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New Authority to Rejuvenate Rift Lakes |
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The ministry has hired a consultancy firm,
Generation Consult, with which it signed an
agreement worth 1.8 million Br to study the
situations and propose the structure for the new
authority. Five firms, including Desta Horecha Water
Supply Engineering, ITAB Consult, and Omega
Development had offered their tenders following the
ministry’s invitation on October 27, 2009. |
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Titled Deeds, but Only for the Deserving |
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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. |
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Customs to Obtain High Tech Tools Totalling $28m |
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The Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA)
is expecting to take delivery of cargo scanning and
x-ray machines as well as sensitivity cameras worth
28 million dollars within the next four to six
months, a senior official disclosed. |
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Tigray, Southern Towns Get
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The first, a 76km segment from Dedebit to Adi Remets
in Tigray, was awarded to Sur Construction which
offered 801 million Br to the one billion Br offered
by Yenkomad, the only other contender for the
project. |
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After years of failing to meet its own revenue
targets drawing.... |
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Editor's Note |
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The state-owned Ethiopian Airlines has long
had the reputation for .... |
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Economic
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China's role in the economic
life of developing countries, such as Ethiopia, has become a subject of intense
interest to many scholars. China's indifference to values often upheld by the
liberal West but compromised by governments in developing nations and its role
in lubricating their economies regardless, causes fear, observes Getachew T.
Alemu, who works at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED). He
argues that Ethiopia, focusing on building its institutions, can still be on
good terms with both the East and West. |
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The questions that need to be answered are: “For
what specific reasons are we holding a democratic
election in the real sense of the term? What
determines the moral and material directions of the
politics of this nation? Is there any moral
component in the contemporary politics of the world
in general and that of Ethiopia in particular?” |
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National elections are only four months away from
the electoral showdown. Voter registration appears
to be going well, with the national electoral body
claiming to have registered over 17 million voters
up until last week; they have eight million voters,
to keep in their books in order to match... |
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"Limitations
on political expression and economic activities as well as shortcomings in the
respect for basic human rights run counter to American principles and risk
becoming the seeds of future instability." |
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Donald E.
Booth, US ambassador-designate to Ethiopia, said this to the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 2, 2010. Booth,
who has served as the US Ambassador for Zambia since 2008, said
that his country has complex interests in Ethiopia. |
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The
nation is getting ready for the elections of 2010 which -
for the citizens - means making the decision to register
or not. Few are those who go down to the registration
stations to obtain the cards necessary for voting on May 23,
2010.....SEE
THE NEWS ANALYSIS |
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The Timket festival was celebrated amid great masses
moving shoulder to shoulder and surging as one.
Their chanting rose, dipped and fell with a unity
and spirit that flowed and ebbed with a life all its
own. Front and centre were the tabots escorted and
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