Month: November 2012

  • Africa

    A long awaited cabinet reshuffle surprises all

    Against the ruling party’s initial denial, the pressure of keeping ethnic balance saw Ethiopia’s PM appoint three deputy prime ministers   Emnet Assefa     A long awaited cabinet reshuffle by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn came to a surprising end yesterday Nov. 29th when the Prime Minister gave his list for approval to the ruling party dominated House of People’s…

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  • Africa

    MTN launches football campaign in Ethiopia

    Emnet Assefa MTN Ethiopia, a South African Telecom and ICT service provider launches its campaign “celebrate 31 on 831 with MTN Ethiopia.” The campaign that is said to celebrate the participation of The Ethiopian Football Team for the 2012 African Cup of Nations (ACN)  that will be held in South Africa is an SMS competition that takes 5 of its…

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  • Africa

    Face to face with institutional injustice

    PM Hailemariam offers lucrative incentives to animal husbandry and meat export businesses but he may wish to fix the country’s institutional mess first   Tsedale Lemma   Coming face to face with a sea of business men and women in one large ball room and looking directly into their eyes is surely an intimidating experience for a first timer;   coming face…

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  • Africa

    Urban Ethiopians, their names and languages:Falling out of love

    Ethiopians are largely known as conservatives, but  recent trends in urban areas reveal they are every thing but that By Rose Mestika Ethiopia, like many other countries in the world, is a land of diverse tradition, multiple languages and ethnic composition. It also prides itself of being the only country in the continent that has its own alphabets, and a…

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  • Middle East

    The Gaza bombing: Operation Barak’s Seat

    It was Defense Minister Ehud Barak who needed this war badly, but he may be the one who will be the bad loser   Ran HaCohen (PhD), Middle East Contributor, Tel Aviv The narrow Gaza Strip – just 365 sq. km (70% of Addis Ababa’s municipal area) off sea-shore surrounded by barbed-wire is home to 1.5 million Palestinians, most of…

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  • Copyright protection in Ethiopia: Shining law, zero effect

    The Federal Constitution of Ethiopia recognizes the protection of intellectual property rights, but no one believe it works   Kiya Tsegaye The idea of enacting a copyright law was first developed to encourage creativity and further grew on that sole purpose and protecting companies’ and individuals’ right to ownership.  Such protections of copyright is expressed by giving the author or the…

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  • Of Ethiopian Proverbs (“Neger Be-Missale”)

    Ashenafi Zedebub “Tej be-brlle , neger be-missale”, is an ancient Ethiopian saying, which literally means ”  “tej “- a traditional drink mainly made from honey- may be drunk out of “brille” – a bulgy glass with a narrow, long neck and “neger” – an example or  a proverb – belongs to oration or talk. There is also another popular short…

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  • The morphology of ‘bad governance’

    “Bad governance is an equal sharing of misery.” –Shiv Khera  Taye Negussie(PHD) Too often, oppressors in unjust, repressive, unaccountable and undemocratic governance systems seem to be trapped in a mental delusion that they would gain at the expense of the oppressed. This is a gross misconception since the very act of dehumanizing a fellow human being necessarily entails the robbing…

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  • Africa

    Extractive resources in Africa : When riches mean war, poverty and corruption

    Regrettably, natural resource gifted continent in the world is also home to a staggering level of poverty and corruption Alem C.  It is a widely held belief both by economists and policy makers that extractive resources worldwide have dictated to a wider extent economic policies and outcomes of countries endowed by them. According to a 2002 World Bank report on…

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  • Hopes will die last

    Dear Editor, I found your lead article of the October edition of your magazine rather interesting. (Hopes ignited die last than shattered soon, Oct. 2012).  Following the death of your late PM, Meles Zenawi, your country is undergoing through an exciting period. My expat colleagues and I were very relieved to witness that unlike the doomsday reporting by the media…

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