http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Addisfortune is the Largest English Weekly in Ethiopia. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300 The Forum for Justice and Democratic Dialogue (FJDD), a.k.a. Medrek, was borne out of the frustration of the past political stalemate and despairing outlook of the future, attributed to the electorate’s indifference to politics following the 2005 electoral debacle. A series of talks among leaders of the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF), one of the two opposition alliances during the last national elections, have been held since 2008, in a bid to determine its future course and learn from the mistakes of its rival electoral coalition, the Coalition for Unity for Democracy (CUD). Beyene Petros (Prof), centre, began to plot the formation of a new coalition, first approaching Negasso Gidada (PhD), near right, former president of the nation under the regime of the EPRDF and now a prominent figure in the opposition and a member of Parliament. The two invited Merera Gudina (PhD), far right, for a brainstorming session at one of their residences. Thus the birth of Medrek, which is now considered by many as a main electoral challenger to the incumbent began. Later on, they brought onboard several parties and prominent politicians to their embrace, including Seyee Abraha, far left, and Bulcha Demekssa, left. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The government of Djibouti backed off, last week, from its plans to grant exclusive rights to a private consortium, which would have undertaken the operation of container stuffing and unstuffing inside its own premises, sources disclosed to Fortune. http://www.addisfortune.com/Djibouti Backs off from Proposed Operation Monopoly at Doraleh.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Charities and Societies Agency (CSA) suspended the activities of the Ethiopian Bar Association (EBA) on April 13, 2010, following a dispute over the Association’s English nomenclature. http://www.addisfortune.com/Agency Suspends Ethiopian Bar Association.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300National Engineers and Contractors Enterprise (NECE) lost a civil suit to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoARD) over a claim of nearly two million Birr; only a week ago it had lost another case to the Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC). http://www.addisfortune.com/Nat’l Eng Enterprise Loses Second Case within a week.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The government gave a 50 million Br vehicle supply contract to a Dubai company, dropping offers made by established local suppliers. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t Contracts Dubai Co. to Import Vehicles, Quick.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Consultative Forum established on Wednesday, April 14, 2010, at the Desalegn Hotel, Cape Verde Street, has a plan to sway the federal government into reconsidering the overlooked bio safety law. http://www.addisfortune.com/New Forum Seeks to Prune GMO Law.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Awash River Basin Authority of the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR), is to undergo restructuring of its Water Resource Management and Operating Department, which would split the department into two. http://www.addisfortune.com/Awash River Basin Auth. to Restructure.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Microsoft Corporation’s Windows Operating System, which dominates the computer market, officially realised the Amharic version of Office 2007 on April 22, 2010, at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Addis. The whole translation project was completed at a cost of 85,000 dollars. http://www.addisfortune.com/Amharic Microsoft Windows Office Launch.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Sugar Development Agency (ESDA) is expected to sign an agreement on Monday, April 27, 2010, with the UK based ED&F Man Sugar Limited Company for the supply of 40,000tn of sugar. http://www.addisfortune.com/Sugar Agency to Sign Sweet UK Import Deal.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) is unhappy with Ministry of Finance and Economic Development’s (MoFED) decision to award it only 10.3pc of the extra 2.9 billion Br budget the authority requested two months ago. http://www.addisfortune.com/Roads Auth. Irked with 20pc Share of Extra Budget .htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 26 Apr 2010 00:00:00 +0300