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Call for EPRDF HQs Funding Gets Positive Response

The reply from businesses engaged in import and export on Saturday July 19 to the call to raise funds for the construction of the EPRDF headquarters ....

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Shell Ethiopia Employees Demonstrate

Employees of Shell Ethiopia demonstrated at the gate of their head office on July 23, 2008, expressing disappointment with the decision by Shell to ...

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VISA Electronic Transactions Net $31m for Dashen Bank

Dashen Bank generated close to 31 million dollars last year from its Visa card services, the company disclosed last week. This amount represents a little over one fourth of what the country has earned from the exports of flowers ..

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Hydro-Power Centres  for South, Oromia

The signed Memorandum of understanding encompasses the establishment of hydro power service centres, the implementation of about eight different hydropower schemes in SNNPR and Oromia regions, as well as facilitating ..

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Agenda    

In 2004, the then City Government promised to ease the housing plight with...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

For a world that is under extreme stress due to the rising cost of food....

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Yet again, leaders of the world’s riches countries under the name G-8 met in Japan last month. Nothing tangible came out from this meeting to the dismay of Jeffrey D. Sachs, professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. In this commentary provided to Fortune by Project Syndicate, he outlines four points why these leaders failed to act.

   

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Opinion  

It does not take long for a newcomer to the United States to discover that coffee is much more than a high-intensity jolt of caffeine. Connoisseurs speak of fruity notes and spicy undertones.

   

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VERBATIM    
 

"I don’t understand why the Prime Minister’s recommendation for an enquiry Commission is considered wrong and an influence on the Parliament.  He is also an MP."

Speaker of the Parliament, Teshome Toga, told the media on Wednesday, July 23, 2008, in response to a question about the establishment of the Enquiry Committee to investigate the General Auditor's report that exposed excess state borrowing from domestic sources. Teshome invited the media to his office to present Parliament's annual performance.    

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Guelleh Sees Eritrean Leaders Paranoid, Frustrated

 

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

Ethiopian Malnutrition Issue at G8 Summit

 

The malnutrition came against a backdrop of rising food prices, one of the currently pressing issues intensely discussed at the summit. Although malnutrition was not the main agenda of the summit, the leaders have discussed   rising global food prices.... Read More

 
 
View Point

The trouble was that the music has stopped, and there is now frantic movement to pay the mortgage payments that have doubled, or even trebled.

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Life Matters
 

As a member of Ethiopian society, one could not fail to notice the distinctive role that religion and ....

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View From Arada
 

A significant number of young breast-feeding mothers who are seen begging on the streets are victims of rape.

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