Alfa Demmellash:-This Year CNN Heroes

Ethiopia native Alfa Demmellash is helping low-income entrepreneurs in New Jersey start or grow their businesses. Her nonprofit, Rising Tide Capital, has provided training and support to more than 250 individuals, most of them single mothers.More..

Ethiopian scientist wins World Food Prize for sorghum

An Ethiopian agronomist who developed a drought- and weed-resistant form of sorghum, one of the world's principals grains, is the winner of this year's $250,000 World Food Prize. More...

Ethiopia earns $540.5 mln from gold in last decade

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 12 (Reuters) -- Ethiopia earned $540.5 million from nearly 48 tonnes of gold exports in the last 10 years, the National Bank of Ethiopia said on Monday.

Officials say Ethiopia loses up to 1,000 kg of gold worth $10 million every year in contraband trade between artisanal miners in the south of the country and smugglers from neighbouring countries. More...

Ethiopia suffers from Middle East animal smuggling

ADDIS ABABA, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Ethiopia should take urgent steps to curb animal smuggling to the Middle East that is cutting into export earnings worth tens of millions of dollars to the poor country every year, a senior official said. More...

Discovery in Ethiopia Casts Light on Human Origins

The big news in the journal Science last week was the discovery of the oldest human skeleton -- a small-brained, 110-pound female of the species Ardipithecus ramidus, nicknamed "Ardi." She lived in what is now Ethiopia 4.4 million years ago, which makes her over a million years older than the famous "Lucy" fossil, found in the same region thirty-five years ago.Read more at:

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