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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated April 23, 2007

AAWSA shortlist 7 companies for 12 boreholes rehabilitation


The expansion of trade and industry across the nation has been creating job opportunities both in rural and urban areas, according Minster of Trade and Industry, Tadesse Haile.
The development of the sector has created over 240,000 new jobs during the previous year alone and is expected to continue doing so in the current budget year, he said.
The booming floriculture sector and other agricultural development activities have created jobs in rural areas while expansions in textile, garment and leather industries have created jobs among urban dwellers.
The diversity, quality, and volume of the national export items have steadily been increasing, Tadesse added.
The nation secured 1 billion US dollars from export trade during the previous budget year, which was the highest in the history of the nation.
Wide-ranging activities have also been underway to secure 1.5 billion US dollars during the current budget year.

AAWSA shortlist 7 companies for 12 boreholes rehabilitation

By Groum Abate

The Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA), has short listed seven private companies to rehabilitate the 12 already drilled boreholes in Addis Ababa to curb the severe shortage of water in the city.
After AAWSA examined the companies’ stock at hand in the country, it short listed the companies on Friday April 20, to rehabilitate the boreholes and install the holes for distribution.

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EPA negotiation doesn’t address Ethiopian concerns

By Andualem Sisay

The current state of the negotiation on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the European Commission (EC), and Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), members has not adequately addressed Ethiopian concerns.
This was indicated on the workshop for Parliamentarians entitled the status of EPA negotiation, challenges and the way-forward presented by Geremew Ayalew on Tuesday, April 17, 2007.


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Ethiopia has been cited as a country with high levels of domestic abuse and various forms of sexual harassment. The situation is indeed alarming and requires the collective efforts of all echelons of society if we are to redeem our national reputation.
We can take heart at least, from the way the issue has suddenly grabbled public attention, doing away with the fallacy of a “polite, soft spoken and generally meek society.”
The Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association EWLA has been at the forefront on the issue of gender based violence. Mahider Paulos is the President of EWLA and discussed their activities with Capital’s Tsion Aklilu. Excerpts follow.

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The new Ethiopian millennium and the Queen’s manuscripts in Windsor Castle
 

Professor Richard Pankhurst is the son of Miss Sylvia Pankhurst, the great British suffragette and advocate of Ethiopia during and after Fascist Italy's occupation of Ethiopia. Professor Pankhurst taught for many years at Addis Ababa University and has written widely on Ethiopian history and culture. He is also the founder of Addis Ababa University's Institute of Ethiopian Studies and a founding member of the Axum Obelisk Return Committee and the Association for the Return of the MaqdalaEthiopian Treasures (AFROMET)

 
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Social mobilization against sanctioned violence against girls and women

“Democracy and the Social Question“: The sixth lecture in this academic year was given by Bogalech Gebre, Director of Kembata Women’s Self-Help Centre, an NGO working in the south of Ethiopia. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 27 March, in Goethe-Institute Gebrekristos Desta Centre.

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