El Gendi, the coordinator of the Public Diplomacy delegation’s visit, travelled to Uganda a few days ago and met with Museveni on the issue of the Nile water and asked the Ugandan President Museveni to contact the Ethiopian Prime Minister to arrange a meeting.

The new African Union (AU) team of experts left Addis Ababa on Sunday for Abidjan in a fresh bid to resolve Côte d’Ivoire’s political crisis.

The tenth version of Africa's biggest mass road race, the Great Ethiopian Run, will to be held in Addis Ababa tomorrow. The organizing committee, headed by the prominent athlete Haile Gebereselassie, in partnership with the United Nations, launched its campaign of the 2010 Great Ethiopian Run with the motto: ''I am Running for the Child to Narrow the Gap to Meet the Millennium Development Goals.''

The Jewish Agency for Israel urged the government on Monday to provide adequate housing solutions prior to the expected arrival of over 7,800 Ethiopians of Jewish ancestry in the country

[Meles Zenawi] said he decided to jam VOA broadcasts in Ethiopia "by taking a page from U.S. policy". He wildly alleged that an evil cabal of supporters of the defunct Ethiopian military regime disguised as journalists had taken control of VOA's Amharic service.

It is in the delta, on some of the most fertile land in the world, that rice farmers have been ordered to plant fewer acres to conserve water as Ethiopia and other nations threaten to siphon away millions of gallons before the river reaches Egypt.

But the countries that share the Nile River basin – Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and Democratic Republic of Congo – are tired of Egypt, and to a lesser extent Sudan, dictating the terms of the river water’s usage.