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, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300 Only three bodies among the eight flight crews, one of whom has not so far been named, who were aboard ET409 which crashed immediately after taking off on its fatal flight from Beirut to Addis Abeba were delivered Sunday, February 14, 2010, at the Bole International Airport after identification was carried out through DNA testing and clearance granted by Lebanese authorities. An Ethiopian delegation of 14 members, including medical, technical and engineering professionals as well as eight people from Blake Emergency Services of London were involved in the identification. However, the coffins for the bodies of Gelila Gedion, lead cabin crew, Nesanet Yifru, cabin crew (cc) and Seble Gebretsadik, cc, were joined by three empty coffins for the unfound bodies of two other cabin crews, Helen Addise and Seblewnegel Seyoum, lead CC, and co-pilot Alula Tamrat, whose families had agreed for a remembrance to be held for them along with three of their friends. Also remembered were nine passengers, for whom there was only one silver coffin.http://www.addisfortune.com/index .htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Gilgel Gibe II had lit hopes of consistent electric power production in Ethiopia since it started production four months ago. Eight days after an elaborate inauguration on January 13, 2010, on which the pride and glory of the stakeholders involved was paraded all over the project site and on the airwaves, however, disaster struck. The plant encountered technical difficulties that would halt power production on January 24. Little has been unravelled of the foggy incident that involved a tunnel ceiling cave-in on a 15 metre portion of the 26km tunnel. In the midst of a jumble of issues that still face the team of experts, including the issue of who is responsible for covering the costs, a group of experts and officials including (from left to right) Abdul Hakim Mohammed, process executive officer for Generation Construction at EEPCo; Miheret Debebe, CEO of EEPCo; Alemayehu Tegenu, minister of Mines and Energy; and Eugene Zopis, project manager at Salini, listen to Christopher Douglas, representative of ELC Electro Consult, the consultant for the project, during a belated press conference at which time the officials opened up to the public for the first time. PLEASE SEE THE FULL STORY http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Architects of Ethiopia’s budget will, for the first time, change the formula they employ to author the Federal Government’s budget for the coming fiscal year. They will no longer accept from ministries’ and agencies’ budget proposals based on line items as has been the case in the past. The budget will be based on programmes, sources disclosed to Fortune. http://www.addisfortune.com/Feds to Change Federal Budget Formula .htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) is to take yet another loan at 1.4 billion Br from the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) in its bid to fulfil its lending commitments, estimated to reach over three billion Birr, which are approved for a series of companies, including some in the export sector. http://www.addisfortune.com/Capital Starved DBE Gets 1.4b Br CBE Loan .htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Kuma Demeksa’s debt ridden Addis Abeba City Administration is to wallow still deeper into debt, following the authorisation of a further 250 million Br bond sold to the state owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE). http://www.addisfortune.com/City Drudges Deeper into Debt.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300International election observer organisations invited by the Government of Ethiopia for the upcoming elections in May 2010 have started making preparations to send their election observers here. http://www.addisfortune.com/European Election Observers to Arrive This Week .htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has requested a staggering 166 billion Br for road construction in the next five years, nearly 350pc of the budget it has had for the five-year plan which will expire by the end of this fiscal year. http://www.addisfortune.com/Staggering 166b Br Requested for Road Sector.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba City Administration took away plots of land already given to athletes Gete Wami and Sileshi Sehen and gave them to the Embassy of Saudi Arabia. http://www.addisfortune.com/Athletes Lose Land to Saudi Embassy.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority’s (ERCA) head office is moving in two months from the rented building at Beklo Bet in the Kirkos District to its new facilities around Meganegna in the Bole District.http://www.addisfortune.com/New Home for Revenue, Customs Authority.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Issuing plans to landholders in the city had been prohibited by Kuma’s administration soon after it took over from the caretaker administration in May 2008. The various directives that had been issued by the administrations that preceded it had made it difficult to deliver speedy and just service, the administration said, at the time. That led to the preparation of the draft directive which was completed and delivered in April 2009. http://www.addisfortune.com/City Gov’t to Hand Landholders Plans .htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 15 Feb 2010 00:00:00 +0300