Month: June 2014
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How not to make a master plan
Ezana Haddis, Special to Addis Standard In mid-2012 the Addis Abeba City Administration (AACA) has organized a project office called…
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Grasping sustainability: a world-class textile and garment industry can become Ethiopia’s finest asset
Dr Maximilian Martin, Exclusive for Addis Standard In the 1860s,an English discoverer named C.T. Beke proposed to construct a 225-mile…
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Africa
Exclusive: I told them I can move a mountain if I wanted to – Mulu Solomon
In 2012 Mulu Solomon was elected as the first female president of the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce. Two years later…
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Kenya’s deadly night riders
By Michael Meyer NAIROBI – It sounds like the plot of an old Western movie. A posse of desperados gallops…
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Africa
Pope Francis launches a campaign to help African Albinos
Pope Francis recorded his voice last 30 November, reading several passages from the book “Ombra Bianco” (“White Shadow”) by the…
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Africa
U.S. Embassy awards student journalism competition winners
The U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa presented awards to three university students as part of the Embassy’s second Student Journalism…
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Africa
Tourism:The best way to connect Ethiopia and Kenya
Henry George Okoch It goes without saying that Ethiopia’s tourism industry has for long lagged behind other African nations, least…
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Letters
Zone9 bloggers and journalists Dear Editor, I was truly impressed by your courage to stand up by the nine youngsters…
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Africa
A new master plan:Complicated-turned-deadly
A recent plan to build a fantastic Addis Abeba is complicated and has turned deadly. It is not terribly late…
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