http://www.addisfortune.com/index.htm Addisfortune is the Largest English Weekly in Ethiopia.In this RSS Feed You Will find the top Stories of the week. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit RSS Feed Creator Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Prime Minister Meles Zenawi sat immersed in a discussion with Kgalema Motlanthe (right), vice president of South Africa, on the side of the Africa–India Summit that was held in Addis Abeba last week. The summit brought together leaders from 15 African countries to meet with a high-level delegation lead by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. A five billion dollar loan package was announced to be dispersed to Africa over the next three years, in addition to 700 million dollars to establish new training centres on the continent. Trade between India and Africa has risen sharply from three billion dollars in 2001, to 46 billion dollars last year. http://www.addisfortune.com/addisfortunenews.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 As of June 1, 2011, only five insurance companies in Ethiopia will be accredited to issue travel health insurance to Schengen visa holders. http://www.addisfortune.com/Only Five Insurers to Cover Schengen Travellers.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ethiopian government is to enter into negotiations with oil producing countries to import petroleum coke (pet coke) for distribution to cement factories to reduce spending foreign currency on heavy fuel oil (HFO), sources disclosed to Fortune. http://www.addisfortune.com/Gov’t Looking to Buy Pet Coke.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Ibrahim Taha, 32, who is being charged with using forged certified payment orders (CPOs) for the down payment on Hawassa Textile Factory and Arbaminch Textile to the Privatisation and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA), was granted additional time to present his witnesses. http://www.addisfortune.com/Privatisation Agency’s Alleged Fraudster Gets More Time for Defence.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Federal Supreme Court rejected Meketa Real Estate’s appeal to enter into litigation with Nib International Bank (NIB) on Thursday May 26, 2011 over a building owned by the latter which the bank wanted to auction to recall a loan. http://www.addisfortune.com/Real Estate Firm not to Enter into Litigation with Bank over Building.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ministry of Education (MoE) cancelled an international tender it had floated for the procurement of textbooks and teaching guides to give the linguistic project to regional government bureaus instead as it claimed the curriculum should be revised. http://www.addisfortune.com/Education Ministry Cancels Int’l Textbook Tender; Stays Local.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 As part of the implementation of centralised, online, real-time, electronic (CORE) banking, National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) launched its National Payment System (NPS) nationwide, on Friday, May 27, 2011, when Berhan Bank became the first bank to interface with the NPS. http://www.addisfortune.com/Berhan First Bank to Interface with Nat’l Payment System.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 Sur Construction Co is set to finish the final stage of the expansion of Axum University, for which it had been awarded a total of 264 million Br, by June 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Axum University Nears Completion Slotted for Next Month.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) plans to award the upgrading of 19.3km Kebre Mingist–Shakiso Road from gravel to asphalt to local road construction companies. http://www.addisfortune.com/Auth. Prefers Local Firms for Roads.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 CLC Industries is preparing to establish the biggest yarn factory in the country on 50ht of land in Kombolcha Industrial Zone, Amhara Regional State, which it obtained from the government lease free. http://www.addisfortune.com/Indian Firm to Open Biggest Yarn Factory.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The Ministry of Mines (MoM) signed an agreement with Ambo Gnemer Agro & Integrated Industries for the exploration and extraction of gold and raw materials for a cement factory with an investment of 15.7 million Br on Thursday, May 26, 2011. http://www.addisfortune.com/Miner to Explore for Gold with 16m Br.htm Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 +0300 The International Automotive & Industrial Engineering Trade Fair opened on Wednesday, May 25, 2011, at the Addis Abeba Exhibition Centre. 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