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Djibouti Grants Monopoly on Part of Port
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crisis is looming between Ethiopian authorities and
their counterparts in Djibouti, following a new
directive that is deemed to have given a
monopolistic position to an alliance of private
companies on the operation of stripping, stuffing,
and unstuffing of containers.
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Gov’t Begins Cargo Delivery at Modjo, Semera
to Private Importers |
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Authorities at the Revenues and Customs Authority
instructed on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, all
agencies operating inside the newly built dry ports
at Modjo and Semera to begin delivering containers
imported by private ... |
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Ayat Awaits 12 Days for New Court Date |
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The court has adjourned the lawsuit on the Ayat Real
Estate case to April 27, 2010, to give defence
lawyers time to prepare their responses to the ... |
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Pakistani Consulting Firm Offers Lowest Price
in Habesha Cement Bid |
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Pakistani consulting firm, CemenTec, has become the
most competitive contender to claim the contract to
supervise the construction of a cement ... |
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Somali’s 2.7m Voters Bring Nat’l Count to 32m |
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The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE)
disclosed an additional 2,755,453 registered voters
from the Somali Regional State, universities ... |
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The used car market has hit a dry spell recently.
Sales have become sparse... |
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Editor's Note |
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The election battle is materialising and
moving into top gear; although.... |
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Economic
Commentary |
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British Prime Minister Gordon
Brown promotes it as a vehicle for creating high skill jobs. French President
Nicolas Sarkozy talks about using it to keep industrial jobs in France, the
World Bank's Chief Economist Justin Lin openly supports it to speed up
structural change in developing nations. and McKinsey advisies governments on
how to do it right. |
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Opposition politics is not a new phenomenon in the
political landscape of Ethiopia. For almost the last
two decades, people from various walks of life have
subscribed to different political thoughts. People
of various social views have different public
opinions and therefore elect the representatives who
have favourable bearing on their views and political
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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
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we see them. it is as if they came here for a picnic." |
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Beyene Petros (Prof), chairman
of the Forum for Justice and Democratic Dialogue (FJDD), an
electoral front of eight opposition parties, said when asked
during a town hall meeting in Addis Abeba, held on April 11,
2010, while commenting on the role of election observers
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At its
beginning, Addis Abeba was made up of tents and huts
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The City & Its Architectural Heritage, Addis Ababa 1886-1946 |
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The boy
came from somewhere in the Southern Nations, Nationalities,
and Peoples Regional State. He is one of the army of boys
from that part of the country who came to Addis Abeba to
clean shoes. He always took extra care of the shoes of his
clients for the same fee.
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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 ....
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Ronald
Reagan, the 40th president of the United States, was known
to have a suspicious bend on a government's place in
society. He once famously said, "Government is .. |
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Life Matters |
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There is one particular aspect of life in Addis
Abeba that can irritate one beyond measure. |
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View From Arada |
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Another
wedding season has arrived in Addis with full force,
bringing the amenities of a rich culture. |
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