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, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300 Leaders of the incumbent EPRDF expect a landslide victory from national polls today, despite similar claims from their opponents. The Revolutionary Democrats believe today will be a day of vindication for their party which suffered a humiliating landslide defeat in Addis Abeba in the 2005 national elections, when they had lost all the 23 seats the city has in the federal parliament. Their overwhelming expectation of staging a stunning comeback is evident from the billboard size clocks watches they installed in major avenues of the city, reading 10:10, signalling full gains, although there was no official explanation. It is “fait accompli”, said a veteran member of the EPRDF, now serving in a diplomatic mission, but came home to vote. These boards put up at Meskel, Megenagna and Teklehaimanot squares are a new phenomenon to the scene of the electoral campaign in Ethiopia, and demonstrate the aggressive campaigns the ruling party has waged against its opponents in the capital. Whether or not the incumbent will have a complete victory in the capital as its leaders hope is yet to be seen; nonetheless, pundits see loss of seats in constituencies such as Bole, “French Legation”, and some weredas of Merkato, where the EPRDF suffers historical losses, is inevitable. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Before Election Day, EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, sat down with Thijs Berman, chief of the EU Election Observation Mission to Ethiopia, and interviewed him about the how the election campaigns, the electoral board, and his team’s mission were going as well as what he expected for today, Sunday, May 23, Election Day. http://www.addisfortune.com/EU Election Observation Chief on Eve of Election.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The national elections to be held in Addis Abeba today are different from those across the country. All but voters in Addis Abeba are to vote for their preferred candidates both in the regional councils and the Federal Parliament. Close to 1.2 million Addis Abebans will, however, cast their votes in 1,713 polling stations to elect 23 representatives to send to the Federal Parliament, comprising 547 seats. http://www.addisfortune.com/Vote of Confidence in EPRDF.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The distribution of seats to the federal parliamenthttp://www.addisfortune.com/The distribution of seats to the federal parliament.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Before tens of millions of registered voters are expected to cast their votes today, Sunday, May 23, 2010, Election Day, Merga Bekana, chairman of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) took time to answer questions from EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, about the preparedness of the board for the voting process and answered questions about the recent changes made to the rules governing acceptable marks on voting cards. http://www.addisfortune.com/Bring It on! Electoral Board Prepared - Chief.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300With the campaigns over since Thursday, April 27, 2010, at 6:00pm, tens of millions of voters are expected to go to the polls today, the day all the contending parties’ efforts come down to. In fact, some voters will not decide until right before they vote, while others have not been swayed by the campaigns at all, even as they participated in various events, writes MIKIAS SEBSIBE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.http://www.addisfortune.com/All Efforts Come Down to One Day, Election Day.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Nile Insurance filed the lawsuit on December 14, 2009, claiming that the coffee exporter had defaulted on a 500,000 Br premium payment. The insurer also claimed to have made a guarantee payment of over 1.1 million Br to Dashen Bank. The payment was for a loan taken by the export company, which was testified to with a collateral agreement the two sides signed on March 3, 2008. http://www.addisfortune.com/Nile Ins Wins 1-6m Br from Nile Coffee Export in Court.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Coca-Cola and Pepsi products have gone up in price significantly this month, affecting distributors, retailers, and consumers of the popular soft drinks. http://www.addisfortune.com/Drowning in Soft Drink Price Increases.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Addis Abeba Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association (AACCSA) received 2.7 million Br worth of hardware from the government of Sweden on May 19, 2010; these items will help the AACCSA in the implementation of application software for extended resource planning. http://www.addisfortune.com/Addis Chamber Welcomes Sweden’s 2.7m Br in Hardware.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is working on the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) regulation which could avail the private sector of profit making projects related to the control and trading of carbon emissions. http://www.addisfortune.com/EPA Regulation to Invite Private Sector to Carbon Trading.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300The court passed a temporary injunction order on some properties of Ayele Debela, manager and major shareholder of ADH International. http://www.addisfortune.com/Court Orders Injunction on Properties of Ayele Debela.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300All the Brief News Articles from various papershttp://www.addisfortune.com/newsinbrief.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300Get all the Previous Volums of the News paperhttp://www.addisfortune.com/Addis_ Fortune Archive.htmMon, 17 May 2010 00:00:00 +0300