Year: 2012

  • Choose your own right

    Ashenafi Zedebub As the author Leland Foster Wood wrote, success in marriage is much more than a matter of finding the right person. So many people are concerned merely about finding “Mr. or Ms. Right.” It never occurs to them that they themselves should also be right in view of the fact that marriage is for and made by two…

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  • Art Review

    Elizabeth Grant: Beauty and glamour coming to its rightful place

    The world’s finest skincare and beauty products company is coming to Ethiopia; it feels it came to its rightful place Alem C According to the official company profile of Elizabeth Grant, a worldwide renowned multi-million dollar company producing the finest skincare and beauty products, its founder Elizabeth “did not always have the flawless skin she has today. Damaged during the…

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  • Art Review

    Jananites: Ethiopia’s first female only band

    Zela Gayle Never in the history of Ethiopian music has there been a creation of an all female band until Jananites, a nine piece band which has three lead vocalists, three guitarists, two keyboardists and a drummer all in their twenties. Inspired by Addis Gassesse, a renowned Ethiopian music manager who is also behind the making of Jano, the first…

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  • Art Review

    Hopes of Ethiopia II

    The dramatic and moving experiences of three young Ethiopian competitors in the recent Olympic and Paralympic games in London are captured in a powerful new documentary, Hopes of Ethiopia II. The ten-minute film is a follow up to an earlier film highlighting the participants’ hopes and dreams before the competitions. The three characters featured in the documentary are Yanet Seyoum,…

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  • Africa

    The Mali crisis: a continental menace

    The crisis in Mali is no longer a simple Malian affair. How Africa deals with it will speak volumes on the continent’s readiness to solve its troubles by itself. Fred A. Eno, Special to Addis Standard Dr. Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma could be pardoned for over indulgence in the oft-criticized but favorite past-time of the AU Commission: travel. Yet the Malian crises,…

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  • Ethiopia: A Self-defeating Charities and Societies Proclamation hurting all

    Kiya Tsegaye One of the many things globalization is credited for is that it has “considerably weakened traditional governance processes,” according to Professor Charnovitz Steve, a well-known writer on non-state actors in governance. “Increasing global economic integration has reduced the power of national governments while granting other economic and political actors access to the world stage,” Charbovitz wrote. In Ethiopia…

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  • Africa

    Inside Ethiopia’s mediocre service providing sector

    Recently Lonely Planate named Addis Ababa as one of the world’s ten best cities to visit in 2013. It did so for the city’s culture, food, and value for money. But customer handling in most places where the best food and culture is available is niggling  Emnet Assefa Being home to the African Union Commission (AUC), The UN Economic Commission…

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  • U.S

    No country for old Republicans

      Tomas Mega, From Las Vegas Nevada   It’s finally over, and Republicans are asking what they do next.  Your candidate for President lost, failing to win the electoral vote, the popular vote, the state he was once governor, and all the states he once called home.  Your Vice-presidential candidate failed to win his own state, and that state had…

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    Institutional injustice Dear Editor, Thank you for bringing the issue of industrial malfunction in today’s Ethiopia to your esteemed readers (Face to face with institutional injustice, Nov. 2012). However, you have argued that the special attention Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has given to the animal husbandry and meat export business, if your sources are to be trusted, has two shortcomings.…

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  • The peril of ‘Economism’

      How many of us know that this rather poor continent, Africa, is ironically one of the biggest markets for the world-class whisky liquor company since long? Taye Negussie (PhD) One of the renowned economists of our time, Jeffrey D. Sachs, in his recent article entitled The Lost Generation written to the Project Syndicate website had as an opening statement:…

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