Ethiopians on Sunday expressed happiness over the victory Kenenisa Bekele, who won his second gold at the world athletics championship in Berlin, Germany.

Ethiopia begin their bid for readmission to world football by holding a meeting that Fifa has been recommending should be held for more than a year.

Former world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield will fight an exhibition match in Ethiopia in July to help raise funds for AIDS victims, promoters announced Friday.

Earth Times - Solomon Tside of Ethiopia won the Hamburg marathon Sunday, beating the Kenyan Charles Ngolepus and Jose Telles de Souza of Brazil. Tside crossed the line in the northern German city in 2 hours 11 minutes 47 seconds, with a clear lead over Ngolepus, who began the race as pacemaker.

Boston Herald - The men’s and women’s elite fields for Monday’s 113th edition of the Boston Marathon were bolstered yesterday with the addition of top respective contenders Tekeste Kebede and Elfenesh Alemu. Both hail from Ethiopia and both have a past association with the fabled Hopkinton-to-Boston trek.

IAAF - On a day featuring warm temperatures, blue skies and a slight breeze, Daba Bekana won the Carlsbad 5000 on Sunday (6) as Ethiopian men finished 1-2-3 in the 5k road race. Aheza Kiros of Ethiopia won the women’s race, edging out U.S. Olympian Shannon Rowbury.

APA - Ethiopian athletes on Sunday registered impressive results in Paris marathon in both male and female categories.

APA - The new management of the Ethiopian Football Federation (EFF) on Tuesday agreed to step down, following the acceptance of FIFA’s road map this week to resolve the Ethiopian football crisis.

Reuters - Ethiopia has agreed to end a long-running row with world governing body FIFA over leadership of the country’s football federation, giving the national team the chance to play in international competitions again.

Daily Nation, Kenya - Ethiopians strolling on Addis Ababa’s Jan Meda playing pitches have been shocked for the last few months by what many of them believe to be a group of foreign men locked in a violent brawl.