At the Age of 60 Ethiopian Re-charts its Future Course
Charting a new course at the age of 60, will one of Africa’s prominent
airlines go as far as privatisation? The idea is being floated among several
people, including development partners and Ethiopian’s own staff, discovered
Tamrat G. Giorgis, Fortune Staff Writer
The Board of
Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has issues their intake on
the management of Ethiopia's economy last week. To its credit, they have applaud
the EPRDF-led government for .....
Last week, this
newspaper published an interesting query as to when the Ethiopian
Prime Minister would leave the political scene. Interestingly enough
and with his .....
The price of oil
in Ethiopia is totally blind to the signals from the international
market. While a price of a barrel of oil doubled from 40 dollars in
two years since 2004, Ethiopia’s ....
My tall Gojame friend called Thursday afternoon to kindly give me
some information that I needed. He enquired about what I was writing
about, and I ......
You pay 3.50 dallor for a latte. The coffee farmer earns 0.60
dallors for a pound of beans that will make 30 lattes. By now, it is
a familiar story. The story less often recounted is a ....
A co-worker and I were standing at a window shooting the
breeze when we noticed, in a villa across the road, that there was a
woman carrying a young child in the traditional Ethiopian way, piggy
back style........
The
bird flu syndrome (H5N1) and the trepidation of eating
chickens or eggs had stolen the limelight of public attention from
the Holiday celebrations of Easter without eating roosters. A few
days after the holidays, however, people have returned to feasting
on roosters and eggs and undermined the disturbing news associated
with the deadly pandemic virus.
The celebration
of Ethiopian Patriots Victory Day on Friday May 5, 2006 gave almost
every institution a second day off (the first having been
International Labour Day that was celebrated on Monday May 1, 2006)
during the last week. This was not the case with .....
