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Indian Investors Enquire to Irrigate with Baro River

Karaturi Global, an Indian company with agricultural interest in the Gambella Regional State, requested, in early November, that the Ministry of Water Resources authorized it to use the Baro River to irrigate crops for its intended agricultural development project.

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Auto Acquisition Transferred from Transport Authority to Finance Ministry

The job of procuring vehicles for government bodies whose budget comes from the federal government has been transferred from the Transport Authority to the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED).

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Djibouti Generates Grain on 3,000ht Gesture

The Government of Djibouti is harvesting 60,000ql of wheat from its farm in Western Arsi around Serofa, in the Oromia Regional State. The tiny nation, which is Ethiopia’s gateway to the sea, had been granted 3,000ht of prime land in June 2009, where it started growing wheat immediately.

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The Gedeo Zone in the Southern Regional State could also be called the ....

 
   

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Editor's Note  

Back in the year 2000, when the Tigray People's Liberation Front ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

There are many problems with fossil fuels, believes Michael Spence, a 2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics, and professor emeritus at Stanford University. One is the carbon emissions that extensive use generates, particularly in economies of advanced countries. In this commentary provided to Fortune by Project Syndicate, Spence argues that there should be a mitigation arrangement agreed by nations of the world in order to address the climate change of the globe.

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Opinion  

More than 73,000 SMEs were established in Ethiopia by the year 2007/08; they have created employment opportunities for 551,075 individuals, according to the annual progress report from Ministry of Works and Urban Development (MoWUD). This figure may sound rather stunning, but a comparison with Chinese performance might help strike a balance.

   

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Addis Abeba is deeply troubled by what many see as secretive deals entered into between the government and increasing numbers of rich gulf state companies - whose strategic objective is to meet their countries' food security - hold concessions of vast plots in Ethiopia, eventhough it is through lease.

   

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"We do not want our [political] message to be their bar-talk."

Ian C. Kelly, spokesman for the State Department of the United States, spoke to journalists in Washington D.C. on November 12, 2009. His statement was in response to a question from a reporter about whether or not  Secretary of State Hilary Clinton brought up the issue of the possible release of Birtukan Mideksa when she met with Seyoum Mesfin, minister of Foreign Affairs, in her office.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Political Parties Make History with a Handshake, Forum Abstains

 
 

It was indeed an historic moment seeing Meles Zenawi, chairman of the EPRDF, exchanging smiles and shaking hands with opposition political leaders. Following an agreement on electoral code of conduct negotiated ..... PLEASE SEE THE STORY

 
 
 
 
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The incredible men and women of the Diaspora who have returned to live in, work for and change this nation deserve to be lauded even as the vast potential ....

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Had we been in any other dimension or reality under the heavens, this particular period in time ...

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Although the price of meat has more than quadrupled in the last few years, the Ethiopian society, ...

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