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AllAfrica - Ethiopian News
- An index of news articles, collected from over 100 news sources. website
Ethiopian News Portal
- Current news regarding Ethiopia. website
Walta Information
- Walta Information Center is a private news and information service establishment based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It focuses mainly on major political, social and economic issues. Walta, with a network of reporters and stringers in dozens of towns throughout the country, has attained a high degree of reputability, credibility and popularity among its clients at home and abroad - http://www.waltainfo.com
M & C News
- Current African news - http://news.monstersandcritics.com/africa/
Ethiopia FM
- Current news - http://wn.com/s/ethiopiafm/index.html
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Insight News TV
- A number of 'reality tv' shows where Sorious Samura lives as an Ethiopian villager and a Sudanese refugee, each for a number of weeks. See www.insightnewstv.com
African News Dimension
- Current news for Africa - http://www.andnetwork.com
Addis Live
- News, music, entertainment, Ethiopian Artists etc - http://www.addislive.com/index.php
Ethio View
- Ethiopian TV, news, radio etc - http://www.ethioview.com/index.shtml
Media Ethiopia
African Australia
- News and updates on African-Australia http://www.africanoz.com.au/af_news/af_news.php
The Ethiopian American
- Reports and analyses news, complex social and historical issues as well as literary works on and about Ethiopia and Ethiopians in Diaspora and in Ethiopia. http://www.theethiopianamerican.com/index1.php
IGAD Headline News
- Current news and links for Somaliland, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Uganda - http://www.igad.ca/eth_21sept05.htm
Current Weather
The following website allows you to check the current
weather in over 20 different Ethiopian towns and cities.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/ET.html
The following website allows you to check the weather in
any African country.
It also has display options that for an Expanded (larger)
view of African.
The site also has an Animation tool that shows the change
over time of the Temperature / Windchill / Humidity / Visibility (etc) across
Africa.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/AF_ST_Index.html
The following website is for a 5 day Addis Ababa weather
forecast, wind speeds as well as astronomical information that include times for
moon rising & setting.
http://www.wunderground.com/global/stations/63450.html
The following website gives Maximum and Minimum
temperatures in Addis Ababa for each month of the year.
It also shows you the average Humidity and average Rain
fall.
http://www.exploreworldwide.com/tables/TT000200.htm
Recent news articles
12 Oct 2006 - Adopting from Africa: good or bad for kids?
Self-serving stunt for celebrities or helpful to needy children?
11 Oct 2006 - The dilemma of adopting an African child
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa By 2010, the U.N. estimates, 18 million African children will have lost a parent to AIDS. Already there are more than 43 million orphans on the world's poorest continent.
11 Oct 2006 - State to form child adoption authority
Kenya to form an adoption authority
4 Oct 2006 - Grounded in tradition
The Ethiopian coffee ceremony is about more than sipping a familiar beverage with family and friends
13 Aug 2006 - WFP helps 10,000 flood survivors in east Ethiopia
Following devastating floods in east Ethiopia, the World Food Program (WFP) said on Saturday it is undertaking a rapid assessment and registration of survivors to determine the immediate food needs of an estimated 10,000 people left homeless by flash floods.
12 Aug 2006 - Ethiopia warns of Somali dangers
Ethiopia has warned that Somalia's transitional government is in danger of being sidelined by the growth in power of the country's Islamic Courts.
12 Aug 2006 - Police Clash With Muslim Protesters in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia -- Riot police fired rubber bullets and tear gas Friday at hundreds of stone-throwing Muslims angered by the demolition of a half-built mosque in Ethiopia's capital, witnesses said.
11 Aug 2006 - Floods kill five in northern Ethiopia, mount misery for thousands displaced
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 11, 2006 (AFP) - Five people have drowned and hundreds been displaced in northern Ethiopia since midweek after swollen rivers burst their banks.