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Financial Employees Finally Get Pay Raise

The belated salary adjustment for employees of state financial institutions has finally arrived. The Public Financial Enterprises Agency (PFEA) approved a 30-50pc salary increase for these institutions it supervises.

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Probe on Gilded Gold Lands 19 Suspects in Jail

With the arrest of a senior official from the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), the number of suspects under police custody in relation to investigations on alleged gilded gold sold to the central bank has reached 19.

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EPRDF to Construct Headquarters, Training Centre

The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), the ruling political coalition, is to construct a seven-storey headquarters and a training centre with a projected cost of 120 million Br. The headquarters is expected to lie on a 4,330sqm plot in Arat Kilo, off the road from the Parliament ...

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Country Trading to Assemble AKIRA TVs

Country Trading Plc, sole importer and distributor of AKIRA TV sets, is to become the second company to assemble televisions locally. The company has installed an assembly plant in Nifas Silk Lafto District on a 35,000sqm plot around...

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Agenda    

World grain markets are in chaos. Wheat prices have reached all-time highs follow..

 
   

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Editor's Note  

As the over one billion dollar campaign for the most powerful ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Inflation is not just an Ethiopian phenomenon, though the rising prices all around are painful to the point of believing it is here that people suffer the most. While much of the world is struggling to cope, there are a few basic rules of thumb that can guide..

   

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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

 
VERBATIM    
 

"Compromise was necessary for the survival of this country."

Former United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan said that the power sharing deal between Raila Odinga and Mwai Kibaki that created a new Prime Minister position was just a first step to national reconciliation that must encompass Kenya’s entire populace.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INTERVIEW-Djibouti’s President, Ismail Omar Guelleh
 

I expect justice to be rendered, by transferring to us the prosecution briefs of the “Borrel Case”. When great powers sign a treaty with small countries, they have this appalling tendency of forgetting... Read More

ANALYSIS-Change in the Air

 

As the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) becomes reality, ELENI ZAUDE GABRE-MADHIN (PhD), chief of party for the Exchange Project, reflects on what it takes to build an exchange and where her efforts are in the development of Ethiopia’s first of.... Read More

 
 
View Point

The phoney gold scandal at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has left many damaged reputations in its wake. Talk that has gripped the capital and the media leaves the credibility of the people and institutions involved in.....

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Life Matters
 

Like many thousands of other procrastinators in the city, I chose to wait until the last minute to renew my inspection tags at ...

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View From Arada
 

To many, Ethiopia stands out from the rest of African countries for a unique history free from colonisation. But one of the

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