20110727 Reuters HAMBURG (Reuters) - A United Nations aid agency has purchased about 90,000 tonnes of wheat for donation to Ethiopia, European traders said on Wednesday.
20110717 Reuters GENEVA (Reuters) - Five million people are at risk of cholera in drought-hit Ethiopia, where acute watery diarrhoea has broken out in crowded, unsanitary conditions, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
20110703 Reuters KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Gunmen shot dead an Ethiopian peacekeeper and injured one of his comrades in Sudan's Darfur region on Thursday, his joint U.N/African Union mission said on Saturday.
20110630 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia believes two journalists it detained last week planned to sabotage the country's power and phone lines and recruit others to work with arch-foe Eritrea to destabilise it, a police chief said on Wednesday.
20110601 Reuters ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Wednesday it had commuted the death sentences of 23 of former dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam's henchmen convicted of genocide in 2008, reducing the penalties to life imprisonment after an appeal.
Addis Ababa — The Ethiopian government has started receiving food and non-food aid for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people in the country's southern and south-eastern lowlands after an appeal in April, Agriculture Minister Mitiku Kassa told IRIN.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - A bomb exploded near a court in the west of Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Thursday, wounding two people, police officials said.
20110324 Reuters ASENDABO, Ethiopia (Reuters) - The hollow chants of "Allahu Akbar!" reverberating from a distance seemed innocuous at first for Abera Gutema, who ventured home quietly from his shop just a short distance away.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia warned on Saturday it would take "all measures necessary" against Eritrea, in a rare threat of direct action against a neighbour it routinely accuses of supporting rebel groups.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi blamed a little-known local Muslim group of preaching religious intolerance in an area where Christian churches were burnt last week, killing one person.
20110225 Xinhua ADDIS ABABA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi held discussions with Russian envoy to Sudan Mikhail Margelov here Thursday on regional issues.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia and the United Nations said on Monday 2.8 millions Ethiopians will need emergency food aid in 2011, and appealed for $227 million to fund programmes for the first six months.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - When Meles Zenawi's rebels closed in on Addis Ababa in the early months of 1991, their biggest threat did not come from Mengistu Haile Mariam's army but from a potential breakup of Ethiopia.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi told top visiting American officials before elections in May this year that he would “crush… with our full force” opposition leaders who “violated the laws of Ethiopia,” according to a diplomatic cable published by WikiLeaks.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group said on Tuesday it had killed 267 soldiers since the beginning of October, in its first such claim since the government signed a peace deal with one its factions last month.
Ethiopian authorities are accused of using development aid as a political tool. Human rights group said farmers who do not support Ethiopian's ruling party led by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi are rejected loans, fertilisers and seeds.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Malaysian state oil company Petronas has asked Ethiopia to approve an agreed deal to sell all its oil and gas concessions in the country to a locally owned firm, a senior government official said on Monday.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian rebel group on Monday warned foreign oil and gas firms to stay out of the country and rejected government claims that the disputed Ogaden region was now safe for exploration companies.
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - More than a quarter of a million Ethiopians are risk from severe flooding next month when heavy rain is expected in the country, according to government estimates issued by the United Nations on Monday.
