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, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300 The balance sheet from the climate talks held in Copenhagen, Denmark, has not been made clear. Several advocates for a multilateral deal, including Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s close friend Jeffrey Sachs (PhD) were disappointed with the outcome. They described it as a deal that was fait accompli and an empty promise for the developing world. Meles begs to differ. He argues that his bottom-line was a mixed result. Africa did not get all it wanted; however, the African negotiating team led by him, comprising 10 members, returned with neither with false hope nor empty promises. This time around, it was different, he argued during a press conference he gave on Thursday, December 24, 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is cutting one billion Birr from the budget of its other road construction projects to pay the advance needed for the construction of the six-lane expressway from Addis Abeba to Adama (Nazareth). http://www.addisfortune.com/Addis-Adama Expressway Hogs Funds .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The average annual remittance of 700 million dollars over the past three years from Ethiopians in the Diaspora is less than what was expected but an improvement from earlier remittances, Seyoum Mesfin, Foreign Affairs minister, told Parliament on Thursday, December 25, 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/Low Remittance Spurs Ministry On .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Sustainable Land Management (SLM) project of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) is expecting to see an aid inflow of 38 million dollars from Finnish and German sources in 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Germans, Fins Fund Land Sustainability .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian government is to build what could become the largest ever hydroelectric dam on the Blue Nile River off Bure town on the road to Nekemt at Bako-Ambo area in the Oromia Regional State, close to the border with Amhara. http://www.addisfortune.com/Ethiopia to Plug-in 2100MW Dam .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The construction was intended to achieve universal access to medical services. This intention was to fix a ratio of one health station for a population of 25,000 people by attaining 3,200 stations in the country. http://www.addisfortune.com/Ministry Spends Nearly 5b Br on New Health Stations .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) lifted duty fees from the importation of solar energy equipment beginning December 14, 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/Solar Duty-free, But Missing from Electricity Buy-back Bill.htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The Cooperative Bank of Oromia S.C. (CBO) saw its profits plunge to 3.6 million Br before tax in 2008/09, down from 15 million the previous year, the audit report prepared by the firm, Degefa Lemessa & Co., confirmed. http://www.addisfortune.com/Profits Down for Oromia Cooperative .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300The bill for the electoral code of conduct was passed on Tuesday, December 22, 2009, with a new article that requires parties who were not involved in the negotiation for the code to accept and sign an agreement due to be issued by a joint council formed by parties that negotiated the code and wish to be part of the council. http://www.addisfortune.com/Electoral Code Passes Parliament .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Customs officials in Jijjiga reported confiscating 6.3 million Br worth of goods in the first quarter of the 2009/10 fiscal year, 5.5 million Br worth of which were inward bound. http://www.addisfortune.com/Jijjiga Customs Seizes 6.3m Br of “Contraband” .htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0300