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, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300 The Administration of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi has been confronted with the task of keeping inflation at bay, once recorded to have an historic high of nearly 40pc. The administration has been struggling over the past two years to place inflationary expectations completely out of the economic system. Belated recognising of the inflation was a monetary phenomenon. It took policy measures such as reducing the growth in money supply, which sapped liquidity out of the market. There is an outstanding limitation on borrowing, following the Central Bank's imposition of a cap on the ability of the nation's banks to lend. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300New machinery is to be installed for the second 1.7 billion Br plant which the Mesobe Cement Factory constructed beside the existing factory on the outskirts of Mekele, the seat of the Tigray Regional Government. http://www.addisfortune.com/Messobe’s Second Factory to Set up New Machinery .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Local meat exporters that had received an order to deliver processed meat to 40 Islamic countries as part of Saudi Arabian aid to the poor are complaining that they have lost more than half of the market due to the failure of the logistics company that was hired to facilitate the work. http://www.addisfortune.com/Logistics Co. Fouls up Eid Deliveries .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) is working on a document for the establishment of an agency for the management of land. http://www.addisfortune.com/Seat for Land Management .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Kersa main branch of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO), adjacent to the Development Bank of Ethiopia, became a victim of a robbery on Sunday morning, December 6, 2009 at around four o’clock in the morning. http://www.addisfortune.com/Bank Robbery in Wee Morning Hours .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Residents of Shekisso Woreda, where MIDROC Gold is mining used to mine, protested in a demonstration on Friday, December 4, 2009. The demonstration arose due to the company's move from Lega Dembi to the Sakaro site to open another mine accusing that it had not constructed roads, schools, bridges and clinics for the community during its 12-year operation in the area. This was compounded by another demonstration in Addis Abeba organised by students of Addis Abeba University on Monday, December 7, 2009, who submitted a similar complaint to the office of the Oromo People's Democratic Organisation (OPDO), a member of the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF). http://www.addisfortune.com/Locals Near Mine Want MIDROC's Help .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Federal First Instance courts of the Arada and Pawlos areas’ criminal benches passed a verdict of 5,000 to 9,000 Br in fines, last week, against 81 defendants accused of illegal trading of wildlife products. http://www.addisfortune.com/Courts Ambush Illegal Wildlife-products’ Traders.htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Dalol Oil S.C., which is still under formation, and Wadi Al Sundus (WAS) Petroleum Ethiopia, a Sudanese Oil Company established in Ethiopia are to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on December 16, 2009. The agreement is to enable the latter to buy up to 30pc in shares from Dalol.http://www.addisfortune.com/Dalol, Sudanese Oil Co. to Sign MoU .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Ministry of Health (MoH) has so far secured 245 million dollars out of the total 1.1 billion dollars it needed to eradicate malaria from the country by 2015, for which the optimism is high. http://www.addisfortune.com/Health Ministry Gets 245m for Battle against Malaria .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The meat exporters could go back to the Prime Minister’s Office who prompted the meeting by expressing his dissatisfaction over poor export performance at the monthly meeting of the National Export Coordination Committee. http://www.addisfortune.com/Meeting over Low Meat Export Draws Blood .htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300