November 2012

by Bizuayehu Tsegaye Public service giving practice has always been complained in our country, especially in recent time, hearing countless complains against institutions performance is not something we are unfamiliar with. In fact, it pushes me to share you my observation of the relationship between the practice of serving the society and performance of the […]

(CNBC) President Barack Obama was re-elected president Tuesday night, put over the top by the crucial battleground state of Ohio following the most expensive election in U.S. history. “You made your voice heard, and you made a difference,” Obama told supporters. “I will return to the White House more inspired and more determined than ever,”

By William Davison Nov. 5 (Bloomberg) — Ethiopia is set to approve a mining license for Nyota Minerals Ltd. to develop the Tulu Kapi gold deposit, Mines Minister Sinknesh Ejigu said. “We have agreed on the technical and environment terms and we are finalizing the economics,” Sinknesh said in a phone interview from the capital,

By William Davison on November 05, 2012 Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise, sub- Saharan Africa’s second-biggest carrier, said it agreed to lease threeBoeing Co. (BA) Dreamliner 787-8 aircraft from the International Lease Finance Corp. The state-owned airline, based in Addis Ababa, will take delivery of the aircraft in the first half of 2015, Ethiopian Airlines and ILFC

By Prof. Alemayehu G Mariam It’s Not Just About an Election In September, I expressed my support for President Barack Obama’s re-election. I told my readers that I enthusiastically supported candidate Obama in 2008 but was disappointed by his Administration’s policy in Ethiopia and Africa following his election: Did President Obama deliver on the promises

Zelalem Eshete, Ph.D. The new PM Hailemariam Desalegn has already been accused of several things in his brief time in Office. It is fair to hold him accountable for the things he has done, but failing to understand him is unfair. It is difficult to change the affairs of one’s personal life in a matter

– 3.5 billion lost in 2010 alone By Asrat Seyoum Ethiopian Reporter (Addis Ababa) – A recent report indicated that from 2001 up to 2010 an estimated capital of USD 15 billion flew out of Ethiopia to foreign markets via both illicit and licit ways, a problem which appears to be gaining greater attention in

By Hassen Hussein On November 1, 2012, Ethiopia’s kangaroo court convicted nine Oromo nationals, including opposition leader Bekele Gerba, who was nabbed right after meeting a delegation of Amnesty International, under that country’s sweeping anti-terrorism law. Their sentencing is scheduled to take place in a few weeks. The Oromo term roorroo connotes more than its

In 2001, Teddy Afro released his second album, Abugida, named after the Abugida syllabary of the Ge’ez language. Several tracks quickly caught the ear of many listeners in Ethiopia – “Halieselassie”, a tribute to the late Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie I; “Haile, Haile”, a single in honor of the Olympic long distance champion Haile

By Yohannes Anberbir | The Reporter In an unprecedented move, the Ethiopian Ministry of Defense (MoD) is set to enter the country’s financial sector establishing what it calls “Army Bank”. According to the minister of Defense, Siraj Fegessa, MoD is undertaking preparations for the bank to go operational in the current fiscal year. The plan

By Getahune Bekele The ruling minority junta in Ethiopia has suffered the first real taste of what is to come, on Wednesday 31 October 2012 when a powerful explosion flattened a heavily guarded maximum security prison in the heart of the iron curtain province of Tigraye, the late genocidal tyrant, Meles Zenawi’s home province. According