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Inter Global to Explore for Oil in Northeast

An oil exploration request from Texas-based Inter Global Technologies in northeastern Ethiopia has been tabled to the Council of Ministers two weeks ago after a series of negotiations between the company and the Ministry ...

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Passing of Advisor Postpones Signing of Wonji-Shoa Agreement

The sudden death of Gaweri Parsad, chief technical advisor of JP Mukherji & Associated Pvt Ltd, postponed the Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) contract that was to be signed between Wonji-Shoa and UTTAM, an Indian-based company, on Thursday.

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Walia Bus Gets Maintenance Contract for New Chinese Buses

The state-owned Walia Intercity Bus Service Enterprise has been selected to carry out after sales maintenance of the 500 mid-sized buses procured from...

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Ministry Instructs Oil Companies to Supply Blended Fuel

The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) instructed the six oil supplying companies operating in Ethiopia to supply blended oil in Addis Abeba signing a throughput agreement with Nile Petroleum Co.

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Agenda    

The rush for land in Addis Abeba has created frenzy amongst investors...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

It is hard not to criticise the state telecom monopoly and a government that

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Forget MIT. Hello, Tsing Hua University. For Clothilde Tingiri, a hot young programmer at Rwanda’s top software company, dreams of Beijing, not Cambridge, animate her ambitions. Desperate for more education, this fall she plans to attend graduate school for

   

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THE YEAR IN BRIEF

The year 2007 brought in the new Ethiopian Millennium and an accompanying tide of mixed economic indicators for the business community. With all the hype generated by the Millennium Secretariat Office's public relations campaign, Ethiopia's image as a unique country with deeply embedded traditions intermingled with its portrayal as an investment environment that .... 2007 In Brief

 
ARCHIVE-ECONOMIC COMMENTARY

Making the Mini-Boom Last

 

Addisu Tadesse, an Ethiopian residing in the United Kingdom (UK) and working as a research and development engineer for a multinational company, has a very positive impression of Ethiopia’s .... Read More

ARCHIVE-NEWS

Dire Dawa to Construct Walls, Bridges as Flood Protection

 

The Dire Dawa City Provisional Administration decided to accept the recommendations of a United Kingdom (UK)-based consulting firm and spend 217 million Br to protect the low-lying city from future floods. ... Read More

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
VERBATIM
 

First they gave away our emblem to a third party and now they gave away our party name too.

Temesgen Zewdie, member of parliament representing the Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP), as quoted by the Amharic Reporter. He was referring to the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia, which gave the legal rights over the CUDP party name to the faction lead by Ayele Chamiso. The Board also had given the victory emblem to the United Ethiopian Democratic Party (UEDP-Medhin) of Lidetu Ayalew.

MILLENNIUM MESSAGE
 
 
 
View Point

Much debate has transpired between the ruling and opposition parties about the presence of international observers for the upcoming local and by-elections. However, considering recent and historical trends on the continent, ...

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Life Matters
 

Being a part of Ethiopian society entails that you follow an unwritten set of communal rules ....

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View From Arada
 

Last Monday morning I was at a widely advertised dentistry down Churchill Road when I saw a man ...

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