Addis Ababa — Almost a quarter of Addis Ababa residents have no access to toilets, says a new report by the Addis Ababa city authorities. “We estimate that some three million people live in Addis Ababa. Out of this nearly 25 percent of the population have no access to toilets and defecate in rivers crossing [...]

y Barry Malone and Tsegaye Tadesse ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) – Ethiopia is pinning its hopes on a rebound in harvests and prices for its crucial coffee sector to boost export earnings to $2.9 billion in 2009/2010, the trade minister said on Wednesday. Coffee accounted for some 60 percent of Ethiopia’s foreign exchange revenue in the [...]

Nov 30, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – A new global economic forecast released by the economist magazine has placed Ethiopia as the 5th fastest economy growing country for the year 2010. The UK-based magazine predicts Qatar as the top fastest growing economies in the world, followed by china, Congo, Turkmenistan and Ethiopia. The magazine argued that, [...]

Twenty-five years ago the Christmas season was punctuated by worldwide attention focused on Ethiopian famine. Irish rock star Bob Geldof organized at who’s who of pop icons to record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” and released it in November 1984. The single and subsequent Live Aid concerts the following summer drew money and attention to [...]

BAKO, Ethiopia – In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. “Why Attractive?’’ reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of the country available at bargain-basement prices. “Vast, fertile, irrigable land at low rent. [...]

 A 35-mile rift in the desert of Ethiopia will eventually become a new ocean or sea, researchers now confirm. The crack, 20 feet wide in spots, opened in 2005. Some geologists believed then that it would spawn a new ocean. But that view was controversial, and the rift had not been well studied. A new [...]

Residents of Addis Ababa are expressing discontent at the disruption in drinking water supply in many parts of the city. Hayahulet, Megenagna, Gerji, Wefcho Bet, Yerer, Gofa and Woyra Sefer are some of the areas which are hard hit by the disruption. Residents in the Woyra Sefer locality told The Reporter that they get tap [...]

American Spirit: For Every Pair of Shoes Sold, TOMS Gives Another Away to a Child in Need (CBS) A child in Soddo, Ethiopia, is getting his first pair of shoes. “We take it for granted in the U.S.,” said Blake Mycoskie, the 33-year-old founder of TOMS Shoes. “You know, I probably have 20, 30 pairs [...]