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Lion Int’l Bank Appoints New President

Lion International Bank (LIB) appointed Daniel G. Egziabher, marketing, planning and research department director, to be the acting president on Monday, March 15, 2010, the same day it accepted the resignation of its president Meressa G. Mariam.

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Int’l Business Trafficking Share Swap Cancelled

The Federal High Court cancelled a share swapping agreement, which was deemed tantamount to international business trafficking, between Michael Kassa, one of three shareholders in Land and Sea Development Ethiopia Plc (LSDE), and Land and Sea Development Limited (LSDL), a UK company, based in the  Isle of Man, on February 8, 2010.

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Awash Int’l Bank Fires Seven of Nine over Corruption

The board of Awash International Bank has fired seven of the nine people that were allegedly involved in its letter of credit corruption case.

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New Fertilizer at Down to Earth Prices

The price of DAP will be somewhere between 600 and 700 Br per quintal, while Urea will be less than 550 Br, according to an official at Agricultural Inputs Supply Enterprise (AISE), who has been responsible for the procurement of fertilizers since 2008/09.

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Heart Centre to Construct New Hospital in Yeka District

International Cardio Vascular Medical Centre SC is to construct a hospital and training centre for heart surgeons on a 3,000sqm plot of land located in Yeka District around CMC.

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Agenda    

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has struggled to do its job over...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

Ethiopia is indeed a land of paradox. Look at, for instance, how its political parties ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Subscribers 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..

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Opinion  

I 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.

   

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  Gossip  
 

A 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 ..

   

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Radar  
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"We want to ensure that we can have a dialogue with Ethiopia on critical issues concerning economic development, democracy, and human rights and we want all of these areas to be as significant, as important, and as good as that security relationship is."

 Jonnie Carson, US assistant secretary of state for African affairs, said this in an interview with All Africa Global Media, on February 28, 2010, after his trip to Ethiopia. A more balanced, broad based, and comprehensive relationship with Ethiopia is a priority, he said. 

New Building, Old World Charm

 
 

The design of this building is inspired by old European structures. The owner, Ashebir         Wondimsisha; the architetcts: Alebel Mekuria,      Kenimos Tesfaye and Million Samuel, had to actually travel to . ......More

 

The Succession Business

 
 

The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Fronts (EPRDF) nine central committee members who will not run in the election, as announced by the party two weeks ago, will .........More

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

E  L  E  C  T  I  O  N  2010

 
 

At last, the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) officially ended the registration of parties running in the May 2010 election on February 22, 2010. The registration of voters ended the same day. Find out More

 
Electoral Punch/Welcoming God into Election
 
 

Maybe it is not as jaw dropping as a Revolutionary Democrat becoming a committed follower of Jesus Christ. Repentance may be an affair between the repentant soul and its creator. But the public, too, is a sort of a deity, albeit largely powerless, and it wants to do its own forgiving.....More

 

THE VETERANS ARE LEAVING!

 
 
 

Many veterans of the Revolutionary Democrats, particularly the senior leaders from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Amhara National Democratic Movement (ANDM), have not been enlisted to run for either the regional councils or the Federal Parliament.

 
 
 
 
 
View Point

Women 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 ...

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Life Matters
 

The politics of our land is upon us in full force with the campaigns of the various political ....

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View From Arada
 

A trip around town, out to the suburbs of Sululta, and over to Ambo reveals different methods ....

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