by Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam (This week my regular Monday commentary is presented for the second time in the form of a “flash drama” on Obama (a sub-genre of theatrical play sometimes described as a “ten minute one-act play”). The first “act” of this “flash drama” was presented in my June 23 commentary, “Obama is […]
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ESFNA 30th Anniversary – A crowed moving speech by Shekih Sulaiyman Nasradin
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Ethiopia’s Dibaba Tirunesh set a new record in the women’s 5000m today July 06 at the Paris Diamond League meet in 14 minute : 23.68 second. The London Olympic champion and World Record holder erased the Paris meet record (14:27.41) established by Kenya’s Cheruiyot Vivian Jepkemoi in 2010. Dibaba beat her fellow Ethiopians Ayana Almaz
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The Associated Press Saturday, July 6, 2013 | 12:23 a.m. Despite the concerns of Egypt, work on Ethiopia’s massive Nile River dam is proceeding apace as officials aim to finish construction by July 2017. Simegnew Bekele, an Ethiopian engineer who is supervising work on the dam opposed by Egypt, says he sees similarities between the
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DOHA: Ethiopia has agreed to send domestic workers, including maids, to Qatar but said it would need monthly reports about salary payments to them and that their work timings should not exceed that agreed upon in their job contracts. The dignity and rights of Ethiopian workers must be protected in Qatar, the country’s Minister of
By Robele Ababya Ethiopia on the threshold of new era of democracy Ethiopia is on the threshold of ushering in a new era of lasting democratic dispensation and building a compassionate and tolerant multi-cultural society under the supremacy of law. Political activists, civil society organizations and the people yearning for real change are looking for
By Yilma Bekele There was a half hour discussion on the Oromo issue in Ethiopia on Al Jazeera Television Network. It was one of those situations where you go ‘what just happened’ after an experience that leaves you confused and dumbfounded when it is over. As an Ethiopian I am familiar with the issue and
AN ETHIOPIAN housemaid left a handwritten note claiming she was sick and dying before hanging herself from a palm tree in Hamad Town. Buzunesh Zarihun Tadesse was discovered by her sponsor at around 10pm on Monday. Police later found the note in the 26-year-old’s room written in Amharic (an Ethiopian dialect). “The maid hanged herself
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(Bloomberg) Ethiopian lawmakers approved a 12 percent spending increase in 2013-14 to help support infrastructure development as the International Monetary Fund urged the government to free up credit for private borrowers. The state will boost spending to 159.4 billion birr ($8.5 billion) in the year from July 8 with about one-third allocated to upgrading roads,
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Bollywood craze appears to have gripped Ethiopian youth. They are willing to sit through a usually three-hour-long movie at a shanty-house with only an unskilled translator as their guide to a language they do not understand. Most of the translators in this East African nation of 85 million people, with old ties to India, are
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