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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.
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New Authority to Rejuvenate Rift Lakes |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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