Ethiopia would continue its support to the new Somali government and honor its commitment to provide capacity building, said yesterday the Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin.

The Sudanese-Ethiopian supreme joint committee meeting that was supposed to take place last week was postponed due to schedule conflict, the Ethiopian premier said yesterday.

African Press Organization (APO - The African Union Commission (AUC), the African Development Bank (AfDB) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) have jointly organised on Wednesday 8 April 2009, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, a meeting grouping Experts from AU Members States, to review the 2009 Report on Assessing Progress towards Attaining the MDGs, jointly produced and launched by the three organisations.

African Press Organization - The African Union Commission (AUC) will tomorrow, Tuesday 7 April 2009, join the rest of the African Community within the continent and the Diaspora in commemorating the 15th Anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide.

Xinhua - Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said Saturday Africa's voice was heard and success was achieved at the just-ended summit of the Group of 20 (G20).

AllAfrica - The Eastern Nile (EN) states, Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt, should, as stipulated in the joint program development, come up with a benefit sharing agreement that should entitle the riparian states to a lump sum payment for various downstream and upstream benefits, an Ethiopian scholar said on Monday.

The Economist - OMAR AL-BASHIR certainly gets around. In defiance of the arrest warrant for war crimes issued against him by the International Criminal Court (ICC) on March 4th, the Sudanese president has spent the past week jetting about northern Africa. He visited Eritrea, Egypt and Libya and was planning a trip to Ethiopia. Having called on some of his neighbours, he is making up his mind whether to attend a summit of the Arab League in Qatar on Monday March 30th.

USA Today - New York City's Empire State Building is scheduled to go dark for one hour Saturday night. So are the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, Egypt's Great Pyramid of Giza and many other iconic structures.

Reuters - Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir departed Sudan on Thursday for Ethiopia in a show of defiance to an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court on charges of Darfur war crimes.

Throughout 2008 I published articles (www.eineps.org/forum) on links between Ethiopia’s needs and the promises of an Obama presidency. Now that President Obama is in office, what might we project? What, that is, might it mean to reconsider U.S. relations with Ethiopia in ways that align them with the orientations of an Obama presidency?