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City Officials, Residents to Discuss City’s Woes

Prior to its loss of all but one seat of the City Council to the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) in the May 2005 elections, EPRDF had been doing a lot, during its Provisional Administration under Arkebe Oqubay, to address major problems of the city, the Revolutionary Democrats say.

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24/7 Promise, Exporters Still Facing Power Cuts

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) is struggling to provide a round the clock power service to exporters that would fetch the country sizable export earnings, despite the decision made by its Board of Directors.

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Finance Minister Tables 54.3Bn Br Federal Budget Bill to Council

The Federal Government's budget will exceed, for the first time, the Five Billion dollars mark, should the Council of Ministers accepts a budget bill submitted to it last week by Sufian Ahmed, minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED). Of course, it would need to be approved by Parliament before it goes for recession.

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Agenda    

Seyoum Wolde runs a staff cafeteria on the premises of Alpha University College,...

 
   

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Editor's Note  

For many people, particularly those Ethiopian urbanities in the fixed income..

 
   

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Economic Commentary  

In view of the fact that in Africa, Ethiopia’s standing in terms of its tax collection performance is relatively low, Noah Safari considers the advantages of levying additional tax on land as an efficient means of generating revenue...

   

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Opinion  

Many poor, food-importing countries around the world have become desperate in recent months, as global prices of rice, wheat, and maize have doubled. Hundreds of millions of poor people, who already spend a large...

   

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VERBATIM    
 

. . . assuming that I will have a normal age, in three years time, you would call me ex-prime minister.

Prime Minister, Meles Zenawi, reportedly told Saleh Johar of awate.com, an Eritrean website opposed to the government of President Isaias Afeworki, during an interview held in his office on May 12, 2008. This is yet another statement the Prime Minister has made as to whether or not he will be running for office come  national elections in 2010.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
INTERVIEW-Never Dreamt of Becoming a Mayor 
 

Berhane Deressa is a man with a colossal wealth of experience as a diplomat, as a civil servant and in international organizations that spans a period of more than two decades. After two retirements, he went on to become something he had never dreamt ... Read More

ANALYSIS-Power Shortfall Bogs Down Economy

 

Despite a gap of a few percentage points, both the government and analysts from the IMF agreed that Ethiopia is to register yet another impressive growth in its GDP. But that is long before the economy began to suffer from the loss of electric power twice... Read More

 
 
View Point

Ethiopia's importation of a Marxist Leninist ideology in the 1960's has, over the years, had devastating effects on the overall development of the country. Currently,...

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Life Matters
 

I sat down during the middle of the week to write this piece, after having taken into account....

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View From Arada
 

The other day, I met an elderly man from Scotland who had come to Ethiopia ....

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