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The Two Sides of Meles

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi appeared to be in an upbeat mood on late Wednesday afternoon, June 24, 2009, when speaking to the international media and journalists from the English press. He was witty in his remarks and directly answered some of the personal questions. Read More

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Sweet Deal, Finally

The Tendaho Sugar Factory Project Office made an advance payment of 16.6 million dollars to Overseas Infrastructure Alliance Private Limited (OIA) to commence the construction of the factory as disclosed by officials....

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ECX to Update Communication Technology

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) has awarded the project for the development of software to introduce the Short Message System (SMS) and ..

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Africa Sees Mixed Prospect in Sinking Global Economy

Amid continued uncertainty about the prospect of a global economic meltdown a report authored by two of Africa's key economic institutions offered ...

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Agenda    

Go to some towns in Ethiopia like Debre Zeyit or Dira Dawa and you're likely....

 
   

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Editor's Note  

One of the trademarks of the Revolutionary Democrats is their....

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared that "The Washington Consensus" is dead. Abiye G. Abebe, a certified financial analyst and project manager as well as a quality control professional in Minnesota, United States (geta_gacha@ yahoo.com), says not yet. Taking off from Margaret Thatcher's famous remark, partisans of this development model during...

   

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Opinion  

In August 2008, while he was still a Senator and a presidential candidate, Barack Obama acknowledged the presence of slavery, in various forms, in the United States.

   

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Gossip    

Who sets the agenda for public discourse in Ethiopia is a tricky business. Quite often, it is the ruling party that seems to have a dominant hold in setting issues that usually make everybody else reactive.

 
   

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"The notion that because we didn't finance power they have a problem, that's bogus."

Kenichi Ohashi, director of the World Bank for Ethiopia and Sudan, told the business news service, Bloomberg, last week in response to Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's remarks that his administration would have avoided the current power blackout if Ethiopia's development partners had supported him.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW-THE busiest pOWER MAN!

   

Miheret Debebe, general manager of the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), is the busiest man ever to run the state utility monopoly in its 61-year history; he has to oversee the constructions of six projects that are designed to generate a combined 3,267Mw electric power, .....

"Mussolini is dead; we are Still Here!"

   

Neil Kinnock (Lord), chair of the British Council, who has came here for the opening of the new British Council office as well as to take part in discussions with Deputy Head of the African Union Commission, Erastus Mwencha, and other commissioners, argues, in an exclusive interview last Tuesday with OMER REDI, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, that the institution is independent of the British government in its operations and approximately 12.6 billion Br or 70pc of its annual turnover income is self-generated.   

 
 
 
View Point

You may not realize it, but Ethiopia and the United States have some striking similarities.  Both developed with expansionist moorings.  And both have places where people are considered eccentric. 

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Life Matters
 

It never ceases to amaze me how inattentive we are as a nation and as a people to the small ...

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View From Arada
 

Used cars, many of which have safety issues, sell for the price of new automobiles in the West.  This creates difficulty for people .....

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