A new authority is to be established under the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) with special responsibilities for the lakes in the Rift Valley.

The city government of Addis Abeba is preparing to give tentative title deed documents by investigating the cases of those land holders without any documents and identifying those who deserve to be given the documents, it said.

The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is awarding two road construction projects, worth 1.3 billion Br, for two local contractors.

Kenya and Ethiopia, two nations that have co-existed peacefully for five decades in one of Africa's toughest neighbourhood, last week deepened their economic ties with a major energy-sharing deal.

Ethiopia is building a 240-metre high dam on the Omo River that is intended to end the country's electricity shortage and supply power to neighbouring countries. Not everyone's happy.