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ADDIS ABABA, 25 August 2010 (IRIN) – Heavy flooding in the Amhara region of northern Ethiopia has displaced more than 8,000 people, say officials. The floods hit the Dawa Chefa, Hartuma Fursi and Bishee Edida districts after three days of torrential rain, according to the zonal disaster and food security coordination office, which also reported [...]

Click to see the documentry BLOOMING BUSINESS! Filmmaker: Ton van Zantvoort A bouquet of flowers can bring delight to its recipient – but for many Kenyans living around Lake Naivasha’s huge commercial flower farms, these sweet-smelling blooms bring human exploitation and ecological destruction. The flower farms on the shores of Lake Naivasha produce tonnes of [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HBqA7ppo4M[/youtube] The USA is using a different approach in fighting terrorism in the horn of Africa. Al Jazeera’s Mohammed Adow reports on an Ethiopian school, where soldiers are using their hands to win hearts. Also read/see: U.S. Pushes Anti-Terrorism in Africa Under Long-Term Program, Pentagon to Train Soldiers of 9 Nations Say No to Africom [...]

A dispute between Egypt and upstream African nations has brought to the fore a long-standing controversy over who has rights to the waters of the Nile. The outcome could have profound consequences for the ecological health of the river and for one of the world’s largest tropical wetlands. by fred pearce A simmering dispute over [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHl7tgN1gH0[/youtube] Africa’s Great Hope September 2005 Only a few months ago, Ethiopia was being touted as Africa’s great hope. So why was its first , marred by political assassinations, widespread fraud and intimidation? “This could potentially explode at any moment. It is a very, very dangerous situation,” warns EU Ambassador Tim Clark. Following elections dominated [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dW7rShq4rqk[/youtube] June 2003 Coffee farmers of Ethiopia are facing destitution. The collapse in world coffee prices means that prices no longer even cover growing costs. Farmers in Ethiopia are now lucky to make $10 a year. Prices have fallen 70% in the past four years and since the collapse of the International Coffee Organisation, farmers [...]

E.I Business News E.I Business Opportunities >> Swiss Vendor Bags CBE’s 70m Br IT ContractThe long overdue IT procurement by the largest and oldest bank in the country, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), was signed and sealed two weeks ago by an international technology vendor based in Switzerland, Temenos Group AG. Read more… >> [...]

Who imagined that in 2009, the world’s governments would be declaring a new War on Pirates? As you read this, the British Royal Navy – backed by the ships of more than two dozen nations, from the US to China – is sailing into Somalian waters to take on men we still picture as parrot-on-the-shoulder [...]

The European Union’s chief election observer in Ethiopia has said that last weekend’s poll was conducted on an “uneven playing field” that favoured the party of the prime minister. Ethiopia’s ruling party, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) won the elections, according to preliminary results. But the EU observers said on Tuesday that while voting was calm and [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFnLYdpfAL8&feature=player_embedded#![/youtube] Voting is underway in Ethiopia, in legislative elections that are set to be a stiff test of the country’s democracy.Menes Zelawi, the current prime minister, is expected to be returned as leader, after 19 years in power.But the opposition is already crying foul, with memories of the 2005 election that led to widespread bloodshed [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C08bR0bVnBQ[/youtube] Ethiopia’s prime minister has rejected a threat by Egypt to prevent the building of dams and other water projects upstream on the Nile river. Meles Zenawi told Al Jazeera on Wednesday that Egypt will not be able to stop his country from building dams on the river. His comments came nearly a week after Ethiopia joined Uganda, [...]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pwNTQP6gU[/youtube] Meles Zenawi, the Ethiopian prime minister, presides over the country with the second-largest population in Africa. Zenawi has been the prime minister of Ethiopia since 1991 but he has most recently been in the headlines for his role in the country’s upcoming elections. Crtitics claim it is impossible for the opposition to win Sunday’s vote because [...]

Four African countries have signed a new treaty on the equitable sharing of the Nile waters despite strong opposition from Egypt and Sudan who have the major share of the river waters. Rwanda, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania – four of nine Nile Basin countries – signed the new framework on Friday while Kenya issued a [...]

A group of international campaigners has launched an online petition against Ethiopia’s huge Gibe III dam project. The group wants to put pressure on Western donors and banks not to fund the dam, saying it would destroy the livelihoods of some 500,000 people. The dam is on the Omo River, which flows from southern Ethiopia [...]

With Westerners so used to criticising the often flawed elections in African states, 11 parliamentarians from Commonwealth countries in Africa and Asia were brought over to watch how an election is run in the UK. It was not always a pretty sight. People being turned away from polling stations, ballot papers running out and sit-in [...]