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Updated August 13, 2007

Ato Abi Sano, CBE President and Vice-President of Ethiopian Bankers Association (EBA), Ato Addisu Abba, EBA President and Neway Gebreab, Economic Advisor to the PM, at Hilton symposium. Legal hurdles over collaterals By Andualem Sisay Due to a stream of court injunctions banks claim that they are unable to sell defaulter properties held as collateral and valued at 39.5 mln birr. According to 223 sample cases selected for study by the Ethiopian Bankers Association (EBA), banks are facing challenges in exercising their rights of selling non-payers' properties as per the law passed nine years ago. This was indicated at a day long symposium organized by EBA on Saturday 11 August, 2007, at the Addis Ababa Hilton. MORE

	Treating a nation bleeding from brain drain Dr. Tewabech Bishaw, a veteran figure at the Ministry of Health, having worked there since the Emperor’s days, says she noticed while working as human resource department head at the ministry some 20 years ago, that many health professionals sent abroad for further study do not return back to Ethiopia. Since then she has been thinking about a remedy for the brain drain that is bleeding the country to this day. MORE Ethio-Sudan Optical Fiber project inaugurated By Kirubel Tadesse The Ethio-Sudan optical fiber installation project was officially inaugurated at a grand ceremony held at the Sheraton Addis on August 11, 2007. Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC), announced that a high speed and capacity international link via Sudan will be realized through the Ethio-Sudan optical fiber installation project. The implementation of Addis-Metema fiber optical line including the establishment of a link with the already existing optical network in Addis Ababa was finalized with over 118 million birr capital. The physical work of the project took about a year together with the test works. MORE

Local News

Ethiopian’s hotel dream finally comes true

No room for old practice, says AEF

Hope Enterprises to build university college for 70 mln birr

Six MoARD staff, Indian national in custody

Art & Culture

“Dream Doctor” in Addis

‘Yewondoch Gudaye’- Still a man’s world

Concert Benefit Child


Interview

FGM:
“A violation of the bodily integrity of women”

Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) refers to the excision or tissue removal of any part of the female genitalia for cultural, religious or other non-medical reasons. It is more frequently referred to as female genital mutilation (FGM), or female circumcision (FC). The expression ‘Female Genital Mutilation’ gained growing support in the late 1970s. The word mutilation not only established clear linguistic distinction from male circumcision, but it also emphasized the gravity of the act. In 1990, this term was adopted at the third conference of the Inter African Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (IAC), in Addis Ababa. In 1991, the World Health Organization recommended that the United Nations adopt this terminology and subsequently, it has been widely used in UN documents. Even after passing many years in struggle to eliminate FGM, it is believed that it still exists in many countries.
Capital discussed the issue with Ms. Aminata Toure, Officer In Charge of Gender, Culture and Human Rights Branch, at UNFPA HQ, while she was in Addis Ababa for a three day conference.

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		Ethiopian schoolboy's campaign for return of historical artefacts
		The Return of looted antiquities to their country of origin is a matter that is of great concern to students of Ethiopian history and to this ancient nation in general. Following several decades of unsuccessful attempts by a procession of regimes and unkept promises by the ‘custodian’ nation, the looted Aksum obelisk was finally returned to Ethiopia in April 2005.
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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.