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Gov't Slights EU Election Preliminary Report |
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The Government Communication Affairs Office labelled
the preliminary report of the EU Observation
Mission, which came out on May 25, 2010, as a
political interpretation of basic facts. |
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EU, AU Report Election Problems with
Conflicting Analyses |
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The African Union (AU) and European Union (EU)
presented their preliminary reports of the 2010
National Elections of Ethiopia last week, in which
the former reported a free and fair election and the
latter a process with an uneven playing field.
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AEUP Lists 11 Reasons for Re-election |
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The All Ethiopian Unity Party (AEUP) rejected the
National Electoral Board of Ethiopia’s (NEBE’s)
announcement and insisted for both national and
regional re-elections. |
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“The most important reason
[to
reach out to the opposition is] the
extraordinary attitude of Ethiopians who
voted for the opposition.PLEASE
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“For a party that is not in Parliament, what
does this consultation mean? Is it as
advisors or is this a [power] sharing
government?
PLEASE SEE FULL INTERVIEW |
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| Agenda |
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The incumbent won more seats in Parliament than it
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Editor's Note |
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There currently
appears to be a start to an era where
Melesism is creeping |
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Economic
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The
events of last week were mesmerising. An incumbent win with 99pc votes in its
favour appears to be too good to be true. Beyond the rhetorical debate on
whether or not this election was free and fair, pundits are scrambling to figure
out what they should attribute to how voters acted. It is both the hard work of
the incumbent over the past five years and the failure of the opposition to
present itself as a viable alternative, Getachew T. Alemu, a regular contributor
to this publication, says. |
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Every country, rich and
poor, should ensure universal coverage of primary
healthcare, including safe childbirth, nutrition,
vaccines, malaria control, and clinical services.
Each year, nearly nine million children die of
conditions that could be prevented or treated, and
nearly 400,000 women die because... |
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Now that the
Revolutionary Democrats are awash with electoral
gains, as much in a windfall as they had said it was
for the opposition in 2005, what is to come is a
fight amongst each
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"We
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Ayele Chamiso, chairman of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy
(CUD), said this when asked about the effect of the Electoral
Code of Conduct in an interview with Addis Zemen published on
May 9, 2010. |
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Interview-Government’s Role in Rolling Economy |
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Following the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic
Front’s (EPRDF’s) victory at the polls, the incumbent has a
new lease on politics in the nation to continue its economic
policies. MIKIAS SEBSIBE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, spoke with
Girma Birru, minister of Trade and Industry (MoTI) about the
government’s interpretation of Ethiopia’s....
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Electoral Punch-
The House of the Living Dead |
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Sometimes a columnist’s problem is to decide when the big
guys will say, “This is too much.” Taking great caution with
the choice of words, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, when he
spoke to the ecstatic crowd last Tuesday, May 25, 2010,
knowingly veered from the truth, which he himself must have
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View Point |
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How about campaign
promises such as these, “Vote for us as we will open
10 new FM radio stations all dedicated to hip-hop.
All the English Premier League matches will be
televised free on all of .... |
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Life Matters |
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It would be foolish to
pass up yet another opportunity this year to write
about the contemporary history .... |
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View From Arada |
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A taxi passenger is expected to
pay 95 cents for a short shuttle. In practice, however, they
have two options to settle accounts. |
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