Month: April 2014
- Africa
The EU working for Africa
The crisis in the Central African Republic is a tragedy not just for its people for us all. The sectarian violence setting Christians and Muslims against each other has torn apart communities and divided the entire country. We are witnessing a humanitarian crisis of immense scale. Close to a million people are without a home. Many are scattered around the…
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India’s Allana to build Ethiopia meat processing plant
The $20-million plant, which will have the capacity to produce 75 tons of meat every day, is scheduled to start functioning by September of this year Leading Indian meat processing company Allana Group plans to build a meat processing plant in Ethiopia, an Industry Ministry spokesman said Monday. The plant will be built in Zeway town, 160km southeast of capital…
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From Theranaka to the 4th trimester healing hour: a new Spa in town
Hadra Ahmed Most people get a feeling of relaxation when someone spells out the word ‘spa’. The thought of spoiling oneself with aromatic bath, facials, manicures, pedicures, massages and many more is seductive: a mother who would like to take a break away from her children for a while; a traveler struggling to come off a terrible jet lag; a…
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The Gumma film award
The Gumma film award was held at the National Theatre on February17th in which 23 Ethiopian movies made in the year 2012 were nominated for 17 different categories. Accordingly the Gumma film award for Best Film of the year 2012 went for Yelomi Shita. Solomon Bogale took home the Best Actor award while Elizabeth Melaku took home the award for…
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Senai Wolderufael
2014 Forbes 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Senai Wonderufael, 27, is a graduate of business administration and had worked for Ethiopian Airlines for four years before he embarked on making his dream of “having my own company” a reality, which he established in the summer of 2012 but only could start…
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The fight for Africa’s statistics narrative
The 9th Symposium on Statistical Development in Africa (ASSD), held in the end of last month in Gaborone, Botswana, took an intense turn when participants, mainly African statisticians and policy makers, took turns to criticize Morten Jerven’s 2013 book ‘Poor numbers: How we are mislead by African development statistics and what to do about it’ in the presence of the…
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The fight for Africa’s statistics narrative
The 9th Symposium on Statistical Development in Africa (ASSD), held in the end of last month in Gaborone, Botswana, took an intense turn when participants, mainly African statisticians and policy makers, took turns to criticize Morten Jerven’s 2013 book ‘Poor numbers: How we are mislead by African development statistics and what to do about it’ in the presence of the…
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