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Heavy Trucks to Dock at Djibouti

The first batch of 300 semi-trailers and dump trucks the federal government bought from China are expected to arrive at the Port of Djibouti on Tuesday, April 15, sources active in the maritime sector disclosed.

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Zemen Bank Eyes Abyssinia’s Departing Vice President

The main promoters of Zemen Bank, a company under formation to enter the banking sector, are in hot pursuit to recruit one of the two vice ....

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Horticulture Entity Eyes Ethio-Korea Farm

Sher-Ethiopia, the largest flower farm in Ethiopia, has revealed its interest to acquire a portion of the former Ethio-Korean farm in Meki town ....

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Agenda    

Two weeks ago, EEPCo announced that it has begun rationing electricity all over the

 
   

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Editor's Note  

In Africa, as in much of the developing world, the administrations of ...

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

With more private banks joining Ethiopia’ financial sector, the issue of introducing regulatory frameworks and the ability to enforce them by the regulatory agency has indeed become very controversial. Suffice a stringent bill authored by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) to revise

   

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Flu or Hypertension?

Stifled by a runaway inflation whose year-on-year average picked to 22.9pc this month, what ails Ethiopia’s economy has been a subject of fierce debate in parliament last week. Tamrat G. Giorgis and Endale Assefa, Fortune Staff Writers, and Tesfalem Waldyes, Special to Fortune, have followed the parliamentary discourse and the mixed public reaction that has....Read More

 
VERBATIM    
 

“Democracy in Ethiopia is stillborn. It is not active now.”

Bulcha Demeksa, chairman of the Oromo Federals Democratic Movement (OFDM) quoted by the Associated Press (AP) last week, complaining about intimidation and irregularities during the run-up to today’s local elections.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FEATURE-The Grim Face of Drought

 

Three days after Prime Minister Meles Zenawi had a showdown, on March 18, with his Parliamentary political rivals over their allegations of neglect of the drought in the eastern and southern parts of the country, when delivering his half-year.... Read More

FEATURE-Fertiliser Purchases Drop Following Rainfall Scarcity

 

A native of the Gerar Jarso Wereda in the North Shoa Zone of the Oromia Regional State, Mekete Debalke is a farmer who sweats to support his extended family of nine. Cultivating wheat, sorghum, barley, pea and teff on his eight hectare plot of land, .... Read More

 
 
View Point

The government should grab the food market by the horns and wrestle it to the ground, though seems reluctant to directly intervene. Alternatively, the state should at least.....

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Life Matters
 

I spoke on the subject of restoration architecture last week, although I am neither a connoisseur nor a practitioner in the field.

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View From Arada
 

At the time of writing this article we were having some showers of  light rain, much to the relief of ....

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