http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Get the Latest Business News from Ethiopia- The Largest English Weekly in the Nation! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has struggled to do its job over the years. Now one of its main tasks has been given away to six other government ministries. Experts at the EPA are worried that these ministries will put their main objectives before the concerns of any environmental impact assessment they carry out on their own, reports WUDINEH ZENEBE, SPECIAL TO FORTUNE. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300Ethiopia is indeed a land of paradox. Look at, for instance, how its political parties are waging the electoral battle. Where the Revolutionary Democrats were thought to have prevailed, for having a policy upper hand on the issue of federalism, they were seen losing the debate a few weeks ago. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300I am in my early 50s and not a member of any political party. However, as any Ethiopian, I observe, listen and read about Ethiopian politics. This is because no one could avoid being political. Hence, I have known Lidetu Ayalew in Ethiopian politics for the last decade. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300Subscribers of broadband services in Ethiopia have to pay close to 2,000 dollars (including connection fees) in order to get a two megabyte connection from the state monopoly, the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC). Yared Haile-Meskel, a resident in the United Kingdom (UK), pays close to 30 dollars for a three megabyte connection. He argues that subscribers are subjected to paying for the ETC's monopolistic inefficiencies. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300The politics of our land is upon us in full force with the campaigns of the various political parties beginning to gather what little more "ummph" the political environment in the country will allow. The media, including this very business publication, have begun to set their sites on what the forthcoming election means to the public at large and to the country as a whole. http://www.addisfortune.com/lifematters.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300Women all across the world share one thing in common. They occupy the bottom rung of the gender set. They fall prey to domestic abuse, rape and cultural as well as economic inequality. But it is the rural woman, who faces all manner of hardships and is overlooked by her urban sisters. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300A trip around town, out to the suburbs of Sululta, and over to Ambo reveals different methods and results for curbing pedestrian related accidents. In Addis Abeba, the new traffic safety rules have had mixed results from, the seatbelt law to the zebra crossing law, and most of this is dependent upon the participation of the public. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300A few months ahead of the national election in May 2010, the foreign office is seeing some significant movement (in terms of volume) during the past couple of days, gossip disclosed. At least 60 midlevel officers will be dispatched in the second week of April 2010 to very significant posts such as Brussels, London and Washington D.C., claims gossip. http://www.MyWebSite.com/item.htmlMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 22 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0300