Dave Harding assumed that somebody in the group of Duke offensive linemen who traveled to Ethiopia earlier this month would have a hard time adjusting on the voyage.

Maybe it would be the scale of the poverty.

Maybe it would be the manual labor of building a well in 90-degree heat.

Ethiopia has been able to raise electricity coverage to almost half of the country, as the nation claims to be have one of the highest coverage on the continent.

Ethiopia has raised its coverage to 2,140 megawatts (MW) from 370MW two decades ago, ensuring that 47 percent of the country is covered.

The Horn of Africa nation has embarked on a multi-billion dollar power investment to generate about 10,000MW of power in the next four years.

Ethiopia Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said that his military is looking to gain more ground from Al Shabaab in southern Somalia, Garowe Online reports.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi stated that the Ethiopian troops deployed in south central Somalia a preparing to increase the onslaught against Al Shabaab, so they can drive out Al Shabaab insurgents remaining in southern regions.

THE establishment of Tanzania Commodities Exchange (TCX) is a timely idea to check against unregulated actors, uncoordinated markets and poor information amid high risks and costs.

Subsequently, TCX would be modelled in a way that served best the interests of smallholder farmers and not middlemen, exporters or politicians.

And the best model for Tanzania was the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX) that impressed President Jakaya Kikwete and his delegation that toured the centre early this month in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The President, during the tour, directed the capital markets authority to borrow a leaf from the book of the ECX in the establishment of TCX as it was pro-farmers and not traders.

Meles Zenawi is the cleverest and most engaging Prime Minister in Africa – at least when he talks to visiting outsiders. When he speaks to his fellow Ethiopians, he is severe and dogmatic. But he entertains western visitors with humour and irony, deploying a diffident, self-deprecating style which cleverly conceals an absolute determination to control his country and its destiny, free of outside interference.

In 2010, Joyce Maynard wrote an article for More magazine announcing her adoption of two girls from Ethiopia. I read it (it’s no longer available online), and although Ms. Maynard and I had never met, I wrote her, congratulating her — and adding, as a parent a little over a year into the adoption of a child (as opposed to a baby) myself, some words of caution. Ms. Maynard had declared herself “happy, happy, happy.” I wrote knowing that even when “happy” didn’t feel like the applicable adjective for our changed family, happiness still appeared in unexpected ways.

It is no small task to garner some attention at the World Economic Forum (WEF), an event dominated by the presence of political leaders, CEOs, and operations chiefs of giant, global corporations and celebrities. Two Europeans, who participated in this year’s Forum on Africa, held in Addis Abeba, however, managed to steal the attention of many.

They were neither panel members nor chairpersons of meetings.

The country is, of course, exploiting its water, wind and geothermal potentials to address the rising energy demand by allocating about 42 billion Birr.
It is also steadfast to export power to neighboring countries to maximize foreign exchange and ensure its aspiration of becoming regional power hub.
In recent years, countries around the world are investing on power to fuel their engines of economic advancement with reliable energy sources.
Likewise, Ethiopia has been undertaking electric generating projects to considerably boost its energy supply.

The Metal Engineering Corporation the Privatization and Public Enterprises Agency of Ethiopia signed an agreement to construct five fertilizer factories at a total cost of 55 billion birr. The agreement was signed by Beyene Gebre-Meskel, Director General of PPESA and Col. Mulu Wolde-Gabriel Project management Deputy Director with Metal Engineering.

A student team from the University of Ulster will be traveling to Ethiopia this summer to help families living in poverty housing build their own home.

The students are traveling as part of Habitat for Humanity’s Global Village programme which sends more than 300 volunteers from across Northern Ireland to work in some of the world’s poorest communities every year.

Manchester, UK - Looking almost as strong as in his best years Haile Gebrselassie demolished a top class field in the Bupa Great Manchester Run on Sunday.

The great Ethiopian won the 10k race clocking a world leading time of 27:39. After this amazing display of the 39-year-old another Olympic Games appearance look like a realistic prospect now. It was the fifth win in Manchester for Gebrselassie after victories in 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011.

Ethiopian Television, not usually well-known for reflecting the prevalent issues within the society, seems to have struck a chord with ‘Sew Le Sew’ a soap opera style TV drama. The popularity of the show has increased with every episode aired after the 9:00pm evening news on Wednesdays for more than a year.

Various people have different reasons for watching the show, but most agree that they watch every week captivated by the portrayal of issues of corruption and social injustice that have for so long festered under the surface.

A new era in Dubai and Ethiopia’s bilateral relationship commenced with Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry announcing the opening of a representative office by the end of the year in Addis Ababa.

The announcement came at the successful conclusion of the Dubai Chamber Trade Mission to Ethiopia held from May 15 to 17.

Ethiopia — On a beautiful morning in late March, Alemtsehay Meketie rushed up the hill to the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Ms. Meketie, a 32-year-old reporter for the Ethiopian News Agency, was running late for the minister’s opening speech at the 21st annual meeting of the Ethiopian Statistical Association.

What was the conference about? Ms. Meketie didn’t know yet. But “jiggeri yellem,” as people here say for “no problem” in Amharic, the official language. “We’ll see when we’re there,” she said, gasping.

Genzebe Dibaba stormed to an Ethiopian record in the women's 1500m, her compatriot Hagos Gebrhiwet won men's 5000m, whilst Kenyans Milcah Chemos Cheywa (3000m S/C women) and Leonard Kosencha (800m men) took comfortable wins on a rainy evening at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Shanghai, China on Saturday.

An impressive Dibaba totally dominated the race from the moment the pacemaker dropped out with a composed surge to the line, clocking 3:57.77, a national record, a meeting record and the fastest in the world for two seasons.