Month: December 2013
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Barack Obama’s full speech at Nelson Mandela’s memorial
To Graça Machel and the Mandela family; to President Zuma and members of the government; to heads of state and government, past and present; distinguished guests – it is a singular honour to be with you today, to celebrate a life unlike any other. To the people of South Africa – people of every race and walk of life –…
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His Day is Done
A tribute poem for Nelson Mandela by Maya Angelou on behalf of the American People His day is done. Is done. The news came on the wings of a wind, reluctant to carry its burden. Nelson Mandela’s day is done. The news, expected and still unwelcome reached us in the United States and suddenly our world became somber. Our skies…
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Featherstone: G8 land deal to boost land rights in Ethiopia
On Dec 09, the Governments of Ethiopia, the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the Federal Republic of Germany announced agreeing to enter a land country partnership to work together to improve rural land governance for economic growth and to protect the land rights of local citizens in Ethiopia. This partnership builds on existing programs and represents an…
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African Media Leaders Forum and the chronicle of the elephant in the room
A look into the three days event from the eyes of the host country Tsedale Lemma For what is believed to be a punitive handling of the free media by the government in Ethiopia, the mere fact that the country was picked up to be the venue to host this year’s African Media Leaders Forum (AMLF) – held between 6…
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Resolving the Nile discord: the best solution at hand
Why Ethiopia and Egypt need to look into multilateral basin-wide solutions as opposed to sub-basin approaches Zerihun Abebe Yigzaw, Special to Addis Standar Contemporary Nile Basin is featured by binary discords at basin and sub-basin levels. At the basin wide level upstream states on the one hand and downstream states on the other are in divergent positions regarding a new…
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In the words of Mandela
The world is mourning the death of Nelson Mandela, a freedom fighter and the first black South African head of state. He died aged 95. Mandela was admitted to hospital in June this year for a sever lung infection and was in and out of hospital since then. In honor of the man who was larger than life, we have…
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U.S. investors invest in a specialty coffee company in Ethiopia
Members of the East Coast Impact Angel Network (EIAN) agreed to invest into METAD, an Ethiopian specialty coffee company in October 2013. METAD will use the investment to establish a coffee processing facility on its coffee farm located near Yirgacheffe in the district of Hambela in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. The U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) facilitated the…
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Urbanization – causes and consequences
Ashenafi Zedebub “Is urbanization harmful as far as good health is concerned?”- This is what several people nowadays ask. Urbanization, or the movement of people to urban areas, started as a “population drift that has fast become a stampede” as one authority put it. According to experts in the field, urbanization has quite several reasons and the consequences are not…
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Captain Phillips: Who’s the Captain, Really?
Andrew DeCort Paul Greengrass’s brilliance for capturing the nervous system of an action thriller and making it throb with intensity is famous (Green Zone and the last two Bourne films for example), so I will forgo commenting on the visually stunning, adrenaline-pumping unfolding of Captain Phillips. Instead, I’m interested in the underside of the film, the sub-currents flowing through the…
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Is Ethiopia ready to make the best of renewable energy?
Ethiopian officials are pushing hard and fast to exploit the country’s abundant resource in renewable energy, but our editor-in-chief Tsedale Lemma argues a state monopoly, absence of a reliable document on Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) and Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) proclamation will make things tricky Ethiopia is said to obtain its electricity from two sources: hydroelectric power plants and thermal power.…
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