Year: 2014

  • Africa

    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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  • Africa

    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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  • Art Review

    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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  • Africa

    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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  • Africa

    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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  • Africa

    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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  • Africa

    Muktar Kedir elected as President of Oromia regional state

    Mahlet Fasil The 10th Plenary Session of the Council of the Oromia Regional State elected Muktar Kedir as President of the Oromia Regional State. The two day session of the council was held at Adama Aba Gada Hall, 100 km South of Addis Ababa. Muktar Kedir is serving as the Civil Service Cluster Coordinator with the rank of deputy Prime…

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  • Africa

    Tanzania to dispatch peacekeeping troops in South Sudan

    Tanzania’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Bernard Membe said on Thursday March 27 that Tanzania was keen and ready to send Tanzania People’s Defense Force (TPDF) troops to South Sudan to promote peace and stability and support peace- building efforts at the behest of the United Nations. He told journalists that the impressive performance and dedication shown last…

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  • Africa

    EU parliamentary delegation meet Foreign Minister Dr Tedros

    Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Dr Tedros Adhanom met with with an EU parliamentary delegation led by Mr. Arnaud Danjean, Member of the European Parliament and Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Security and Defense on Wednesday March 26, the ministry said. Briefing the delegation on a wide range of regional issues, Dr. Tedros said he appreciated the EU’s…

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  • Africa

    Egypt and the Nile: at a crossroad

    For far too long, Egypt has been playing nasty against the entire riparian states of the Nile basin. But the Nile water politics have changed since the last three years following the collapse of Hosni Mubarak’s regime and Ethiopia’s unilateral decision to build Africa’s largest dam on the Nile. Now Egypt is standing at a crossroad; making the right decision…

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