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Girma Birru Returns from Djibouti with
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The reaction from the Ethiopian government was
prompt, revealing the gravity of the matter; Girma
Birru, minister of Trade and Industry, left for
Djibouti last Wednesday, July 9, in order to
persuade Djiboutian authorities to reconsider the
tariff adjustment announced last week by DP
World-Djibouti. He stayed there for a night, and met
Ismael Omar Guelleh, president of Djibouti. |
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Central Bank Picks German, UK Firm to Print
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The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has awarded the
German Gieseck & Deverient and the British De La Rue
the multi million dollars contract to print various
notes of the Ethiopian Birr, sources disclosed. |
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Businesses to Raise Funds to Finance EPRDF
HQs, Training Centre |
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Owners of major businesses grouped into five sectors
have began raising funds that would be used in
financing the construction of a headquarters and a
training center for the ruling Revolutionary
Democrats. The Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary
Democratic Front (EPRDF) needs 130 million Br in
order to build its political command center up at
Arat Kilo, and a training centre to an army of its
cadres in Sendafa. |
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| Agenda |
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Yet again, leaders of the eight richest nations
under the club of G8 met in.... |
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Reads a motion inserted as Article 43 (7):
“Defamation and false accusation |
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Stunned by the news and the
image of a hungry child with a swollen belly, Asnake Getachew, an economist who
resides in Namibia, calls for a soul-searching exercise to answer such
questions; as what is wrong with our |
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Reconciling global economic growth, especially in
developing countries, with the intensifying
constraints on global supplies of energy, food,
land, and water is the great question of our time.
Commodity prices are soaring worldwide, not only for
headline items like food and energy, but also for
metals, arable land, fresh water, and other crucial
inputs to growth, because increased demand is
pushing up against limited global supplies. |
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"I'm
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Tewodros
Kassahun, popularly known as Teddy Afro, told judges at the
Federal High Court on Friday, July 11, 2008, pleading innocent
to the charges made against him on the death of a young man
after a hit-and-run incident. He urged authorities to intervene
in the case, according to a news report by the Amharic weekly,
Addis Admas. |
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President Guelleh, who is perplexed with President Issayas
Afeworki’s conduct in denying the existence of problems
along their common border, characterized Eritrean leaders’
behaviour as “frustrated and paranoid.” The following is the
excerpt of...Read More |
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Drought seems to have,
once again, reared its ugly head. Many children are
reported to be affected by malnutrition as a result
of this drought; some have even died, despite
denials to the contrary. Tesfalem Waldyes, Special
to Fortune, visited parts of the ... Read More |
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While
these worries hardly amount to the full frontal attack
mounted by the likes of Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel-prize
winning economist, they still constitute.... |
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Life Matters |
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A
group of my old friends, from what seems like 150
years ago, were spending some time together last.... |
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View From Arada |
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Technological development in terms of communication
has shown a great leap forward and has extended its
reach to almost every.... |
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