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Heavy Machinery at 84tn Lugged in for Chinese Cement Factory

Machinery weighing a total of 84tn was delivered last Wednesday, April 8, 2010, for the cement factory, which Jiangsu Qiyan Investment group...

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Deposit at 20pc Required for Land Negotiation

The Addis Abeba City administration pushed by five percentage points the amount of money that is to be placed in blocked account as a requirement for investors to negotiate land lease.

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Civil Service College Ekes Less out of Nat’l Eng in Court

National Engineers and Contractors Enterprise (NECE) lost a court battle to Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC) for the breach of the construction ...

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Revenue Authority Vies with Ayat Real Estate

Formal charges against Ayat Real Estate, its general manager Ayalew Tessema, and employees were made on April 7, 2010, for alleged tax evasion, illegal banking, unauthorised use of imported cars, and money laundering ...

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Supreme Court Pauses ZTE Court Recording Equipment Launch

The Federal Supreme Court postponed the launching ceremony of the live trial and recording system, which is a gift from Zhong-Xing Telecommunication Equipment (ZTE).

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Agenda    

The used car market has hit a dry spell recently. Sales have become sparse...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

For reasons that are obvious, the current electoral engagement is haunted...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

It appears that the Ethiopian Government is about to outsource the management of the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) to France Telecom (Orange). What Orange is going to do and to what extent it is going to get involved in the ETC's operations is not known.

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Opinion  

Ethiopia’s multicultural federation has existed for almost a decade and a half. For a society that has experienced monarchic absolutism and military or communist totalitarianism heretofore, the creation and maintenance of the controversial federal system established in the 1990s is in and of itself no small achievement.

   

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If Yacob Likie, top lieutenant of the All Ethiopia Unity Organisation's (AEUO's) Hailu Shawel, was baffled due at the fact that Ethiopia has had only one foreign minister over the past nearly 19 years, he ought to be spared from blame. During the electoral debate held last Friday, on foreign policy issues, he compared....

   

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"The debates of the 2005 national elections had many mistakes."

Sekoture Getachew, external and public relations head of the Ethiopian Peoples' Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), said in an interview with the Amharic biweekly Addis Lisan on Wednesday, April 7, 2010. The debates in 2005 did not have a code of conduct and parties used dire remarks to persuade voters. however, this will not be repeated, he said.

Way Back When . . . 

 
 

View of Addis Ababa from the imperial palace showing the scattered aspect of the settlement (c. 1895)

Source: The City & Its Architectural Heritage, Addis Ababa 1886-1946

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

INTERVIEW-Federations Flourish, Diversify

 
 

The Forum of Federations is an NGO based in Canada and established 10 years ago. It is supported by nine governments, including the Ethiopian government as well as Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Germany,  Find out More

 
 
Electoral Punch- Democracy on Magic Carpet
 
 

Come May, 2010, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) will celebrate its 19th year in power. And it has already offered the package of a multiparty system, complete with elections, as a gift to ....More

 
 

FEATURE -Africa’s Oldest Park in Addis Abeba’s Backyard

 
 

Passed up by the tour operators, Africa’s oldest park lies within Addis Abeba’s own backyard, on the backside of one of the mountains that rings the capital city, writes Hans Larson, Special to Fortune. This park has an enticing natural forest, a .... More

 
 
 
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View Point

That the democratic political system is increasingly being embraced by many countries and people of the world is only part of this story.

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Life Matters
 

In spite of where this column is going, I have to do the right thing and begin the piece with ...

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View From Arada
 

Hawassa has grown from a dispersed collection of huts to a major regional capital and vacation town.

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