Ethiopia is appealing for $266 million in emergency aid for the remainder of this year to alleviate food shortages threatening the lives of nearly 6.5 million people. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports officials estimate that one of every e...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 16 April 2008 Ethiopia's electoral commission and several opposition parties are trading accusations of illegal actions as the country prepares for the second phase of municipal council and parliamentary by-elections. VO...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 11 April 2008 Ethiopia's ruling party appears headed for a massive victory in local and parliamentary by-elections being held across the country over the next two Sundays. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports the...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 18 March 2008 Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has introduced tough measures to stabilize soaring prices, including a crackdown on what he called economic criminals, but he says the African nation's economy is esse...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 02 January 2008 Ethiopia has denied licenses to three independent newspaper publishers who were jailed for 17 months in connection with media coverage of the country's 2005 post-election unrest. VOA's Peter Heinlein has...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 02 December 2007 The giant American coffee shop chain Starbucks is opening a center in Ethiopia to help coffee farmers improve productivity and profitability. VOA's Peter Heinlein in Addis Ababa reports establishment of...
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 12 November 2007 The top leader of the Hawiye clan council of elders in the Somali capital Mogadishu is believed to have gone into hiding, after he accused Somalia's Ethiopian-backed interim government of trying to silence oppos...
By Cathy Majtenyi Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 30 October 2007 The rock-hewn churches of Lalibela are among Ethiopia's crowning glories, recognized internationally as a unique and important site. Built in the early 1200s by King Lalibela, the churches cont...
By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 25 October 2007 Ethiopia and Eritrea are blaming each other as a commission set up to adjudicate their border dispute prepares to finish its work without finding a mutually acceptable settlement. VOA's Peter Heinlein rep...
By Cathy Majtenyi Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 25 October 2007 In September 2007 Western time, Ethiopians rang in their new millennium, seven-and-a-half years after the rest of the world. Ethiopia's unique way of measuring time is part of the country's ric...