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KEEP GUESSING: SAYS MELES
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When exactly will Prime Minister Meles Zenawi leave office has
always been a subject for speculation. Although he had implied
during a CNN interview last year that he would prefer to end his
tenure at the end of this current term, he said last week we
will have to keep people guessing, “as to when you expect to be
free of me”. Neither does he seem to be interested to reveal
who, in the rank and file of the EPRDF, he would like to give
the mantle to. |
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Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, during his press
conference where members of the private press were
invited for the second time in his 14 years
tenure, has bluntly admitted to what many of his
supporters have been unhappy about: he personally
and the EPRDF were not good in communications to the
public and public relations work.
“I readily admit to the public relations weakness,”
he told journalists from both the local media
(representing alike private and state owned) and the
international corresponds.
He projected himself as a politician that has become
sober and confident, if not brief, while seeming
reserved from his trademark scoffing at others he
may not agree with. In fact, there were a number of
instances where he was quoted as saying “we respect
their views” or “she is entitled to her opinion, we
respect that”. For an understandable reason, he was
combative when it comes to Mrs. Anna Gomes issues,
whose report he found was not even worth the paper
it was written on.
Nevertheless, some viewers still see no difference
in him, but his stiffness when...... |
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Addis River Basins
to Go Green |
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The Addis Abeba
City Administration’s Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) will
begin a 24 million Br rehabilitation project of river and tributary
beds across the city. The funds for the project, given by the City
Administration, were approved in February 2006.
The project is
expected to rehabilitate 1,090ht of riverbeds and 1,060ht of
tributary beds. The rehabilitation will include soil and plant
conservation in these areas and is expected to be completed in three
to five years.
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Oil
Companies Ring Alarm on Slashed Jet Fuel Reserve |
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The two
international oil companies active in Ethiopia, Shell and TOTAL,
have warned officials at the Ethiopian Airlines’ that the level of
JAT A-1 (jet fuel) in their respective reserves have slashed to a
level where they should issue NOTA. It is a form of alert they are
obliged to issue whenever the reserve gets lower than half of what
they are required to keep.
“The reserve is
dwindling since the past weeks,” said the NOTA they issued in
mid-April 2006.
The Ethiopian
Airlines consumes an annual 140 million liters of oil from the
333,079mtn (including kerosene) the country imported last year, for
instance. Close to 60pc of these is supplied by Shell Ethiopia,
while the balance is covered by TOTAL. Ethiopian Airlines spends 600
million Br to cover its oil bills.
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