BY BUSANI BAFANA Sustainable Development Alert net Addis Ababa — Funeral societies may make their money from the business of bereavement, but in Ethiopia they are also important social networks that use kinship and trust to cushion communities from the … read more
Ethiopian Airlines Press Release Will Take Delivery of 3 more B787s in 2014 Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable African airline, is pleased to announce that it took delivery of its 7th Boeing 787 Dreamliner on 20 May 2014. … read more
Supper sport Ethiopian Premier League’s top scorer Umed Ukwurry has signed a three year deal with Egyptian side Al Ittihad Alexandria. The deal, estimated at $500,000, makes Umed one of the highest paid players originating from Ethiopia. He has been … read more
The Economist | LUSAKA BUYING ‘Fair Trade’ coffee is not really helping the very poor, new research suggests. By comparing living standards in Fair Trade-certified producing areas in Ethiopia and Uganda with similar non-Fair Trade regions, four development economists from … read more
Time.com By Charlotte Alter @charlottealter A U.N. Special Rapporteur on the right to food warned that obesity is a bigger global health threat than tobacco use, lamenting that it isn’t taken seriously A United Nations official called for greater regulation of unhealthy foods … read more
By Paul Schwartz, NYPost Nat Berhe born from Eritrean father *”Ethiopia, Eritrea, it’s all the same, just different name.” Nate Berhe You may or may not be able to tell a man by his tweets, but in Nat Berhe’s case, … read more
If you try spicing up your sex life, you may get more than you bargained for by going for a romp in these locations BY ALI TAYLOR LANGE You’ve likely felt it. The thrill of getting busy in a place … read more
James Beriker, for CNBC We asked James Beriker, CEO of Simply Hired, to give his commencement speech with advice for the college grduating . Ladies and gentlemen, James Beriker. Let me first congratulate you on your graduation! Be very proud of … read more
By MONICA KAYOMBO Zambia Daily Mail Monica Kayombo (right) with Memory Chipango, a travel agent at Voyagers Travel and Tours pose for a photo at the African Union Building in Addis Abba. PREPARATIONS for my second visit to Addis Ababa, … read more
SIMRAN KHOSLA, GLOBALPOSTEMAIL Using data from the CIA Factbook, we labeled every country in the world by its highest-valued export, aka the commodity that makes the country the most money in the global market. Unsurprisingly, most of the world runs on … read more