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ADDIS ABABA, April 8  (Reuters) - Ethiopia's inflation rate quickened to 8.8 percent in the year to March from 7.9 percent the previous month, owing to a rise in both food and non-food items, official data showed on Tuesday. The Central Statistics Agency (CSA) said food prices rose 6.1 percent in March over the 12-month period from 4.7 percent in February, driven by price increases of bread and cereal. Non-food prices edged up to 11.8 percent in the year to March from 11.4 percent in February, owing largely to price increases of khat, a leafy plant chewed as a stimulant in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. (Reporting by Aaron Maasho; Editing by James Macharia) © Thomson Reuters 2014 All rights reserved ምንጭ፦ http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL6N0N01XS20140408

Human Rights Watch Press Release Ethiopia's human rights situation since 2009 has been marked by a harsh intolerance for any criticism of government actions and a sharp decline in freedoms of expression and association. Critics of government policy continue to be subjected to harassment, arbitrary detention, and politically motivated prosecutions. Two repressive laws passed in 2009-the Charities and Societies Proclamation (CSO law) and the Anti-Terrorism Proclamation-have been used to decimate independent media and civil society organizations. Political space has also constricted as the ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has consolidated control, the EPRDF officially won 99.6% of the votes in the 2010 parliamentary elections after intimidating political opponents, restricting media, and ensuring political support through its control of access to government services and other resources. Over the past five years most

At what level Hawasa Public Library is now? Library user requesting the librarian keeping their turn In a public library where almost more than 80 per cent of its first-string users are high school students who are marching to joining the higher education institutes, the inaccessibility of government prepared text books is simply an obstacle for their smooth academic journeys. As the text books are designed by scholars so as to feed higher educational institutes in the country with an enlightened generation that knows the economical, developmental, political, social and other directions of the nation, the government should be very much concerned about them. In spite of how relevant these text books are, high school students and users of the Hawasa Public Library are sternly complaining about the shortage of government text books. In fact, The Ethiopian Herald observed similar problems at Bahir Dar Public Library and dealt with hem a couple of months ago. With a population of o

From bean to brew, there's more to the drink that has had a rich and mixed-blended history A cup of Latte - what is your favourite coffee though? A number of myths surround the origins of coffee and its first use but it is thought to have come from East Africa and cultivated by Arabs from the 14th century. One legend suggests a goatherd named Kaldi discovered coffee in the Ethiopian highlands after noticing his goats, upon eating berries from a tree, became so spirited they did not want to sleep at night. Kaldi reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery, who made a drink from the berries and discovered it kept him awake for long hours. The abbot shared the discovery with the other monks who used the energizing effects to stay awake during long hours of evening prayer. Coffee beans are believed to have been exported from Ethiopia to Yemen in the middle of the 15th century with Sufi monks using the drink to drive away fatigue and lethargy during night-time

There’s a knock at your door. You open it, only to find several grave-looking police officers accusing you of a crime you didn’t commit. They pull out records of your most recent phone calls and tie you to your alleged co-conspirator, and now you’re screwed. This is Ethiopia. According to a  recent Human Rights Watch (HRW) report,  Ethiopian surveillance of phones and emails is rampant.  Eskinder Nega , a journalist and dissident blogger, reports being shown emails, text messages, and phone recordings when approached by Ethiopian police who were investigating him. Nega’s newspaper, Ethiopis , was shut down for being critical of the Ethiopian government’s abuses in freedom of expression and freedom of the press. Nega was sentenced to 18 years in prison for allegedly conspiring against the government in July of 2012. “Ethiopia certainly doesn’t have the resources or capacity to engage in surveillance on the scale of the NSA—very few governments do,” Cynthia Wong, a Senior Researche