Year: 2014
- 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 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,…
Click Here to read more. -
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…
Click Here to read more. - 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 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…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
Southern Africa most unequal region in Africa
The higher the country’s income, the higher the levels of inequality. This is according to preliminary findings of a new report on economic growth and income inequality in Southern Africa. Findings of a study undertaken by the Economic Commission for Africa – ECA Southern Africa Office and UNDP Zambia Country Office indicate a region grappling with high levels of inequality…
Click Here to read more. -
Making impact investible key to removing roadblocks on the way to Middle Income
Dr Maximilian Martin, exclusive for Addis Standard Ethiopia is part of a new set of high-opportunity countries with exceptional potential for modernization, the “EMICs” (Ethiopia, Myanmar, Iran, and Colombia). All are high-stakes countries with a history of expansion and empire, conflict, a considerable proportion of young and educated job seekers, high potential for growth and turnaround, strong foreign direct…
Click Here to read more. -
Tolerating free marketplace of ideas that never was, and still is
In many ways than few, the Ethiopia of 23 years before look nothing like the Ethiopia of today. Nor should it, under any circumstance, look the same anyway – for better or worse. Fortunately, Ethiopia is a lot better today than it was then; and not without proof. Ethiopia’s absolute command-turned-mixed-economy was a source of pain for its citizens; communist…
Click Here to read more. - U.S
The war over the minimum wage
If the Federal minimum wage is increased, and Mr. [Warren] Buffett is correct that you do lose some employment as you increase the minimum wage, it will likely impact only a fraction of those 2.6% of American workers, a tiny amount. So why not just do it? Tomas Mega, our US Correspondent,explains In April, Democrats suffered two defeats in their…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
South Sudanese refugees update: MSF calls for special mobilization
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International, an organization providing medical aid to South Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia since January this year, says the emergency situation of the refugees calls for special mobilizations of South Sudanese refugees. Describing the situation, Antoine Foucher, MSF’s head of mission in Ethiopia, said since the conflict in South Sudan broke out in December, an average of…
Click Here to read more. - Africa
Drought likely in the Horn as famine threatens South Sudan and Somalia
Kalkidan Yibeltal Greater part of the Horn is likely to experience a considerable moisture deficit, according to a recent climatic early warning report on rainfall irregularity issued by the Global Information and Early Warning System on Food and Agriculture (GIEWS) of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The report, which is based on satellite-derived observations, states that the 2014 rainy season…
Click Here to read more. -
Girl Power
By Gordon Brown LONDON – It has been eight weeks since the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram abducted more than 200 girls from their school dormitories in Chibok, in northern Nigeria’s Borno State. The geopolitical implications are now ramifying across Africa. Chad, Niger, and Cameroon are being drawn into the crisis, owing to growing suspicion that some of the girls…
Click Here to read more.