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March. 31 2009

First Lady Makes it to EFFORT's Helm
Ethiopian first lady weizero Azeb Mesfhin Azeb Mesfin, the wife of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, has been appointed as deputy head of the Endowment Fund for the Rehabilitation of Tigray, also known as EFFORT. She will serve under Abadi Zemu, the chief executive officer (CEO) of EFFORT, replacing Sebhat Nega, the most senior leader of the TPLF. The conglomerate has over 25 companies that it controls in the industry, finance, trade, mining, construction, transport and agricultural sectors. Click here to comment on this article

Ethiopia, Sudan Regional officials discuss on common interest
Officials from the Northern Tigray region’s western zone have hold meeting with their counterpart from the neighboring Sudan’s Gedarif region on issues of mutual concern.

Time to Talk of CIA Regime Change in Sudan?
“I’m a great believer in covert action,” says a veteran CIA station chief who retired a few years ago (and never lets me use his name). “By that I don’t mean sending military people in there and killing everybody. Something more subtle . . . Doing things that weaken the dictatorship’s control of the media is good.”

UN says Eritrea disobeying in 'tense' border feud
Eritrea shuns U.N. Security Council demands from two months ago that it should pull back from the Djibouti border and rejects nearly all efforts at diplomacy or mediation, U.N. officials reported Monday.

EU releases EUR 314m for farmers in poor countries
Ethiopia is slated to get the biggest share of the EU funds with 45.4 million euros budgeted for the country, followed by the Democratic Republic of Congo with 40.6 million euros and the Palestinian Territories with 39.7 million euros.

I'm the king of kings: Gaddafi storms out of Arab summit and labels Saudi king 'a British product'
The Libyan leader was at an Arab gathering in Qatar yesterday when he seized the microphone to furiously denounce the Saudi king as a 'liar'. 'I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam (leader) of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level,' he said.

March. 30 2009

U.S. Alternate Representative to the U.N. condemns al-Shabaab and Eritrea
Ethiopian Coffee Exporters Awaiting Devaluation, Exchange Says

March. 29 2009

World Class: Liya Kebede weaves her way into retail with Ethiopian wear and a J.Crew deal Supermodel Liya Kebede
Supermodel Liya Kebede was born and brought up in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and started catwalking there. "It was so much fun - the girls brought their own shoes, and we helped each other with makeup, then par-tied together afterwards," she recalls. She was even the first black model to land a cosmetics deal with Estee Lauder, netting $3 million to be part of the clan that includes Liz Hurley and Gwyneth Paltrow (and she didn't even have to fake an English accent to do it).

Ethiopia Demands UK Returns Stolen Treasures

March. 28 2009

Lawless Somalia draws influx of foreign fighters
Ethiopia’s Tigray region awards hundreds of farmers
Gebremariam wins world cross for Ethiopia
Swedish Papers Demand Release Of Reporter Jailed In Eritrea
Eritrea Situation Escalates Humanitarian Crisis

March. 27 2009

USAID Injects $12m into Rural Micro Finance
GrammyNominated R&B Singer Wayna Arrested At Houston Airport
Sudan’s Bashir travels to Libya instead of Ethiopia
Ethiopian Exchange Student Makes Big Impact at Signal Mountain
Ethiopian National Carrier To Resume Flights To Somaliland

March. 26 2009

P.M. Meles Zenawi optimistic about Ethiopian flower industry
Ethiopian flower producers and exporters have used their exhibition, which opened Wednesday, to call on Ethiopian, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, to urge state owned development bank to reschedule installments of their due balance as well as a cutback on freight tariffs. This is the very first time exhibitors have met with the Prime Minister, who opened the second international exhibition organized by the growers and exporters association of Ethiopia.
US jets 'bombed convoy in Sudan'
Sudan's Bashir heads to Ethiopia, defying ICC
Bombing injures Somali interior minister