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GLEE-MER OF HOPE


The closing ceremony of the 14th Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit began with a word from Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves of the island state of St. Vincent and the Grenadines who addressed the Assembly on behalf of the Caribbean. Before addressing the summit, the prime minister shared a moment of laughs and embraces with Ethiopian PM Meles Zenawi. The summit did not start with smiles and embraces, however. It kicked off under shadows of discord regarding the election of a new chairman for the Union. Malawi’s President Bingu Wa Mutharika was to succeed a disheartened Muammar Ghaddafi, the Libyan leader, who according to insiders, was trying to steal the show for yet another term, and downplay the role of the Union as he saw his “dream” of a United States of Africa shattered by the operational procedures of the union that disallow a re-election. It is the stated position of the Ethiopian government that the union was at the brink of a serious fallout for the third time in its history since its inception in 1963, and that it was the Ethiopian role that saved it yet again. At the day’s end, business resumed and the summit concluded its eight day tenure, starting days before the arrival of the leaders, under the theme Information and Communications Technology in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development, and having deliberated upon and passing 56 decisions. PLEASE SEE THE FULL STORY

 

 

New Authority to Rejuvenate Rift Lakes

The ministry has hired a consultancy firm, Generation Consult, with which it signed an agreement worth 1.8 million Br to study the situations and propose the structure for the new authority. Five firms, including Desta Horecha Water Supply Engineering, ITAB Consult, and Omega Development had offered their tenders following the ministry’s invitation on October 27, 2009.

     

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Titled Deeds, but Only for the Deserving

The city government of Addis Abeba is preparing to give tentative title deed documents by investigating the cases of those land holders without any documents and identifying those who deserve to be given the documents, it said.

     

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Customs to Obtain High Tech Tools Totalling $28m

The Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) is expecting to take delivery of cargo scanning and x-ray machines as well as sensitivity cameras worth 28 million dollars within the next four to six months, a senior official disclosed.

     

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Tigray, Southern Towns Get First Roads

The first, a 76km segment from Dedebit to Adi Remets in Tigray, was awarded to Sur Construction which offered 801 million Br to the one billion Br offered by Yenkomad, the only other contender for the project.

     

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MOHA Orders Plastic Bottle Machinery from France for $9m

MOHA (Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi) Soft Drinks Industry SC placed an order to Sidel, a company based in France, for 6.5 million euros (nine million dollars) worth of plastic bottle manufacturing machinery as part of the expansion of its existing factory. An additional 1.5 million euros (2.08 million dollars) has been allocated for the civil work of the new plant, which will be constructed in the factory compound in the Samit area of the Bole District.

     

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DebreZeit Roads Dangerous Divider Dooms Drivers

Selome Tadesse, who was once a government spokesperson and then organiser of the One-Birr-for-One-Compatriot fund raiser as a private citizen, was driving from Langano to Addis Abeba along Debre Zeit road with two of her friends on the evening of Sunday, January 31, 2010.

     

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Windows Releases Vista in Amharic

Microsoft Corporation, maker of the Windows Operating System, which dominates the market, officially released its Amharic version for Windows Vista on February 3, 2010, at a ceremony held at the Sheraton Addis.

     

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Tana Basin Study Aims to Irrigate 20,000ht

A study for the irrigation of 20,000ht of land in the Tana Basin was delivered by the Tahal Group, a Netherlands based engineering company, to the Ministry of Water Resources (MoWR) on Monday, February 1, 2010.

     

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Homes for Tendaho Sugar’s Workers

Houses numbering 3,400 built for Tendaho Sugar Factory workers are to be inaugurated and handed over to the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) on Tuesday, February 9, 2010.

     

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Adama Gets First Traffic Lights

The installation of the first traffic lights for Adama (Nazareth) Town at three different locations, which cost nearly one million Birr, will be competed and delivered by February 22, 2010, Abdo Mohammed, head of the Administration and Security Office told Fortune.

     

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Adama Employs 8,810 in Cobblestone Scheme

A total of 30km of sidewalks will be paved using resources contributed by the public, the administration, the Urban Development Fund, the Urban Local Government Development Project (ULGDP) and the Road Fund during the year.

     

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NIB Ogles Construction Fair

It would seem as if Nib Insurance SC was the only insurance firm that recognised the existence of potential clients in the construction industry. It was the only company in its sector that attended the Ethio Built’10, which was the second Addis International Construction and the first Real Estate Trade Fair, jointly organised by an Ethiopian and Ecuadorian companies.

     

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