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Dashen Bank’s Big Profits Benefit Employees

The financial performance figures will be presented to shareholders on November 7, 2010. Following the bank’s performance last year of 352.4 million Br in profits, 109 million Br was approved for dividends at the 15th ordinary and the 13th extraordinary general assembly of the bank’s shareholders held on October 29, 2009, at Sheraton Hotel.

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Southern State Endorses 6.1b Br Budget

Hawassa (the seat of SNNP), eight special zones, and 13 regular zones are to take close to 4.3 billion Br of the total budget. About 800 million Br is to be used by regional offices and secretariat bureaus for administration work. Close to 900 million Br is to be allocated for the design and construction of roads and education and health institutions in addition to finalising the construction of the regional council building.

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Dry Port Auth. Nixes Steder’s Management Contract

The Ethiopian Dry Port Authority (EDPA) cancelled the management contract of Steder Group BV Liner Agency for Ethiopia’s first dry port facility located on the outskirts of Mojo Town, 73km east of the capital.

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Midroc Replaces Shimeles

Shimeles Eshete (Eng), the longest serving acting general manager of Midroc Construction Ethiopia Plc, was replaced on Friday, July 16, 2010, with Nigussie Abera (Eng), who has been serving as project manager in the company.

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OIB Selects Core Banking Vendor

Oromia International Bank (OIB) became the newest entrant to the list of banks in the process of installing core banking solutions by selecting Infrasoft Tech International and its local partner as its vendor on July 9, 2010.

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Agenda    

As the National Bank of Ethiopia prepares to upgrade to an...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

Tax is one of the major mechanisms that governments...

 
   

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Commentary  

The Failed Sate Index, annually conducted by the US-based Fund for Peace (FfP), measures states’ vulnerability or risk of conflict. The index’s premise that all states are prone to fail might paint a grim picture of the world, but by measuring the vulnerability of a country ....

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Opinion  

For a few minutes on July 6, 2000, time stood still for many people in South Africa, Africa and the African Diaspora.

   

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  THE FINE LINE  
 

Here it goes again; regime change in Somali Regional State, one of the half dozen over the past decade. Claiming notoriety for such political turmoil, the regional state and a few of its peers among peripheral states in

   

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"We have a nasty habit of marginalising those who disagree with us and tell it like it is."

Alemayehu G. Mariam (Prof), a fierce critic of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s administration residing in the United States, expressed his indignation in one of his blogs a couple of weeks ago, on what he described as an “Ethiopian intellectual crisis.”

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Does Relocation Spell Relief or Recede?

 
 

Elfenesh Negusse, a single mother of 40, lives in Arat Kilo, Kebele 13/17, in Arada District in a room that can hardly fit three people. The area where the house is located, Basha Wolde Chelot, behind the Ministry of Education, is set for demolition for ..... More

 

Juicing up at Addis Abeba’s Juice Bars

 
 

In what has become an iconic part of Addis Abeba’s food scene, juice bars offer a refreshing respite from the crowded, sooty streets of the capital and the stuffy office spaces of its growing business sector. Sharing a common style and decor, the only variations...... More

 
 
 
 
View Point

For the past 19 years, Ethiopia has been made to sing one tune over and over again, to the extent that every other nation in the world has tired of listening to the melody.

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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
 

There are many homeless people in the city who, in the past, had a safe haven to turn to in the church.

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