July 2008

• Agency awards best achievements in Science and Technology
• Oil Price, inflation critical challenges: Minister
• Independent media professionals deplore Ethiopia's new press law
• Spain donates $5 mln to WFP's activities in Ethiopia last six months
• Ethiopia unlikely to meet health sector MDGs
  TELEMEDICINE SEEN TO CURB PROBLEM

• Donors give $847 mln to cut poverty in Ethiopia
• ZTE to build national network in Ethiopia: report
• Ethiopian Company, Slovak Chamber of commerce sign deal to stage trade fair
• AU chief hospitalised in Japan: report
• ecbp launches first eLearning localization project

 

July 7, 2008

• G8 summit to focus on Africa, climate change: Ambassador
  PM IN JAPAN FOR SUMMIT
• Lack of info keeping Diaspora away from home: experts
• First phase of PBS program impressive: Ethiopia dev't partners
  BLOCK GRANT TRANSFERS TO TRIPLE NEXT YEAR
• Ethiopia elected president of African First Ladies
  

July 7 - 8 , 2008

• Eritreans urge AU to stop Egypt, Libya deportations
• Japan inaugurates $ 10 mln water supply project in SNNPR
• Islamist rebels attack Somali government HQ
• African leaders call on G8 to honour aid pledge
• Somali premier calls for U.N. troops without delay
• UN top official to present at int'l meeting in Addis Ababa

July 9, 2008

• G8 says committed to fulfil Africa aid pledge
• Sudan says Ethiopia attacked military base
• Authority, local companies sign deal for road construction, design projects
  worth 1.4 bln birr
  
  

July 10, 2008

• Ethiopia worried over Djibouti port tariff plan
• JICA,Oromia Bureau sign agreement to launch health project
• Workshop highlights role of higher institutions as centers for new scientific ideas
• UK commits another $40 to help Ethiopia's drought victims
• AU to set up African Monetary Fund
• Netherlands donates 5mln Euro to Ethiopian drought victims

July 11, 2008

• Ethiopia denies attacking Sudanese police base
• UNAMID condemns ambush on peacekeepers in Northern Darfur
• PEPFAR making strides in HIV prevention, Care in Ethiopia: USAID
• World Population day commemorated in Hawasa
• DKT Ethiopia launches new contraceptives
• Lawyers, other professionals trained on arbitration

July 12 - 13, 2008

• Health crises heighten humanitarian despair in Ethiopia: WHO
• Mauritius proposes orgn., fund for non-oil producing countries
• IFJ deplores new media law, calls for end to 'media repression' in Ethiopia
• ecbp to prize young Ethiopians with innovative business ideas
• Commission calls for improved treatment of inmates
• Ethiopian, UK universities launch joint projects in health, education sectors

July 14, 2008

• Ethiopia slams Swiss charity over Ogaden pull-out
• Country to work with Sudan on border security
• Ethiopia hopeful to achieve access to basic sanitation for all: Expert
  MEDIA SAID FAILD TO REPORT ON SANITATION,
  RELATED ISSUES
• Gov't says arrests 8 bombers
• Somali aid workers in crisis talks after killings

July 15, 2008

• AU urges ICC to suspend Bashir warrant
• Somalia minister, Ethiopian officers confer on current security: report
• FHI commences first technical meeting in Ethiopia
• Ethiopian acquires two new Boeing 757-200 aircrafts
• EMWA launches new book on women in leadership
• Bureau, Agency see success of basic education project

July 16 , 2008

• Industries urged to protect city's natural environment
  SECTOR ADVISED TO EMPLOY ENVIRONMENTAL AUDIT
• UN warns Somali crisis could rival '92-93 famine
• COMESA, SADC, EAC to discuss harmonization of trade
• USAID gives $ 50 mln to Pathfinder Int'l for health projects in Ethiopia
• CARE organizes two-day “pastoralist lessons bazaar”
• Mbeki to discuss Zimbabwe crisis with AU chairman

July 17, 2008

• Somali PM says ready to quit 'if that would bring peace'
• OiLibya buys Shell's Ethiopia, Djibouti operations
• USAID launches Ecotourism Dev't Program in Ethiopia

 

July18 , 2008

• Bill Clinton, former governor to come to Ethiopia end of month
• Ethiopia bottom at Travel & Tourism Competitiveness Index
• Athlete Haile's manager told to stop "meddling": report
• Somali parliament hails Djibouti peace agreement
• Peacekeeper shot and killed in Darfur: UN

 

July 19 - 20, 2008

• Ethiopia needs 25 yrs. to join group of middle income countries
• EU executive endorses farm aid plan for Africa
• African statesman condemns Bashir arrest warrant
• Relief group criticizes new US Africa command
• Community-led saving yields good results for HIV positive women: CARE
• Indian investment in Ethiopia reaches $1.8 bln TATA Int'l opens office in Addis

July 21 , 2008

• AU says Africa must press ahead with WTO negotiations for greater participation
  in US markets
• Authority says working to improve water supply, urges public to settle bills
• WFP seeks urgent navy escorts for Somalia food aid
• Africa Group lauds PEPFAR improvement, calls for more action

July 22, 2008

• AU seeks suspension of indictment of Sudan leader
• 'No deal better than a bad deal', WTO talks not a solution to end poverty: ActionAid
• Nation must preserve past to prosper: former governor
• Court orders Teddy Afro to defend charges
• WB gives US$ 487,000 for AU Commission's Diaspora program

July 23, 2008

• UN seeks urgent cash for Ethiopia food aid
• AU welcomes signing of MoU between Zimbabwe parties
• African ministers to discuss ways to finance housing
• Italy supports FAO initiative in lowlands of Ethiopia
• Australian mining co. to explore potash in Ethiopia

 

• Hail, worms and floods hurt drought-prone Ethiopia
• US provides additional $112 mln in humanitarian aid
• Hardline Islamist takes over Somalia's opposition
• Ministry says four more microfinance institutions to be financed
• AAU awards volunteer students in combating spread of HIV/AIDS

July 25 , 2008

• House accomplished many tasks the past year: Speaker
• Ethiopia needs to curb spending as ‘Imbalances’ grow: IMF
• Zimbabwean named African Journalist
• Association to issue licence taking over from MOH
• Israeli runner detained in Ethiopia
• Somali Islamist vows to protect aid workers

July 26 - 27 , 2008

July 28 , 2008

• US Emergency Assistance to Horn of Africa over $797 mln to date: report
• Sudanese envoy met Ethiopian officials on Sudan-ICC crisis
• City Roads Authority marks 10th Anniv.
• Somali MPs to approve newly trained troops to operate in Baidoa
• SPLM's Kiir to run in Sudan presidential election

July 29 , 2008

• Developing countries split over WTO farm protection
• PSI advises citizens to treat tap water before use

 

July 30 , 2008