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Minister “Encourages” Private Importers to Go Multimodal

The Minister of Communications and Transportation (MoCT), Driba Kuma, has encouraged the private sector to use the multimodal transportation ....

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Tena Kebede, Three Others Head to Jail

Tena Kebede, owner and CEO of TK International Plc, and three others were sent to jail to serve two years after the Federal High Court lifted the suspension of the execution of the sentence that the Federal ...

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NBE Directive to Scrutinise Bank VIPs

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued draft directives which amend the old bank licensing directive, restricts persons with significant influence, and allows for the introduction of interest free banking.

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Cassations Confirms Amhara Court’s Copyright Conviction

Members of the Audiovisual Producers Association broke down in tears following the ruling of the Cassations Bench to uphold the ruling of the Amhara Supreme Court, which had found Zelalem Fisseha guilty of ...

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Fed. Auditor Gen. Surprises MPs with Five-year Review

A five-year strategic review was presented by the office of the Federal Auditor General to Parliament on Tuesday, June 15, 2010, instead of the ...

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Ethiopia’s Petrol Reserve Falls to 13 Days

Ethiopia’s petroleum reserve fell to a worrying 87,000 cubic metres, or only 13 days of supply, down from 130,000 cubic metres in 2005/06.

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Agenda    

Before the nationalisation of urban land in 1975, both urban and rural

 
   

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Editor's Note  

It was not the first time for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s party to...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

There is an ongoing debate among global policymakers about when and how fast to exit from the strong monetary and fiscal stimulus that prevented the Great Recession of 2008/09 from turning into a new Great Depression. Germany and the European Central Bank (ECB) are pushing aggressively for early fiscal austerity. The United States is worried about the risks of excessively early fiscal consolidation, observes Nouriel Roubini, a professor of Economics at New York University, ...

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Opinion  

The biggest financial nightmare looming over the world economy is the insolvency of a large international bank. Be it due to a sovereign default or large losses accumulated under complacent accounting rules, the insolvency of a large bank ...

   

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  Gossip  
 

The Revolutionary Democrats seem to have overcome their collective insecurity of losing an election. It was clear that they did not want to leave anything to chance. This was despite the overwhelming position their party had in the run-up to the election, a position that finally annihilated...

   

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"We have provided a lot of evidence, but we do not understand how the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) saw it."

Merara Gudina (PhD), vice-president of Medrek, said this to answer a question raised by the Amharic daily newspaper, Addis Zemen, which appeared on June 14, 2010.  The board gave the decision without considering the claim properly, and the main question raised by Medrek was not answered, he claimed. 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Bulcha Demeksa: Eight Decades in Nutshell

 
 

A pillar in Ethiopian and African society, Bulcha Demeksa, refraining from competing in the 2010 National Elections and watching the defeat of his party along with all other opposition parties (save one member of Medrek), announced his resignation from politics. He took an interview with EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER, ..... More

 
Interview-China’s Complex View of  Africa
 
 

The increasing role of China in Africa’s infrastructure building and the management of the continent’s economy has become a subject of intense discussion not only by Africans but from people beyond the continent. China is different from the West in its strategic approach towards Africa...... More

 
 
 
 
View Point

The month of May 2010 led yet to another extraordinary episode in Ethiopia, which was the total victory of the incumbent party, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary ...

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Life Matters
 

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
 

The World Cup in South Africa has truly been a unifying force for the whole continent.

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