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One step ahead!
The ruling
EPRDF organised a day-long discussion for its senior party
members on Friday, December 4, 2009, at the Addis Abeba City
Hall.
Some 124
party members discussed the content of the electoral code of
conduct, EPRDF's election strategy and the implementation of
the code, representing the four member parties - the Tigray
People Liberation Front (TPLF), the Oromo People Democratic
Organization (OPDO), the South Ethiopia Peoples Democratic
Movement (SEPDM) and the Amhara Nation Democratic Movement (ANDM),
according to Sekuture Getachew, public and foreign relations
department head of the EPRDF.
Here in
the picture, from left to right: Hailemariam Desalegn,
government whip at the Parliament; Muktar Kedir, head of the
Secretariat for the EPRDF Council; and Bereket Simon, head
of the Government Communications Affairs Office with a
ministerial portfolio were exchanging pleasantries as
journalists were leaving the hall for what would continue to
be a closed session.
The
meeting was a rushed implementation of the electoral code of
conduct which was debated at the Parliament a day before and
passed to the Legal and Administrative Affairs standing
committee. Article 32 of the electoral code requires that
parties train their members on the code.
Thought
the document is yet to be ratified by Parliament, all the
important signatories have gone ahead of it by implementing
it. Similar actions were taken by the Ethiopian Democratic
Party (EDP) for the past two weekends to discuss the content
and implementation of the bill among its party members in
various parts of Addis Abeba, according to Lidetu Ayalew,
leader of the party. His party also has plans to hold
further discussions in some towns of the major states.
Ayele
Chamisso, Leader of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy
(CUD), has informed Fortune that his party has already sent
copies of the document to its members in some of the major
towns of the Amhara, South and Oromia Regional States.
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Mojjo Port
Heaves Under Limited Storage |
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The Mojjo Dry Port terminal is complaining of large
amounts of materials imported by the Ethiopian
Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) for rural
electrification which have been in store for the
past two months. |
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Al-Amoudi Solicits Additional Arable Land |
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Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi’s recently established Saudi
Star Agricultural Development Plc requested, two
weeks ago, for an additional 250,000ht of land in
Jawi Wereda of the Awi Zone of the Amhara Regional
State for sugar beet production from the Ministry of
Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD). |
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Train of Textbook Tenders |
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The World Bank is expected to respond over the next
two weeks to the tender evaluation of the Ministry
of Education (MoE) for the publication of Civics and
Ethics textbooks and teachers’ guides for grades
nine through 12. |
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Authority Eager to Reclaim Land Doled out to Investors |
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Would-be investors, forty in number, are to lose
land they had been given by the Addis Abeba
Administration, a source disclosed to Fortune. |
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Electoral Code
Passes Parliament |
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Parliament passed the bill on the electoral code of
conduct to the Legal and Administrative Affairs
Standing Committee for further scrutiny on Thursday,
December 3, 2009, notwithstanding opposition from
parties who did not partake in the negotiations.
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Last Dictum for Al-Amoudi's Plot in Piassa. |
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The Addis Abeba Lease Board is expected to give its
final decision, over the next two weeks, concerning
the 36,000sqm plot in central Piassa which had been
leased to Huda Real Estate of Mohammed Ali
Al-Amoudi. The land had been idle for the past 12
years. |
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Africa Avenue Adorned amidst Unease |
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An ornamental and purposeful fence worth 2.4 million
Br is under construction on Africa Avenue amid
scrutiny with regard to its purpose and the safety
concerns it is posing.
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Anbessa Defers to Administration’s Adjustments |
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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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Bio-diesel
Supply Giants Come to an Understanding |
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PRAJ Industries Limited, an Indian company that
supplies bio-diesel and bio-ethanol technologies,
signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with
Ardent Energy Group (AEG) Ethiopia and Eco-Energy
S.C. Ethiopia on December 4 and 5, 2009, one after
the other. |
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Banking
Profits All Around |
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Another round of banking profits were announced over
the last two weeks by United Bank and Bank of
Abyssinia (BoA), which respectively grossed 133.5
million Br and 145.5 million Br. |
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Dukem Desires Office for Land Survey Data |
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Dukem Administration has requested the Oromia
Special Zone Land Administration and Environmental
Protection Bureau for permission to open a new
office for functions related to the geographical
information system (GIS) survey, which was completed
on November 22, 2009. |
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CD, Cassette
Producer to Spin into Share Co. |
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Sheba Systems Plc, producer of cassettes and compact
discs in Ethiopia, will launch its move to transform
the company to a share company on Sunday, December
6, 2009. |
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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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