by David Pilling andLionel Barber in Addis Ababa It is the compound from which Emperor Menelik II conquered swaths of territory, where Haile Selassie passed judgment until he was toppled by a Marxist revolt in 1974, and from which Meles Zenawi, strongman prime minister until his death in 2012, plotted an Asian-style economic miracle on the Nile. Surveying […]
Haile Gebrselassie is sueing Facebook over Ethiopia violence’ Ethiopian athletics legend Haile Gebrselassie says he is considering suing social media giant Facebook for playing a significant role in inciting recent violence in the country, state-linked Fana Broadcasting Corporate reports. He said networking sites, particularly Facebook, have enabled the growing incidents of violence in the country. ‘’If […]
The East African In Summary Kenya and Ethiopia are working to speed up the issue of the title deed. Progress on the Lapsset Corridor project, a vast undertaking of ports, pipelines, roads, and railways serving Kenya, Ethiopia, and South Sudan in the first phase, had been halting until the uptick in recent months. Ethiopia has […]
WallWall Street journal ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—It took less than six minutes to deepen one of the gravest crises in the history of Boeing Co. At 8:37 a.m. on March 10, Captain Yared Getachew and First Officer Ahmed Nur Mohammed were accelerating an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX along runway 07R of Addis Ababa’s highland airport. The […]
Milken Institute Review, by robert looney For decades, the economies of sub-Saharan Africa were, to put it euphemistically, laggards. With rampant corruption, ethnic strife and miserable governance the rule rather than the exception, Africa’s prospects were routinely written off as hopeless well into the 1990s. But the continent has since surprised just about everybody. Six […]
Breaking Trarvel News, The agenda for the Africa Hotel Investment Forum has been also released. The event will take place at the Sheraton Addis, Ethiopia, on September 23rd-25th. Among an impressive line-up of speakers will be Olivier Granet, chief executive, Kasada Capital Management, the new billion-dollar, sub-Saharan investment fund, the first and biggest of its […]
Enqutatash is an Ethiopian (Amharic)word, which represents the Ethiopian New Year. It is called Ri’se Awde Amet (“Head Anniversary”) in Ge’ez, the term preferred by the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. It occurs on September 11th in the Gregorian Calendar; except for the year preceding a leap year, when it occurs on September 12th. The Ethiopian Calendar Year 2011 Amätä […]
The Guardian, By Yomi Kazeem As tech ecosystems and hubs continue to sprout across Africa, an accompanying effect has been an upswell in local software engineering talent. It’s proven enough for even global tech giants to notice: Microsoft is investing over $100 million to open its first development centers on the continent and employ 100 full-time African developers this […]
Tech Crunch By Jake Bright Two of Africa’s powerhouse tech incubators will join forces. Nigerian innovation center and seed-fund CcHubhas acquired Nairobi based iHub, CcHub CEO Bosun Tijani confirmed to TechCrunch. The purchase amount is undisclosed, but Tijani said CcHub will finance the deal out of its real-estate project to build a new 10-story innovation center to replace its […]
Editor’s note: On December 12, Hailemariam Desalegn, the board chair of the Alliance of Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA), former prime minister of Ethiopia, visited Beijing and gave a speech on School of Public Policy and Management of Tsinghua University. Desalegn emphasized that Africa’s agricultural development is facing numerous threats, which could be exacerbated by the […]
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