Daily Ethiopia

The leadership of a faction of the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) rebel group has arrived in Addis Ababa seeking to resume stalled peace talks with the central government.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn arrived in Khartoum on Wednesday to bolster peace efforts between Sudan and South Sudan, official media said.

Westin Hotels and Resorts, one of the prominent hotel chains in the world is negotiating to manage the new African Union Grand Hotel which is owned by MIDROC Ethiopia.

Habesha Construction Materials and Development S.C registered over 5 million birr net profit in four months operation from May-June, 2012.

Five East African countries are expected to become beneficiaries of the Eastern Electricity Highway project which is expected to see these countries using Ethiopia’s surplus electric power for their domestic uses.

Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki has asked Qatar to mediate his long-standing feud with "arch-rival" Ethiopia. This message was communicated to the new Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalgn, by Qatar, while the Ethiopian prime minister was conducting a state visit.

Over the past decade, the Ethiopian economy has been growing at twice the rate of the Africa region, averaging, 10.6 percent GDP growth per year between 2004 and 2011 compared to 5.2 percent in Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new report by the World Bank.

While government leaders, NGOs and corporations devise strategies to churn out more food for future generations, Eleni Gabre-Madhin is taking a different approach. Concerned by a 2002 famine in her home country of Ethiopia that followed bumper crops in 2000 and 2001, the Stanford-educated economist decided it was time to go beyond food production and take a hard look at distribution.

PM Hailemariam just nominated to the parliament two Deputy Prime Ministers and three Ministers. Since Ato Demeke Mekonnen was elected to be Deputy PM few months back, the country in total will have three Deputy Prime-ministers.

Lawmakers in Somalia's new parliament approved all ten ministers named by Prime Minister Abdi Farah Shirdon by an overwhelming majority.