http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Addisfortune is the Largest English Weekly in Ethiopia. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300 Al Amoudi has a new company whose purpose is to grow food in Ethiopia for Saudi Arabia. This company has paid 80 million dollars for Caterpillar agricultural machinery and equipment. Its plans to increase its holdings to 500,000hct are preceded by the short term plans to acquire 200,000hct from various regional states in the country. WUDINEH ZENEBE, Special to Fortune reports that the company will add more crops as it increases its territory to include maize, teff, sugarcane and oil seeds. http://www.addisfortune.com/Sheiks New Agro Firm Shells Out 80m USD.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Betrework Tafesse, who has served in different capacities at the Construction and Business Bank (CBB) for the last 17 years, has been appointed as the bank’s acting president. Addisu Habba, who has been the president of CBB, has had his nomination for the top position at the Bank of Abyssinia (BoA) approved by the National Bank. http://www.addisfortune.com/Construction Bank Replaces Addisu Habba.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Administration approached ETC when it faced budget deficits for the year, agreeing to return the money by December 2009. However, the prospects, as seen from the first quarter of the 2009/10 fiscal year appear bad, city officials say. http://www.addisfortune.com/Slim Chance for City to Repay ETC’s One Billion Birr Loan.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Government Houses Agency (GHA) could involve in real estate development according to the proclamation by which it was established. Real estate development was also one of the major issues addressed by its business process reengineering (BPR). http://www.addisfortune.com/Arkebe Deals a Blow to the Houses Agency.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300The project study had predicted that 300,000tns of urea, 20,000tns of methanol and 90Mw of electricity could be produced from the vast accumulation of coal in the area, which is located in Illubabor zone of the Oromia Regional State. http://www.addisfortune.com/Coal Mining Project Wants for Deeper Pockets.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300It was dissolved according to article 542 of proclamation 166/1960 of the commercial code of Ethiopia, according to Teshale Beliu, deputy director of Walta Information Centre (WIC). He is one of the three people assigned by Mega as audit board for the dissolution of the company. The other two people, also from WIC, are Boka Geta and Abeje Mamo. http://www.addisfortune.com/Curtains Down for Mega.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Federal and regional authorities are establishing more checkpoints and opening more revenue and customs branch offices in the Somali Regional State in a bid to curb rampant contraband trade and encourage legal business. http://www.addisfortune.com/Authorities Attempt Checkpoints to Curb Contraband Goods in Somali Region.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300This donation is part of the 291,000tns of urea Ethiopia has planned for the 2009/10 agricultural seasons, according to Yakob Yala, state minister of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD). The government has delegated Agricultural Inputs Supply Enterprise (AISE) to import 750,000tns of urea and DAP fertilizer, the latter amounting to 459,000tns. AISE is already in process to procure 500,000tns. http://www.addisfortune.com/Japan Donates Fertilizer to the Tune of 110m Br.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Nazcheb started operation around the middle of 2008 but had to stop production for three months until last August due to power outages, according to Henok Abebe, general manager of the company and husband of the Ethiopian shareholder. The company now has a capital of 10 million Br, without including the newly imported machine he continued. http://www.addisfortune.com/Private Aviation Company Takes Off with Initial Five Million Birr.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Yohannes Mulugeta's wife is a person who believes in miracles after the horrifying traffic accident on October 4, 2009, around 8:25am. Yohannes survived the accident although his car, a Toyota DX, code 2-09166, was completely destroyed in the accident. http://www.addisfortune.com/Lucky Survivor of Road Havoc.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 12 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0300