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 “Addis Ababa City Planning Project Office” and tasked it to prepare a city development plan that it claimed would work for the coming ten years. In the middle of the process, however, the Project Office was given an additional mandate…
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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 railroad to open up trade with the southernmost territories ruled by the Pasha of Egypt who nominally reported to the Ottoman Empire. His motivation was to provide ready access to source from the cotton fields of Ethiopia, connecting the coast…
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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 the Chamber’s presidential election was held in May this year, and although almost everyone wanted Mulu to run for the second time, she declined saying she wanted to lead by example in teaching the lesson that the position is not…
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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 into a frontier town, burns the saloon, robs the bank, guns down leading citizens, and disappears into the dead of night before the sheriff gets himself out of bed. That is what has happened, repeatedly in recent days, in a…
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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 Italian author Cristiano Gentile, which seeks to raise public awareness of the situation experienced by albinos in Africa: a population often rejected and repudiated. The Holy Father was invited by the writer to close an international symposium on Africa organized…
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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 Competition. The objective of the competition is to encourage students to gain practical experience in journalism that can be applied to their future careers.A panel of judges, including practicing journalists, reviewed the entries and judged them based on content, presentation,…
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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 its neighbour whose share from the sector is probably one of the highest, if not the highest, from the continent: Kenya. But as of late there came an opportunity where the two nations can make tourism matter most to both,…
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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 and speak against what it now becoming the infinite impunity of the security apparatus (It is very simple: respect the constitution, May 2014). It is true that “the grave effect of this arrest comes in the form that it exposes…
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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 for a u-turn, but the first step may be the hardest: bringing justice to the dead Kalkidan Yibeltal For a number of universities located in Ethiopia’s Oromia regional state, the largest state in the country, the month May was…
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