Year: 2014
- Africa
The secret of my success: Business leaders share tips for doing business in Africa
At a recent gathering of top executives, working on the agenda for the Africa Hotel Investment Forum (AHIF) – Africa’s top event for hotel investors, research was undertaken by the Forum’s organizer, Bench Events, to find out what the essential principles are for doing business successfully in Africa. The main findings were that African markets are progressively being seen as…
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No U.S. Federal Aviation Administration warning for Ethiopia
There has been no recent FAA warning for flights in or out of Ethiopia. The FAA flight prohibition (SFAR 87 of May 162000) pertaining to Northern Ethiopia predates the June 18, 2000 cessation of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea and has not been updated subsequently. The FAA advisory (KFDC A0012/97) pertaining to Ethiopia/Kenya dates to 2002, a statement from the…
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Fitsum Tefera: in harmony with nature
Mahlet Fasil It is not often that one finds an artist audacious enough to immerse his artwork in a realistic portrayal of landscape and cityscape in the current Ethiopian art scene. Fitsum Tefera is all too aware of the prestige usually associated with a variety of abstractism. In fact he is not reserved from expressing his reverence of the…
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Fitsum Tefera: in harmony with nature
Mahlet Fasil It is not often that one finds an artist audacious enough to immerse his artwork in a realistic portrayal of landscape and cityscape in the current Ethiopian art scene. Fitsum Tefera is all too aware of the prestige usually associated with a variety of abstractism. In fact he is not reserved from expressing his reverence of the great…
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Ethiopia’s Developmental Statism: Cynic diagnosis, naive prescriptions
Merkeb Negash, Special to Addis Standard All previous articles on Ethiopian developmental statism on this magazine started with what the Ethiopian developmental state fails to be. It is argued that the Ethiopian state is nothing like the highly sophisticated state apparatus of the East Asian states and that it is – as a result- corrupt, soft and prone to capture.…
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Exclusive: Are Indian companies “grabbing land” in Ethiopia?
Relations between Ethiopia and India date back to some 2000 years ago and today, according to the Ethiopian Investment Authority, India is the second largest foreign direct investor in Ethiopia. But allegations of land grab by Indian companies, vandalism by local people on an Indian owned farm and a recent accusation by an Ethiopian high-level official against the Indian government…
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Ethiopian jailed in China’s first khat smuggling case
An Ethiopian was sentenced to seven months in jail for trafficking khat to China, marking the first such case in the country, which classed the plant as an illegal drug this year.The verdict was handed down earlier this month by the Intermediate People’s Court of Hangzhou, capital of east China’s Zhejiang Province. The defendant, Ibrahim Abdulsemed Abdosh, was also fined…
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The Bowe Bergdahl backlash
President Obama was surprised by the initial technical failures of the Obamacare rollout; he was staggered by Putin’s invasion of Crimea; he was stunned by the scandal involving the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups; he appears startled at the speed of the ISIS takeover of large swaths of Iraq; he’s been taken aback by the thousands of illegal…
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New Nile Petroleum Company Headquarters in Ethiopia
Nile petroleum Company announced that new headquarters of the company will be inaugurated soon in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. The placement of the headquarters for the leading petroleum company indicates that the company is keen on benefiting from the Ethiopian market and marketing its petroleum products in the Horn of Africa. “The idea of opening a branch for…
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Technical Committee on formation of Interim South West State approved
An 18-member Technical Committee on the Formation of Interim South West Administration has been approved at a ceremony held in Mogadishu. The President, Prime Minister and the Speaker of Parliament r all attended the ceremony along with figures from south western Somali regions. A press release from the office of the Prime Minister said the formation of the technical committee…
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