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EEPCo to Acquire Generators in Bid Avoid Blackouts in Addis

The Egyptian cable manufacturing firm, El Sewedy, is to supply three generators each with 40wm generation capacity to the state owned utility company, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), sources disclosed to Fortune.

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Luna to Resume Meat Export

Luna Export Slaughter House Plc is to resume meat exports to Egypt after a three year interruption caused by Egypt’s fear of possible foot and mouth disease in Ethiopia.

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Cable Co. to Agree: More Land for More Turn Out

El Sewedy Cables, which inaugurated its cable manufacturing plant in Dukem on October 20, 2009, is to sign an agreement with the Dukem Administration for an additional plot of 20,000sqm to carry out an expansion project which will enable it to produce more products.

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Speciality Coffee: The New Thing at ECX

Ethiopia’s coffee trading is soon to include speciality coffee trading alongside the trading of commercial coffee trading. The speciality coffee trading measure aims at connecting farmers directly with international buyers, opening a direct window for them, according to Eleni Gebre Medhin, CEO of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX).

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Investors have applied for their operating licences in droves and the....

 
   

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Editor's Note  

Last week marks the 25th year after the terrible famine of 1984-85 ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

The global climate talks in Bangkok attracted more than 4,000 delegates from 177 countries. The major elements in the climate negotiations were adaptation action; reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation in developing countries; technology; capacity building and finance. This was what President Barack Obama described as a tough journey to delegates of the G20.

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The United Nations Climate Change Treaty, signed in 1992, committed the world to "avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate system." Yet, since that time, greenhouse-gas emissions have continued to soar.

   

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A few weeks ago, the country director of the World Bank for Ethiopia and Sudan, Ken Ohashi, ran a commentary in this paper advising leaders of the ruling party to really look to the east so that they could .....

   

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"There is no party called Kinijt now, if the one which is led by Ayele Chamiso is assumed to be so, we feel that it is a party that associates with the EPRDF."

Gebru Asrat, chairperson of the Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty Party and former president of the Tigray Regional State, told an Amharic weekly, Dagu Ethiopia, in an interview on October 24, 2009. He made the statement while accusing the TPLF of being engaged in false accusation and suppression of opposition parties rather than challenging their political programmes.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
ECX: The Avant-Garde of this Business Generation
 

And it has a founder, an architect of the whole marketing system now in place, who is known to be articulate and assertive. Eleni Gabre-Madhin (PhD), chief executive officer (CEO) of ECX, has talked to Hilina Alemu, our editor-in-chief, about the four initiatives she is planning to introduce during this Ethiopian fiscal year. These initiatives will radically transform how markets function in Ethiopia,  .. Read More


A Race Too Tough to Win for Arsi’s Dreamers

 
 

Endowed with cool weather, high altitude, an organic though cheap diet and an unrelenting motivation, the Arsi Zone in Southeast Ethiopia is any long-distance running coach’s dreamland for nurturing talents of tomorrow... Read More

 
 
 
 
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Imagine the long and tedious process of gathering decrepit one Birr notes. It is, without a doubt, the this particolar note which suffers the worst of the wear and tear ..

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Life Matters
 

With the cloudy dawn of the New Year, also comes upon us a brand new season for politics and elections.

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View From Arada
 

The extremities in weather bring the issue of climate change front and centre as people all over the ...

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