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Ethiopian Migrant Workers Get Life Insurance

The Ethiopian Private Employer Agencies Association (EPEAA) made an agreement with the Ethiopian Insurance Corporation (EIC) last week on December 20, 2007 to insure tens of thousands of people, mostly women, ....

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Get Payments Or Get Busy Auctioning, Government Tells State Bank

The Public Financial Enterprises Agency (PFEA), the government agency supervising state-owned financial institutions, has decided that the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) needs to be more aggressive to recover bad loans ...

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Export Horticulturalists Negotiate Expansion Hurdles with the Government

Minister of Trade and Industry (MoTI) Girma Birru last week concluded a three-day visit to export farms in the Oromia Regional State, where he was told by horticulturalists – who grow flowers and berries – that the industry needs ...

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Abyssinia Disappoints Shareholders with Decline in Profit

Bank of Abyssina reported a net profit of 66.3 mln Br in the 2006/7 fiscal year, enabling the Bank to pay its shareholders nearly 50 mln Br in dividends, close to double what it had paid the previous year.

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Addis Abeba has reached a crossroad, and it's stuck there, in a traffic jam. The .

 
   

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For any casual observer of the latest public appearance by

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

The world is still playing a blame game when it comes to addressing the causes of climate change and its environmental consequences. Poorer countries point to fossil fuel consumption by Western nations and say the biggest polluters should shoulder ...

   

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Rice Leads Calls for Inclusiveness
 

The 69-year-old was given a promise of unwavering support by the United States (US) Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice (PhD), who came to Addis Abeba on December 5, to hold discussions with heads of states of the Great Lakes region on security concerns.... Read More


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For six years, Ethiopia has been conducting a massive campaign to give farmers certificates to the land they and their families have worked, in some cases, for generations. The certificates are part of a....Read More

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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"If you dedicate too much of your energy to eliminate corruption, you would have too much collateral damage as we tend to it in Ethiopia. I'm not supporting corruption, however."


Ermias T. Amelga, chief promoter of Access Bank, lately renamed as Zemen Bank, speaking at the UNECA on December 15, 2007, addressing an audience invited to discuss the possibility of Ethiopia joining the ranks of middle-income countries in 20 years. The meeting was organised by Envisioning Ethiopia, a local forum for national dialogue.

 
 
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Ethiopia and Cuba may be separated by thousands of miles, but the countries' histories have remained closely aligned. As Cuba struggled against tyranny in the Caribbean,

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Life Matters
 

When I first begin to re-familiarize myself with living in Ethiopia, there were comparisons that I could not help but make.

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View From Arada
 

"When people get wealthier, they start knowing food and make variations in their consumption pattern," said a friend of mine when...

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