎች ነጻነት እንዲከበር እና

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 ...

In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.

A disabled boy walks past a mural showing Argentinian revolutionary Che Guevara (left), Jamaican singer Bob Marley (centre) and Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam in Addis Ababa in 2007. In the streets of the Ethiopian capital hundreds of disabled people beg, some from makeshift wheelchairs, the less fortunate dragging themselves on their hands from car to car.(AFP/File/Jose Cendon)

Camels carry salt in the Ethiopia's Afar Region in 2007. Volcanic activity may split the African continent in two owing to a recent geological crack in northeastern Ethiopia, researchers said on Tuesday. Photo:Jose Cendon/AFP

Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia will hold parliamentary elections on May 23, the Ethiopian News Agency reported, citing the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia.

(Ethiopian Music, News) - Blame famine on trade restrictions, not on climate change or a lack of Western aid.

Today is World Food Day and, once again, millions of people in East Africa are starving. Some have sought to turn this tragedy into opportunity. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blames Western-induced climate change, and demands that rich countries cut greenhouse gas emissions and provide more aid. These views are echoed by the World Bank, Oxfam, Christian Aid and that bellwether of bad ideas, Gordon Brown. But such top-down solutions are doomed to failure. If Africans are to to weather their existing and future climates, the solutions must come from the bottom up.

Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina attends a meeting with ousted president Marc Ravalomanana (not in the picture) in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. The African Union's top diplomat Jean Ping on Tuesday urged Madagascar's feuding leaders to seal a power-sharing deal at talks in Ethiopia and end a months-long political crisis. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova (ETHIOPIA POLITICS)

Madagascar's ousted president Marc Ravalomanana attends a meeting with Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina (not in the picture) in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, November 3, 2009. The African Union's top diplomat Jean Ping on Tuesday urged Madagascar's feuding leaders to seal a power-sharing deal during talks in Ethiopia and end the political crisis which has been ongoing for months. REUTERS/Irada Humbatova (ETHIOPIA POLITICS)

17ኛው ዓለም አቀፍ የኢትዮጵያ ጥናት ጉባዔ፣ ትናንት አዲስ አበባ ውስጥ የተጀመረ ሲሆን፣

JERUSALEM (JTA) -- Ethiopian Jews celebrated the Sigd holiday with Shimon Peres at the President's Residence in Jerusalem. It was the first time an Israeli president has marked the Jewish-Ethiopian holiday.

Washington, November 3 : Scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at the bottom of the world's oceans, and the rift is indeed likely the beginning of a new sea.

When Ethiopia's opposition leaders were freed from jail in 2007, the three most prominent were hailed by fanatical supporters as leaders-in-waiting for sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous nation.

The map will replace this text. If any users do not have Flash Player 8 (or above), they'll see this message. Ethiopian opposition parties say nearly 450 of their members have been jailed to stop them running as candidates in national elections in May next year.

Two years ago, Mariana Pagliere and her video production business Figure 5 Productions took on the daunting job of motivating Ethiopians to change behavior and perceptions toward sex and HIV/AIDS as a way to combat the spread of the disease.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Ethiopia's opposition leaders were freed from jail in 2007, the three most prominent were hailed by fanatical supporters as leaders-in-waiting for sub-Saharan Africa's second most populous nation.

"Nobody has been imprisoned or killed for political activity, to my knowledge," says the Ethiopian government's head of information - but the opposition has a different story to tell.

Source: Reuters * Parties say arrests are politically motivated * One party says seven members murdered in a year * Government says it will investigate names By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, Nov 3 (Reuters) - ...

Source: Reuters Nov 3 (Reuters) - Ethiopian opposition parties say nearly 450 members have been jailed to stop them standing as candidates in national elections in May next year. The government says they are trying ...

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 controversial. Now, scientists from several countries have confirmed that the volcanic processes at work beneath the Ethiopian rift are nearly identical to those at ...

(Ethiopian News, Music) - It is, perhaps, the first time that I have ever dared to face my blank computer screen, knowing that I might end up criticizing - heavily, I might add - a person that I have come to revere.In the end, I have decided against it, and I have resorted to - for whatever it is worth - advising her.

My adulation for Dr. Eleni Gebre-Medhin is not something that has come out of a thin air. I am hardly driven by cynicism, and the politics of division. It is fruitless. The recent back and forth, on the Internet, that Dr. Eleni has chosen to engage in is simply counterproductive. It is exactly what the critics of the ECX wanted her to do, and now they have achieved their objective, in my opinion. The fact is, any meaningful endeavor is bound to face its fierce caricaturist. And what Dr. Eleni failed, and still fails, to realize is that she can't continue to serve as the mouth-piece for the ECX, defending every sideswipe against the ECX.