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Heavyweight Bid for Textbook Revision |
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The Ministry of Education (MoE) has opened part of a
3.61 billion Br tender to hire printers that could
publish and distribute four school textbooks,
including teachers’ guides, for high school
students. The tenders consisted of over 4,000 pages
of bid documents; weighing five kilos and worth
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Woman Files One of Highest Civil Suits Ever,
300m Br |
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One of the most expensive litigations in Ethiopia's
judicial history has been filed by a prominent
businesswoman, Mekia Mamio Sikessa, who is claiming
compensation worth 300 million Br from two
expatriates who allegedly provided faulty
consultancy services to her agro-business company.
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Rough Times for Arbaminch Textile |
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Already facing a serious financial crisis, the
Arbaminch Textile Factory is now bogged down by
large bills from two governmental institutions – the
state power utility and the Revenue and Customs
Authority (RCuA).
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Demand for Stone Increasing but Mineral
Mining on Hold |
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Small-scale businesses trading in basaltic stone,
red ash and selected material sourced from areas
around Addis Abeba but within the Oromia Regional
State still have to wait for the green light from
regional authorities to resume operations. |
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Revising the system of
issuing drivers licenses should reduce ... |
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Editor's Note |
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It is unbecoming of any candid observer to
say Addis Abeba stands - truly .... |
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Economic
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The state controlled power
utility, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has been under fire
from the public for its failure to provide reliable and consistent power to its
customers. The public is disarmed in the face of a crippling deficit crisis of
electric power provision. This is partly because the public watchdog with
oversight power over EEPCo has also been complacent, argues Yohannes
Woldegebriel, director under the ... |
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Since hitting bottom in early March, the world’s
major stock markets have all risen dramatically.
Some, notably in China and Brazil, reached lows last
fall and again in March, before rebounding sharply,
with Brazil’s Bovespa up 75pc in May compared to
late October 2008, and the Shanghai Composite up
54pc in roughly the same period. |
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Gossip corridor has been preoccupied with the holy
marriage of Afewerk Tekle, Ethiopia's celebrated
artist. There is no consensus at the gossip
corridors on how old he is he could be anywhere from
65 to 80 years old. A visit to Wikipedia has
him at age 77. |
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"If
you retreat, they attack; if you attack they retreat." |
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Iranian
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quoted by the BBC World
on May 25, 2009. Ahmadinejad has also compared Iran's enemies to
"dogs" while campaigning for the presidential election his
country is to hold on June 12, 2009, in which he wants to run
for a second term, BBC reported. He hinted that if
re-elected, he would have a face-to-face meeting with Barack
Obama. |
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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, ..... |
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Sequel to Meles Unravels All
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the medical profession has been hit the hardest by the
repercussions from higher education institutes that seem to
concentrate more on churning out numbers than ... |
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Life Matters |
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When we have turned our attentions to new things and
new hopes, can we really look back with.... |
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View From Arada |
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In the
light of the rising cost of food, many people are trying to
find cheaper alternatives to their ... |
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