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By John Vidal We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's larg

By Howard LesserThe stabbing death of an opposition candidate in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region is raising new calls for an inquiry and an easing of 2009 repressive legis

By Andrew Whitehead A quarter of a century ago, the BBC's Michael Buerk achieved something very rare - he not only reported the world, but changed it a little bit. His vivid

By Jason McLure (Bloomberg) -- An Ethiopian opposition candidate was stabbed to death by six unidentified men in an attack described by government opponents as part of an

By Oromsis AdulaGadaa.com has a brilliant piece on Medrek's stance on a wide range of issues in the upcoming election. Using Gadaa.com's summary of the first round of televise

By Peter Heinlein, Addis AbabaThe Green Revolution that ended food shortages in parts of the world decades ago may be coming to East Africa, bringing the promise of bountiful

Ahead of national elections scheduled for May 2010, the ruling Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) further curtailed the limited freedom of the count

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's main opposition coalition said on Wednesday that some of its candidates were being prevented at gunpoint from regist

By Jason McLure Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia’s main opposition grouping disputed a government claim that political opponents of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s rulin

Dr. Merera Gudina, a leading opposition figure and chairman of Medrek and Oromo People's Congress, discusses the upcoming Ethiopian Election scheduled for May 22, 2010. He exp

World Rank: 136            Regional Rank: 28 of 46Ten Economic Freedoms of Ethiopia 66.3  Business Freedom

By Barry Malone ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - An Ethiopian journalist has been jailed for one year for writing a newspaper article disagreeing with the country's prime minister, a

By Qeerransoo Biyyaa, Embracing 11 official languages is one of the major breakthroughs that South Africa has achieved after the fall of apartheid and its transition to democ

WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next US ambassador to Ethiopia pledged on Tuesday to press the government in Addis Ababa to improve human righ

Statement of Donald E. BoothU.S. Ambassador-designate to EthiopiaBefore the Senate Committee on Foreign RelationsFebruary 2, 2009Mr. Chairman and distinguished Members of the

As swathes of their country’s land is leased, cleared and prepared for food production by foreign companies, Ethiopians are divided over whether this constitutes ‘agro-col

By Africa Action and FPIF StaffEthiopia Meles Zenawi has been in power as prime minister of Ethiopia since August 23, 1995. He has forged very strong military ties to the Uni

Habte Banti Nagassa, an Oromo, is said to be the pilot of the Ethiopian Airliner that went down immediately after take off from Beirut International Airport. Habte is also ide

Ethiopia is on a deteriorating human rights trajectory as parliamentary elections approach in 2010. These will be the first national elections since 2005, when post-election p

FromThe Economist print edition. Meles Zenawi will probably win the election. But that may not bring calm.WORRIES about Ethiopia’s election, due in May, are growing. Aid-gi