Missed the millennium? Catch it in Ethiopia
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The countdown has started on a flickering billboard high above a roundabout in Ethiopia's capital, blinking out recently in red and gold letters: only 209 days, 15 hours, 22 minutes and 22 seconds to the Millennium.
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Ethiopia entered the third millennium seven years after the rest of the world Wednesday, amid lavish celebrations, religious fervor and messages of hope from the troubled country&#39;s leaders.
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If you are in Sudan it is a "missed  call." In Ethiopia it is a "miskin" or a "pitiful" call. In  other parts of Africa it is a case of "flashing," "beeping" or  in French-speaking areas "bipage."
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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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Celebrations are held in Addis Ababa as Ethiopia ushers in a new Millennium under the ancient Coptic calendar.
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Italy finally looks set to heal a feud  with Ethiopia by returning one of its most cherished relics,  the obelisk of Axum, taken by fascist invaders almost 70 years  ago.
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Research advances could bring Ethiopic characters -- hundreds of them -- to text messaging, and maybe help modernize the country. Andrew Heavens reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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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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ARBA MINCH, Ethiopia  - The crocodile ranch lies almost hidden and largely forgotten behind the airport in Ethiopia's southern town of Arba Minch.
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(InfoWorld) - Ethiopia, South Africa, Ghana, and Mauritius will be the initial countries for the Indian government's $1 billion Pan Africa E-network project, a joint initiative with the Africa Union (AU). The project aims to develop Africa's information and communication technologies by eventually connecting all of the 53 African countries to a satellite and fiber-optic network. To launch first in Ethiopia, the project is seen by some as Africa's biggest ICT project ever, with online education and telemedicine programs expected to extend ICT infrastructure to rural areas and other underserved communities. India hopes the investment will help it to sell more telecoms gear to Africa, including VSATs (very small aperture terminals), as well as IT services for telemedicine and other social applications. It has said it wants to make inroads into Africa's ICT markets before China steps up its investments there. The telemedicine network will be used to share knowledge from Indian doctors with their African counterparts through online training programs, River Wallang, the Indian High commissioner to Zambia, said in an interview last month in Lusaka. The education network will allow similar information sharing, he said. Africa faces several challenges to building out its ITC infrastructure, including nonexistent or low capacity national and international communications backbones, Zambian president Levy Mwanawasa said recently. âAfrica needs nothing less than the development of broadband infrastructure if the continent is to move together with the rest of the world,â he said, at an event to launch the cellZ network (mobile phone service provider) in Zambia's western province last month. The Africa Development Bank has also announced plans to invest $1 billion in the continent's telecommunication and energy infrastructures. The E-network project was first announced by Indian president Abdul Kalam in South Africa in 2004. In October 2005, the Indian government and the Africa Union signed a memorandum of understanding to formalize the project. The AU, in Addis Ababa, is an organization chartered to accelerate economic development and peace in Africa. The Indian government has already established tele-education and telemedicine hubs in Bangalore and Ahmedabad. It will establish a hub in Africa to act as the main contact point between Africa and India and oversee the delivery of services. ICT has been identified as the main growth area in India-Africa trade relations, Erastus Mwencha, secretary general for The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), said recently.
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Ethiopia readied itself on Tuesday for a lavish millennium party celebrating the unique cultural heritage that produced, among other things, a calendar seven years behind the rest of the world.
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Fireworks exploded and the faithful knelt in prayer as Ethiopia finally greeted a new Millennium on Wednesday.
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The internet has dragged a âstuffy old businessâ into the 21st century.
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African economies face a daunting challenge to catch up with the rest of the world after missing out on two decades of growth, a new report by the World Bank has said.
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Â· Millennium goals within reach for much of worldÂ· Unsafe water undermines educational reforms
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By Vijayan Menon  IN the mobile world, time and space will have no significance given the feverish pace at which technology is advancing.  It was not too long ago when a mobile phone was a chunky, brick- like gadget that had a limited range and which one lugged around.
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By ELEVEN, Beck  Lisa Matisoo-Smith, principal investigator at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, was in Christchurch this week for the Evolution 2007 conference. She explains how humans might make it to the next millennium.