Ethiopia Internet News

2merkato.com has started providing business news relevant to the Ethiopian business community. The news section is believed to provide businesses with brief, accurate and up-to-date information on Ethiopian business happenings.

Rising through the ranks, Ezega.com has become one of the most viewed Ethiopian websites today. The site has been serving the Ethiopian community at home and abroad with quality news, information and data in many areas consistently.

In its week program of "movers & shakers of Africa", Channel K24, "Capital Talk" presents the story behind DotConnectAfrica and it's successful initiation of the ".africa " domain name.

DotConnectAfrica is invited to present the .africa project and its benefits to Regional Integration and Business community, at the regional top banking conference, AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA, Nairobi, 24-25 February 2010.

The DotConnectAfrica Organization based in Africa is applying for the delegation of Africa's identifier top level domain “.africa" from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) and make it available to the Pan African Community

Ezega.com, the premier online marketplace for Ethiopian homes, continues to provide users a convenient way to rent and sale their properties in Ethiopia. The largest of its kind in Ethiopia, Ezega.com posts various homes for sale and rent every week.

Ezega.com continues to serve the online classifieds market in Ethiopia. Although lagging a great deal, Ethiopia is catching up with the rest of the world in using the internet and many are using it to get information in clities across Ethiopia.

In an exclusive interview , Sophia Bekele speaks to Capital Ethiopia, one of the Country's top newspapers who named her "Africa's champion for the digital age".

Sophia Bekele a Rotary Paul Harris Fellow and CEO of CBS International, a US- based company, was recently invited to address the Rotary Club of Addis Ababa and Rotary Club West.- Capital Ethiopia features her address in its issue of July 2009

The leading news in Ethiopian media this week was the re-arrest of Birtukan Mideksa, the leader of Unity for Democracy and Justice party. Birtukan faces life behind bars after a pardon she was granted last year was revoked this week.