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RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C.----Quintiles has expanded its capacity in Africa with the opening of an office in Nairobi, Kenya. A team of locally-based clinical professionals will monitor throughout East Africa, enhancing Quintiles capability to provide clinical research services across the continent.

Tower Bar's namesake tower in City Heights is visible from blocks away, jutting skyward between Vietnamese Laundromats and Ethiopian restaurants like a cartoon monument to a forgotten Aztec deity.

Somalia 's transitional government and the Ahlu Sunna wal Jama'a militia that controls parts of central Somalia will sign a peace agreement this weekend, an African Union official said.

Allegations implicating the Ethiopian government say that aid money intended to help the starving, including funds from the 1985 Live Aid Concert, was used to buy weapons and finance an attempted coup in the 1980s.

Heavy fighting between Somali insurgents and pro-government troops has killed at least 43 people over two days, as African Union peacekeepers used tanks to help the beleaguered government beat back an insurgent attack, officials said Thursday.

UNITED NATIONS | Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, according to a U.N. Security Council report. The report blames the problem on improper food distribution in the Horn of Africa nation, which has been beset by fighting and humanitarian suffering for nearly two.

Fighting between Islamist insurgents and government forces continued for a second day in the Somali capital as medical officials say at least 23 people died in the clashes.

East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.

BEIRUT: Speaker Nabih Berri said Wednesday the Lebanese government has decided to deliver aid to the families of the Ethiopian plane crash victims.

MONITORS TO BE MOBILISED FOR 40000 POLLING STATIONS IN ETHIOPIAN ELECTIONSADDIS ABABA, March 11 (NNN-ENA) - The Coalition of Civil Associations of Ethiopia says it will assign election observers at more than 40000 polling stations.

IGAD renews commitment to support Sudan peace - MelesMarch 10, 2010 (ADDIS ABABA) - Ethiopian prime minister, who last night returned home from IGAD summit in Nairobi, said on Thursday that.

State Department Makes Key Change in Adoptions from EthiopiaIn response to these reports, the US Embassy in Addis Ababa has implemented some changes to adoption visa processing. Adoptive parents should be aware that.

SEATTLE - She wrote the letter more than 46 years ago. From Ethiopia, Ann Owens felt the pain and shock of President John F. Kennedy's death and put pen to paper in a touching letter to her mom. Owens writes, "Dear Mom, Even the Ethiopian sky is in mourning today and it was raining last night when President Kennedy died.

Eritrea accused the US yesterday of trying to destabilise the Horn of Africa nation and halt its economic growth, local media reported. Relations between the government and Washington remain antagonistic.

CEDAR RAPIDS - A 25-year-old Ethiopian man is asking a federal magistrate judge to suppress a search of his belongings at the Eastern Iowa Airport on Jan. 14, where immigration agents recovered marijuana, because the agents based the search on what they thought was gang attire and racial profiling.

NAIROBI, Kenya, March 10 -- East Africa is emerging as the next oil boom following a big 2006 strike in Uganda's Lake Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and even war-torn Somalia.

Women of Ethiopia Say Life is BetterVOA reporters in Addis Ababa and Mekelle took their microphones to the streets to measure public attitudes during the International Day for Women.

MOGADISHU, Somalia - A medical official says intense fighting in the Somali capital between Islamist insurgents and government forces has killed at least 17 people.

President Mwai Kibaki has challenged Kenyan investors to take advantage of the expanded East African Community (EAC) common market to increase their investments and make penetration.

Eritrea has accused the United States of trying to destabilise the Horn of Africa nation and halt its economic growth, local media reported