http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Get the Latest Business News from Ethiopia- The Largest English Weekly in the Nation! http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The food items used to prepare a traditional Easter feast with which to break the preceding 55-day fasting period were in highest demand at the markets around the capital last week. The prices of onions, garlic, butter, oil, and different meat showed varying degrees of increase over their previous prices, writes EDEN SAHLE, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.http://www.addisfortune.com/Agenda.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300With the monetisation of global trade, banks have become icons of national power and development. The Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of America, and Deutsche Bank, the three biggest in the world with assets totalling 7.12 trillion dollars, are symbols of contemporary civilization in the United Kingdom (UK), United States (US), and Germany, respectively. http://www.addisfortune.com/fortune_editors_note.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300The global economic crisis has so strained the breath of economies that unemployment has become extensive in developed countries. With a growing number of people indebted and unemployed, as evidenced by the average Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) unemployment rate of 6.1pc, celebrations such as Thanksgiving, Halloween, and Valentine’s Day have witnessed less of a festive mood since 2008. http://www.addisfortune.com/opinion.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300Only a month short of a year ago, in May 2010, a “wind of change” began blowing down the Nile Valley, sweeping away the status quo on which Egypt’s strategy for monopoly of the Nile waters had depended for decades, writes Seifulaziz Milas (samilas02@yahoo.com), a private consultant on peace and security matters in the Horn of Africa who has worked for UN agencies in the past. http://www.addisfortune.com/ecconomic_commentary.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300It may sound unbelievable, but imagine for a second that the EPRDF dominated legislative body acted against the wishes of the party’s executive. In most cases, they are two sides of the same coin. Truly, this happened last October, when a bill on the reestablishment of ministerial offices was adopted by Parliament. http://www.addisfortune.com/Viewpoint.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300Merkato is changing; what used to be Africa’s largest open air market is moving under roof, making the market decisively less open air. The demolition and construction works are seemingly making a larger contribution to the chaos of the lively marketplace than is seasonal shopping for Easter festivities. http://www.addisfortune.com/View_From_Arada.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300People in the administration of the EPRDF government, the highest order as it appears, are in a tug of war with major importers of basic commodities, gossip disclosed. For sometime now, they have been playing a cat and mouse game with an obvious distinction between who represents which animal. http://www.addisfortune.com/fine_line.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300Out and Abouthttp://www.addisfortune.com/Out_and_About.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300Find out about all the Entertainment news From Addis Fortunehttp://www.addisfortune.com/Fortune_Entertainment_news.htmSun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:00 +0300