Beyonce launches world tour in Ethiopia
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia  Â Beyonce Knowles began her world tour in front of an audience of 5,000 fans in Ethiopia, a country usually unimpressed by Western music.
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Actors Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston spent four days in Ethiopia to learn more about AIDS in Africa to prepare for a campaign to raise funds to combat the disease on the world's poorest continent, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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The wife of reggae star Bob Marley said Wednesday that she plans to exhume his remains in Jamaica and rebury them in his "spiritual resting place," Ethiopia.
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Singer Beyonce Knowles has hinted that she will perform at the upcoming Grammy awards.
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Ethiopians organized demonstrations outside the Italian Embassies in London and Washington, DC demanding the return of the Axum Obelisk, a 24-meter high ancient monolith or carved rock , BBC reported on ...
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Text of report in English by pro-Ethiopian government Walta Information Centre website on 7 March  Addis Ababa, 6 March: The first private FM radio in the country, Fana FM 98.1, will start regular broadcasting on Saturday [10 March], the manager of Radio Fana disclosed.
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The German president, Mr Horst Koehler, will be arriving in Addis Ababa on December 14 for a two-day official visit.
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A reggae concert in honor of musical legend Bob Marley, which drew an audience of more than 200,000 Ethiopians to Addis Ababa, could become an annual fixture across Africa, its organizers said Monday.
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Thousands of Ethiopians and Rastafarians were jamming on a hot Sunday in the capital's main square as Ethiopia threw a birthday bash for the late reggae star Bob Marley, in what is billed as the country's largest concert.
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Meles Zenawi visits Somalia for the first since his troops helped oust Islamists.
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Ethiopia, a country more often associated by Americans with drought, famine and conflict, has become a hot spot for international adoption.
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Athens, Greece -- Debbie Ferguson carried the blue and yellow Bahamian flag during the parade of nations in the Olympic opening ceremony, then stood proudly Wednesday night as it flew in Olympic Stadium to honor her bronze medal in the 200 meters.
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The city's tourism office officially launched its first major international advertising effort Wednesday, aiming to sell potential visitors a new New York, one that's as much the birthplace of hip-hop as it is the home of the Empire State Building.
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Ethiopia opened an embassy in the chaotic Somali capital next to the presidential palace on Sunday, the latest sign of the Horn of Africa military power's close ties with a Somali government it wants to sustain.
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Pop star Beyonce is to play blues vocalist Etta James in a new film, according to a report.
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The State Department on Friday advised Americans that heightened security will be in place for celebrations in Ethiopia next month of the 60th anniversary of Bob Marley's birth.