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, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The market for day labourers, in Addis Abeba, has matched the construction industry’s growth trajectory fuelled by expanding entrepreneurial, industrial and civic needs of the nation. From the rising and falling of daily wages bartered in the morning to the uncertainty of a daily labourer’s next wage, HALETA YIRGA, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, takes a deeper look and uncovers the hand that providence plays and the injustices that plight these labourers who have a story to tell.http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The appointment of the new directors, including Daba Debele, head the Capacity Building Bureau of the Addis Abeba City Administration; Degu Lakew, head of the Government Accounts Sub-processes at the Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED); and Alemnesh Worku, Civil Service Bureau head at the Ministry of Capacity Building, followed the appointment of Muktar Kedir, Secretary of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), as chairman of the board on December 11, 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/Three Join EIC Board.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Home Garden Project, which has undertaken a study to identify certain products to be branded and promoted by place of origin, is expecting an extension beyond its envisaged termination at the end of 2010, because of a delay in the ratification of the Geographical Indication Bill, which would carryout the implementation. http://www.addisfortune.com/Branding Products by Origin Extended .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The management of the Dashen Bank and the Federation of Banking and Insurance Trade Unions of Ethiopia together with the founders of the disputed labour union of the bank have met on Monday, January 4, 2010, agreeing to keep the union going on. http://www.addisfortune.com/Dashen Bank’s Duelling Labour Unions .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Ethiopia has been ranked the 28th best place in Africa to live according to the Quality Life Index (QLI) ranking for the year 2010 by the magazine International Living (IL); its international ranking was 163 out of the 194 countries surveyed. http://www.addisfortune.com/Ethiopia Ranked 28nd out of 51 African Nations.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300IFAD offered the loan, in June 2009, to tackle land degradation through sustainable land management including undertaking soil and water conservation activities around Lake Tana in the Amhara Regional State. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t Approves $13.2m Loan .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Fantale integrated irrigation project, which could help the Kereyu pastoralists to settle, is to be inaugurated on January 25, 2010. http://www.addisfortune.com/Awash Irrigation to Help Pastoralists Settle.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Sunshine Construction Plc will begin the construction of two schools this month in Agana and Axum towns, in the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples (SNNP) and Tigray regional states at a total cost of 15 million Br. http://www.addisfortune.com/Sunshine to Construct Agana, Axum Schools .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba Lease Board, chaired by Mayor Kuma Demeksa, blamed city administrations since Ali Abdo's mayoralty for the 12-year delay of the construction of Mohammed Ali Al-Amoudi's Huda Real Estate Towers, and gave the company the green ligth to keep the land and proceed with construction. http://www.addisfortune.com/Habesha Breweries Cheers at 50,000sqm .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300The gtz International Service (gtz IS) is to hold a photographic exhibition of the works it has undertaken for the government under the University Capacity Building Program (UCBP) on Monday, January 11, 2010, at the Goethe Institute in the Addis Abeba University Faculty of Business and Economics. http://www.addisfortune.com/gtz Exhibits 13 University Projects .htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0300