Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi discusses contending with militants, extremists and pirates in Somalia.
The waters of the Blue Nile have for millennia flowed down from the Ethiopian highlands enriching the countries on its banks.
Nima Elbagir reports on the Ethiopia's controversial Renaissance Dam, the largest hydro-electric dam on the continent.
President Barack Obama has invited four African leaders to join food security talks at the annual G8 summit this month.
Ethiopians went to the polls Sunday in an election analysts say will likely return the prime minister back into power after more than a decade leading the Horn of Africa nation.
American officials have condemned plans by the Ethiopian prime minister to block U.S.-funded Voice of America broadcasts in Amharic, the main local language.
Somalia's transitional government shut down the independent Shabelle Radio network Monday, amid a new push by government troops and their Ethiopian allies to put down an insurgency, network managers reported.
Ethiopia freed 32 opposition members Saturday who had been held without charges since a disputed 2005 election led to violent street protests, a senior official said.
More than seven years after most of the world marked the start of the 21st century, Ethiopia is putting the finishing touches to its own millennium bash.
In a case some rights campaigners have dubbed an "African Guantanamo," a British-based group called on Kenyan, Somali and Ethiopian authorities to come clean over the whereabouts and fates of some 66 Muslim detainees unaccounted for in Ethiopia.
Fierce fighting raged in the Somali capital for a second day as government forces battled insurgents determined to oust Ethiopian-backed interim President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed.
The Ethiopian government has rejected a call by human rights groups for an investigation into "police violence" during post-election unrest that left at least 27 people dead.
Ethiopian security forces held a number of opposition leaders under house arrest Thursday, a day after police and troops fired into crowds killing at least 22 people in the country's worst bloodshed in four years.
The death toll from clashes between protesters and security forces in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa has risen to at least 22 in a third day of unrest following a disputed election.
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