Update: A World Bank board meeting scheduled for March 19, 2013, to consider the recommendation of its Inspection Panel to investigate whether the bank has violated its policies in a project in Ethiopia has been postponed to an unspecified date. The project was linked to the Ethiopian government’s resettlement program, known as “villagization,” which Human […]
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UPTOWN — An Ethiopian family in Uptown is searching for answers after the mysterious death of their 18-year-old daughter, whose body was found in an apartment last week just two blocks from her home. Mona Ali’s was body was found at 1:30 p.m. March 9, in an apartment in the 4600 block of North Winthrop
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Senbere Teferi and Zewdu Mola were impressive winners in the women’s 3000m and men’s 3000m Steeplechase as the four-day 2nd Ethiopian Junior Championships came to conclusion at the Addis Ababa stadium on Sunday (17). The Championships will help select Ethiopia’s teams for the IAAF World Youth Championships in Donetsk, Ukraine, and
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The concept of a developmental state by itself has no predefined rules and procedures that can guide leaders in making decisions about a country’s economic future. Even so the EPRDF by the blind arrogance of its leaders has decided that a developmental state is the best solution to transform Ethiopia to a middle income country,
(VOA) The United Nations Development Program has released its 2013 Human Development Index. Despite recent economic growth, Ethiopia is still near the bottom of the index. Ethiopia ranks 173 out of 187 countries in the Human Development Index 2013, unveiled by the United Nations Development Program, UNDP, on Friday. The Index is part of the
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By De Birhan The Tigre People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is to elect a number of new Central Committee members in its upcoming meeting next week in Mekele, Addis Abeba based Radio, Sheger, reported. According to Eyasu Tesfaye, the Propaganda Section Head of the Front, TPLF will listen to its two year performance and the Audit
New figures show that breast cancer is now the most common form of the disease in Britain. This country also has the highest death rate for the disease in the world. But statistics also show that nine out of ten of us are willing to make lifestyle changes to reduce our risk of the disease.
By Helen Epstein, The New York Review of Books In 2010, the Ethiopian government began moving thousands of people out of the rural villages where they had lived for centuries to other areas several hours’ walk away. The Ethiopian government calls this program the “Commune Center Development Plan and Livelihood Strategy” and claims it is
The Dubai Criminal Court of First Instance handed out life sentence to a carpenter for raping a maid and taking advantage of her while she was alone in the house where he was assigned to do some job. MZJ, 34, was also ordered to be deported after serving his jail term. According to the records
Last week, Heineken announced plans to build a 1.5m-litre capacity brewery in Ethiopia, a country that, with the second-largest population in Africa, is a major focus the Dutch brewer. Earlier this week, just-drinks spoke to Heineken’s GM for Ethiopia, Johan Doyer, about the new plant, the country’s rural spenders and Heineken’s stiff competition. just-drinks: What
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The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa continues to receive information indicating a kidnapping threat to westerners along Ethiopia’s border with Somalia. The U.S. Embassy advises U.S. citizens to defer travel to the region. If you live in or must travel to this region you should review your security posture and take additional measures to ensure your
By RAPHAEL SATTER , Associated Press LONDON – The discovery of a group of servers linked to an elusive espionage campaign is providing new details about a high-tech piece of spy software that some fear may be targeting dissidents living under oppressive regimes. A Canadian research center said Wednesday that it had identified 25 different
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