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What’s on the Plate?
The
political plate that is on offer is promoted by its
signatories as the “electoral code of conduct”. It is not
all inclusive, though. Leaders of the opposition coalition
under the Forum for Justice and Democracy Dialogue (FJDD)
have not been invited to share from the plate at a dinner
hosted by the nation’s President at the National Palace on
Friday, November 27, 2009. They have declined to take part
during the negotiation phase, thus left out from the
signing. However, out of the 92 political parties registered
in Ethiopia, 65 of which are signatories, have shared in
from the feast. The momentous event at the National Palace
was worthy of a palatial banquet and who should be counted
among the honoured guests but those who brought the signing
about. The more publicised of these guests include Ayele
Chamisso of the Coalition of Unity and Democracy (CUD) and
those depicted in the picture above. Hailu Shawel (Eng.) of
the All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) [left], Lidetu Ayalew
of the Ethiopian Democratic Party (EDP) [middle], and
Bereket Simon from the ruling party, the EPRDF [right],
attended the feast in the opulent surroundings of the
Palace. Former nemesis, now seated side by side to enjoy the
delicacies being served from what was once the imperial
kitchen, are the ones who have waged bloody electoral feud
on the political terrain five years ago. For as a nation
sits on tenterhooks with the expectancy of what this means
for its livelihood and political landscape, the individuals
above are the ones who hold the key to the silver spoon
missing from the great majority's platter.
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Ethiopian
Forms
Hotel JV with Chinese Companies |
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Ethiopian Airlines has entered into a 60 million
dollar joint investment with the China Africa
Development (CAD) Fund and HNA Hotels and Resort
Group (HNA Group); they signed the agreement on
November 7, 2009, in Egypt. |
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Kenyans to
Converse Electric Connection |
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A
delegation led by Kiraitu Murungi, Kenyan minister
of Energy, is coming to Addis Abeba through the
invitation of the government of Ethiopia for talks
about financing the Ethio-Kenya electric power
interconnection project. |
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Roads
Authority Asks for Directions from Districts |
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The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is preparing for
the next Road Sector Development Programme (RSDP),
which could cost 40 billion Br. |
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Nib Bank
Nurtures Growth in Thorny Year |
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Nib International Bank S.C. disclosed that despite
the global and domestic challenges faced by
businesses it has performed "quite well" in all
aspects of its operation recording a 219.8 million
Br gross profit. |
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Fed Police Gains New Deputy Director Due to BPR Reshuffle |
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Girmay Kebede has been appointed first deputy
director of the Federal Police Commission in a new
structure that has four deputy directors. |
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Ministry of
Science Sorts out Its Institutions |
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The Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST)
proposed the establishment of six different
institutions under various capacities and
responsibilities, involving the radical
reorganisation of the Quality and Standards
Authority of Ethiopia (QSAE). |
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Agency
Arranges 119,000ht for Horticulture |
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The Ethiopian Horticulture Development Agency (EHDA)
has been preparing 119,000ht of farmland in Addis
Abeba, Bahir Dar, Mekelle and Hawassa for the
cultivation of exportable fruits and vegetables and
various kinds of herbs, according to one of the
agency’s officials. They have been working with
local governments to identify the plots. |
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Al-Amoudi’s
Agricultural Apparatuses Arrive |
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The agricultural machinery which Saudi Star
Agricultural Development Plc, Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi’s
new company, procured from Caterpillar for 80
million dollars has arrived at the port of Djibouti.
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Bahir Dar to
Raise First Flower Farm |
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Giovanni Alfano Farm, a flower and vegetable-growing
farm started operations on Monday, November 23,
2009, in Bahir Dar, by starting the construction of
greenhouses and beginning work on its open-air
cultivation. |
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City Lags in
Leasing Land |
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The leasing board of the Addis Abeba Administration
has rejected the result of the lease tender the
Arada District Administration had issued for four
different sites in its jurisdiction on September 23,
2009. |
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MIDROC Signs up for Second Gold Mine |
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MIDROC Gold has signed
a 10-year agreement with the Ministry of Mines and
Energy (MoME) on Tuesday, November 24, 2009, for the
extraction of 20,483kg of gold from the Sakaro area,
three kilometres from the existing Lega Dembi gold
belt in the Guji Zone of the Oromia Regional State,
about 500km southwest of Addis Abeba, where the
company has been mining since 1998. |
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Zemen Falls
Short of on Profit Promise |
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The first quarter results of the 2009/10 fiscal year
were the good news by which Zemen Bank’s Board of
Directors Chairman Ermyas Amelga, could present the
report of 2008/09, which closed with a loss despite
a promise by the management to deliver a profit to
the shareholders. |
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Southern State
to Salvage Its Coffee Sales |
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The Bureau of Agriculture and Rural Development of
the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples
Regional State is launching two multimillion
Birr-worth of projects to boost coffee production
and marketing in the region. |
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Resort,
College for Filming Under Construction |
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Microcosm Business Firm, a company based in Bishoftu
(Debre Zeit), cleared its sprawling farm on 35ht of
land earlier this month to start the construction of
a complex which the owner says was inspired by
Bollywood, the Indian film industry. |
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Deir Sultan:
Poignancy in Orthodox History |
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The 'Scramble for Jerusalem', or at least a part of
it, takes a whole new, but age-old, dimension in
Desalegn Eyob's documentary "Deir Sultan: Yesterday
and Today." This untold saga has to do with the
dispute surrounding the occupation of the Deir
Sultan monasteries in Golgotha, where, it is
assumed, according to biblical accounts, that
Abraham sacrificed Isaac, and Jesus Christ fell a
third time on his way to His crucifixion. |
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historic!
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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 by leaders of four
parties for two months, opposition leaders have asked the
code to be signed by chairpersons of the parties, according
to a top negotiator of one of the parties. The ruling party
has agreed. This led to a rather extraordinary turn of
events whereby Meles made an appearance at the Sheraton
Addis on Friday afternoon, October 2009 (before he departed
to Nigeria) and inked the deal with Hailu Shawel (AEUP),
Lidetu Ayalew (EDP), and Ayele Chamiso (CUD), in the
picture above. It is unprecedented over the past 18 years
for Meles to be seen in public, shaking hands with any
opposition leader such as Hailu (Eng.), an opposition leader
jailed and sentenced to life imprisonment before pardoned by
this administration. Smiles and hand shaking were not
reserved for the chiefs. Below is Sekoture Getachew, foreign
relations head of the EPRDF, following the suit of his
leader in extending gratitude to Getachew Mengiste (Maj.) of
AEUP. Far right (below) is Lidetu Ayalew of EDP giving ear
to Hailu, a political rival with whom he had a bitter
fallout in the aftermath of the 2005 national election.
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