The New York Times - IT was not the expansive new mural depicting evolutionary history that brought Sandy McKean down to the Pacific Science Center on a rainy winter weekday. Nor had he come to linger over the elegant displays about Ethiopian culture.

African Press Agency - Ethiopia launched on Friday a $63 million sustainable tourism development project aimed at boosting the country’s tourism.

The New Vision, Uganda - The Ethiopian tourism sector hopes to weather the global recession by developing its unique attractions, boosting private sector involvement and tapping new markets like China, India and Russia.

Daily Nation - Addis Ababa or Addis Abeba or "new flower’’ in Amharic is what one can rightly call, in some well known parlance, a "peculiar" city. There are many factors that make this city very unique. One of these is the fact that the city was never planned by Europeans since Ethiopia was never colonised.