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, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The used car market has hit a dry spell recently. Sales have become sparse and customers expect to pay less writes MIKIAS SEBSIBE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER. This fall in demand, however, has not affected the new car market, and some people in the used car business remain baffled as to when there will be an upturn in their market. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300For reasons that are obvious, the current electoral engagement is haunted by the memories and trauma of the national elections in 2005. An overconfident incumbent whose desire was to win an election fair and square, in a bid to claim a legitimate government, had relaxed its grip on electoral campaigns in an unprecedented manner. It unfortunately led to the post electoral violence that regrettably claimed the lives of nearly 200 people. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Ethiopia’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. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300It 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. Yared Haile-Meskel, (yarhm@aol.com), materials development engineer for a multinational automotive and defence manufacturer in the United Kingdom (UK), sees Orange bringing a fresh perspective and thoughts, in order to induce cultural change at the state telecom monopoly. He argues, however, from a subscriber's perspective, that the benefits depend on the vision the Ethiopian Government has for the ETC. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300In spite of where this column is going, I have to do the right thing and begin the piece with a little appreciation for the leaps and bounds that we all, as individuals and as a nation, have crossed and jumped in the last twenty years. Ethiopia is a very, very different place from the country that many of us grew up in. Though we may not like where we are and continue to yearn for more, it is still a heck of a place to be. http://www.addisfortune.com/lifematters.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300That the democratic political system is increasingly being embraced by many countries and people of the world is only part of this story. That this political system is the most complicated and difficult one, recognised and accepted by advanced countries and people who have lived with it for centuries, is the other part of the same story. Some, including our own country, have barely started to exercise this political system as their form of government. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Hawassa has grown from a dispersed collection of huts to a major regional capital and vacation town. All of this has happened in the last 50 years with the majority of it occurring in just the last ten. One of the main reasons for this has been its modern master plan. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300If 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 the Revolutionary Democrats' record on this with that of the Imperial regime of Haile Selassie and the military Marxist junta of Mengistu Hailemariam (Col), each of which he said had five different foreign ministers. http://www.MyWebSite.com/item.htmlMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300