By Joshua Hergesheimer, Special to The SunSeptember 19, 2009     It is early morning. The young girls walking along the ochre-red road that slashes through the banana plantations and small farming plots are not going to school. The yellow-plastic jerry cans they wear strapped across their backs stand out against the deep green foliage [...]

By Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia hopes its rapidly-expanding leather industry will generate $200 million from leather exports in 2009/10 (July-June), a government official told Reuters on Thursday. Ethiopia, which has an estimated 49.6 million cattle, 25 million sheep, 23 million goats and over 600,000 camels, exported leather goods worth $101 million in [...]

Alabama A&M University’s work to improve basic education in Ethiopia has received a $13 million boost from the federal government. The grant from the U.S. International Development Agency was one of three federal contracts announced Thursday by the university. A&M also received a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation for research in advanced [...]

By Jason McLure Sept. 17 (Bloomberg) — The rate of growth in Ethiopia was probably as low as 9.2 percent in the year to July 7 as electricity shortages closed factories, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said. The economy grew “somewhere between 9.2 percent and 10.2 percent” and will increase “at least as fast, if not [...]

  1. Tell us briefly about your family and when you adopted. My name is Chris Mackenzie (age 40).  My wife, Leigh (age 38), and I have a 7 year old biological son named Julian.  We live in Quincy, IL.  We adopted our daughter, Isabella (age 2), from Ethiopia back in February of 2008.   [...]

Most families who travel to Ethiopia come back a changed person.  The emotional combination of adopting a child and meeting the warm people of Ethiopia is certain to change you.  There is a profound sense of gratitude towards your child’s caregivers, the institutions that make adoption possible as well as the people and culture of [...]

      1. Tell us a little bit about your family. We are Mary & Gary and we have 4 children ~ Noah age 9 (bio), Nahom age 7 (adopted), Hannah age 5 (bio) and Maelet age 5 (adopted). Our adopted children came home Ethiopia in April and July of this year and are [...]

NOTE TO READERS: When I first started this website, Betlehem A. Semahge, an Ethiopian who lives in America, contact me and offered to be of service.  I quickly asked her if she could write an article that would help parents of Ethiopian children understand New Year’s celebrations in Ethiopia.  She wrote this great article and [...]

The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) said some 2.8 billion Birr was secured from coffee trade conducted with its members during the previous Ethiopian budget year. After the discussion held here on Monday on ECX’s performance report for the reported period and plan for this year, Chief Executive Officer of ECX, Dr. Eleni Gabremedhin told journalists [...]

8 September 2009 – The United Nations emergency humanitarian relief wing today warned of an outbreak of acute watery diarrhoea rife in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa that is threatening to continue its spread across other regions of the country.Local health authorities reported a total of 2,330 new cases of the disease and 22 [...]