Wed Aug 3, 2011 11:53am EDT * Eleven firms licensed in 31 blocks * Chinese firm to spend $4 bln By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA, Aug 3 (Reuters) – Ethiopia, which has seen a surge in requests for exploration rights, hopes to produce gas from its huge and under-developed reserves in its Somali Region in [...]
BY NEW BUSINESS ETHIOPIA REPORTER The Japanese government provided the first Japanese Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (GGP) in the Japanese fiscal year 2011 to a hospital in Ethiopia. The Felege Hiwot Referral Hospital in Bahir Dar was invited as the project partner to attend the signing ceremony on August 3, 2011 at [...]
BEIJING, Aug. 4 (Xinhuanet) — According to the World Food Program, the southern and central areas of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia have been the hardest hit, with a total of 12.4 million people affected. On Wednesday, the United Nations declared three additional regions in Somalia as famine zones. The Horn of Africa is experiencing one [...]
The following report was originally posted on OromoAffairs.blogspot.com Mr. Dirribi Demissie has put down certain points he sees as milestones in the course of his life to this day. The aim of putting down the points to the attention of readers is not an attempt of glorifying the life of an ordinary Oromo national. It [...]
(AFP) – 20 hours ago KHARTOUM — A landmine on Tuesday killed four Ethiopian UN peacekeepers and badly wounded seven others on patrol in the disputed Sudanese territory of Abyei, the UN said, just days after they were deployed. Most of the 4,200 Ethiopian troops in Abyei have been in the territory on the border [...]
Loading… Comments ( Farah Abdi Warsameh / Associated Press ) – Somalis from the south of the country carry their belongings as they arrive in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday, Aug. 3, 2011. The United Nations says famine will probably spread to all of southern Somalia within a month and force tens of thousands more people to [...]
Addis Ababa, August 1 (WIC) – Ethiopia finalizes feasibility study and detailed design work for a World Bank funded 100,000 hectares of irrigation project in its Nile Basin, a Water and Energy Minister official said. The World Bank approved a loan of 100 million USD in 2008 to help the country increase agricultural productivity, [...]
Botswana coach Stanley Tshosane continued his preparations for the 2012 Africa Cup of Nations when beating Swaziland 2-0 in a friendly on Sunday Botswana coach Stanley Tshosane has yet to be offered a new contract despite leading the Zebras to a maiden Africa Cup of Nations finals. Botswana’s most successful coach is currently preparing for [...]
About a week ago, UNESCO called for the suspension of the Gibe III Dam over the Omo River in Ethiopia until the negative impacts of the Dam on Kenya’s Lake Turkana National Parks, a Natural site registered in the UNESCO’s World Heritage List, have been clearly determined. Along the Omo River, there’s also Ethiopia’s Lower [...]
We have all seen reports of tens of thousands of Somalis in desperate search of food and water. Somalia‘s foreign minister, Mohamed Ibrahim, has warned that more than 3.5 million people may starve to death and the UN estimates that more than 1.5 million Somalis are internally displaced by hunger – most of them in [...]
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Gryphon Minerals (GRY) Broker Calls Credit Suisse – BUY Deutsche – BUY RBC – BUY RBS Morgans – BUY Argonaut – BUY Eagle Research – BUY Alpha Broking – BUY Chart: Share price over the year to 04/08/2011 versus ASX200 (XJO) Gryphon Minerals (GRY), a West African focussed Gold exploration company with projects [...]
Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
Global Fund against HIV-AIDS – The Global Fund for the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria will resume activities in Mauritania after ‘a successful negotiation between the government and its partners,’ according to a statement from the Mauritanian ministry of Health. The resumption of funding will enable the country receive substantial resources estimated at about [...]
Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
2011-08-01 Mauritanian football fans can look forward to new leadership in the sport as the country looks to rebuild its programme. By Mohamed Foily Samba Vall for Magharebia in Nouakchott – 01/08/11 [Mohamed Foily] For the first time in its history, Mauritania’s football federation held a competitive election for new leadership. The Mauritanian Football Federation [...]
Zimbabwe’s image problem: Facebook caning linked to human rights abuse
Zimbabwe clearly has an image problem. When we posted a note on Monday about the caning sentence for a Chiredzi boy who ‘slandered’ a local woman on Facebook, we sincerely thought two cane strokes was not a big deal. Really. For us the important thing was that someone had managed to get some kind of [...]
Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
I think with playing sport at an elite level comes a responsibility Pundits have touted him as a future Wallabies captain, which would be welcomed by Australian rugby fans who have delighted in his unfulfilled Springboks dream MELBOURNE — A child of evicted Zimbabwean farmers, David Pocock arrived in Australia with a few suitcases and [...]
Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
Mugabe, who turns 88 on Tuesday, has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, but has shared power with Tsvangirai’s rival Movement for Democratic Change since 2009 under a coalition after violent and disputed elections. Despite the agreement, Mugabe and Tsvangirai have continued to fight over government posts and policy, including Mugabe’s drive to [...]