Year: 2013
- Africa
Police in Addis Ababa summons Editor-In-Chief on defaming the widow of Meles
Ferew Abebe, Editor-in-chief of Sendek, a private Amharic weekly, was summoned on Wednesday May 15thto the Makelawi Police station (Federal Police Crime Investigation Department) and was questioned by the police for five hours before he was released on a 5000.00 birr bail. Ferew was accused of defaming the name of Azeb Mesfin, widow of former Prime Minister Meles Zenawion a…
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Busted!
In a dramatic move by the country’s anti-graft body, the Federal Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (FEACC), Melaku Fanta, Director General of the Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority and his deputy Gebrewahed Woldegiorgis (both pictured here) were arrested along with 22 people including two prominent businesspeople – Semachew Kede, owner of Intercontinental Hotel and Ketema Kebede, owner of KK Trading Plc –…
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Sacked!
A few days after he presented a much criticized nine months performance by his office to the House of Peoples’ Representatives, Justice Minister Berahn Hailu was sacked on Friday May 10th from his position as a minister in a letter written by Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalgen. Insiders say Berhan Hailu, a former minister at a dissolved Ministry of Information, was…
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Police named officer who shot to death twelve people in Bahir Dar
The Police in in Bahir Dar city, the capital of the Amhara regional state 578kms north of Addis Ababa, has named a member of the federal police unit who killed twelve and wounded two civilians in a weekend killing spree as Constable Fekadu Nasha. The police also said the shooter has had problems with his estranged girlfriend, whose mother was…
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Boston bombing ignites legal debates
Even with more questions than answers, legal debates surrounding the Boston bombing show America isn’t just another “Banana Republic” Tomas Mega, U.S. correspondent One week after the capture of the surviving accused terrorist in the Boston Marathon bombings, the American public is faced with more questions than answers. How did two young men manage to set off two…
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Addis Ababa gets another five star hotel
Emnet Assefa Capital Hotel and Spa, the first of its kind conference resort, has just joined the booming hotel industry in Addis Ababa. Built on a total of 19,383 Square meters of land located in one of the growing business areas of the city on Haile Gebresellasie road, Capital Hotel and Spa is built at initial capital of 720…
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The oddities of ‘Revolutionary Democracy’
Why Ethiopia’s ruling party needs to redefine its leading ideology if it wants its dream of building a developmental state to succeed Nolawi Melakedingel, Special to Addis Standard An ideological buzzword dominating the diction of Ethiopia’s politics by both those defending and admonishing the ruling party, the Ethiopian People Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), is none other than two mystifying words:…
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Munit and Jorg in ፪::2
Zela Gayle An Ethiopian, a mother of two, trained in economics and government, and an accomplished musician. That is Munit Mesfin. A German, a father of one, a guitarist, and a music teacher. That is Jorg. Two people with nothing in common except for music, and made an extraordinary alliance out of this only thing they have in common. Today…
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World Economic Forum on Africa: Discussing Africa’s hard-hitting problems
Some of the most pressing challenges the continent Africa is facing today can’t be addressed separately Alem C. If there is anything left in the open following the 2007 – 2008 global financial crises, it is the glaring reality of just how vulnerably dependent most countries in Africa are on too few export commodities of too few sectors. It is…
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