Addis Ababa — Ethiopia's parliament has passed a law to regulate charities, despite strong criticism from opposition politicians, international human rights groups and national civil society organisations.
"The process has been started, but it will take some more days," Bereket Simon, public relations advisor to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, told Xinhua in Addis Ababa on Friday.
Nairobi/Addis Ababa - Ethiopia has come under fire for passing a bill that imposes limitations on the work of aid agencies related to human rights. Parliament on Tuesday voted through the bill, which bans foreign agencies from operating in the fields...
Amnesty International called the Charities and Societies Proclamation law (CSO law), adopted today by the Ethiopian parliament, a repressive law designed to strictly control and monitor civil society in an atmosphere of increasing intolerance of the work of human rights defenders and civil society organisations.
Ethiopia's parliament has adopted a controversial bill imposing heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups operating in the famine-ravaged country.
Ethiopia's parliament on Tuesday adopted a controversial bill imposing heavy restrictions on foreign-funded humanitarian groups operating in the war- and famine-ravaged country.
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Petroliam Nasional Bhd. will drill three exploration wells at the Ogaden basin in eastern Ethiopia , almost two years after pulling out of the region, the Reporter said, citing unidentified sources.
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Ethiopia declared its two-year occupation of Somalia a success as its forces began the last stage of withdrawal, leaving behind one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises and a government close to collapse.
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NAIROBI, Dec 6 (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Ogaden rebels warned Malaysia's Petronas [PETR.UL] on Tuesday they would not tolerate oil exploration in their remote eastern region, saying it would link the company to war crimes by the Ethiopian military.
BUJUMBURA, Jan 4 (Reuters) - Burundi and Uganda said on Sunday they wanted their troops serving in the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia to be allowed to take action against insurgents.
MOGADISHU, Jan 3 (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed in fighting between rival Islamist groups in Somalia on Saturday, one of the factions said.
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia said on Friday the withdrawal of its troops was under way from Somalia, where they have been helping the transitional government fight an Islamist insurgency for the past two years.
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has started pulling its troops out of Somalia, where they have been helping the Western-backed government fight an Islamist insurgency for the past two years, a senior official said on Friday.
MOGADISHU, Jan 2 (Reuters) - A convoy of trucks loaded with Ethiopian soldiers, mattresses and other equipment was seen leaving Somalia's capital Mogadishu on Friday, witnesses said.
ADDIS ABABA, Jan 2 (Reuters) - Ethiopia licensed $16 billion worth of new investments in 2008 compared with $11 billion in 2007, but only 20 percent of the investors began operations in the year, an investment official said on Friday.
LONDON, Jan 1 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday that the United States would need help to close down the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for terrorism suspects but refused to say if it would agree to resettle inmates with no links to Britain.
MOGADISHU, Dec 31 (Reuters) - Ethiopian troops propping up Somalia's Western-backed government are primed to withdraw in the next five days, officials said on Wednesday, potentially leaving a dangerous power vacuum in the Horn of Africa nation.