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Oil Price Widens Ethiopia’s Balance of Trade Gap

Ethiopia’s import bill will shoot up by one billion dollars annually, claiming over a fifth of the Federal government budget, due to the soaring prices of oil in the global market, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has projected.

The price of oil climbed to an all-time high of above 135 dollars a barrel on Thursday, May 22, 2008.

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Gov't to Spend $59m to Import Wheat from SA

 

The crisis of soaring grain prices on the local market has caused Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's administration to resort to a response that he had, only two months ago, rejected as not "affordable and sustainable".

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Sunshine Real Estate Transfers Houses to Buyers

 

Sunshine Real Estate, a subsidiary company of Sunshine Construction, has transferred 166 luxury homes to buyers yesterday, May 24. The transfer included 151 ground- plus-one villas located opposite CMC, and the rest are around Gerji.

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Agenda    

Mesganu Arga, 30, was drawn from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) to...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

The overall impact of the latest series of power interruptions is not limited only....

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

Africa Day, May 25th, offers us the chance to celebrate Pan-Africanism, to take stock of our great continent and to ask ourselves what direction we are going in, writes Abdul Mohammed from Khartoum, Sudan.

   

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Opinion  

The pain caused by the global food crisis has led man people to belatedly realize that we have prioritized growing crops to feed cars instead of people. That is only a small part of the real problem.

   

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VERBATIM    
 

We have given back the land, which was occupied in 1996. This land belonged to Sudanese farmers before 1996. There is not a single individual who has been displaced at the border as is being reported by some media.

Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, in his address to members of Parliament on Wednesday, May 21, 2008, in which he denied the dislocation of farmers from the border between Ethiopia and Sudan.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Guelleh-Determined in the Face of Eritrea’s Incursion
 

Last month, Eritrean troops made an incursion into Djibouti, after they climbed over a border hill located at Ras Dumera. The initial response by Djibouti’s government was to play down the issue; contrary to international diplomatic practice, Djibouti ..... Read More

High Expectations

 

This time around, with the Revolutionary Democrats allover the council seats, except for one, it seems that Addis will witness something new. But what do Addis Abebans have to say about both the outgoing and incoming administrations?. Fortune has ..... Read More

 
 
View Point

 The media plays a crucial role in society in the dissemination of information to the public with regards to events, issues, laws and policies that prevail. This role inevitably extends ....

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Life Matters
 

As a resident of Addis Abaccceba, I am at this point disgruntled, mal-serviced and most of ...

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View From Arada
 

Although I could not watch the game on TV, I tried to listen to the FM 102.1 sport’s report on it. Just ...

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