Rice visit highlights major
African issues Sudan’s Al-bashir meets Meles
By Andualem Sisay
United States Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice,
on Wednesday December 5, 2007 met with various African leaders
in Addis Ababa and discussed on some of the current major issues
of the continent.
In her one-day visit, Secretary Rice held talks with the leaders
bilaterally and multilaterally on issues such as resolving the
conflict in the Great Lakes region, re-building Somalia, deploying
peacekeepers to Darfur, HIV/AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
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New consumers’
policy draft discussion
By Andualem Sisay
The Ethiopian Consumers Protection Association (ECoPA) begins discussion
on its new consumers’ policy draft with various concerned
authorities and individuals on December 8-9, 2007 at Ras Hotel in
Addis Ababa.
The main objective of the policy is to push the government towards
providing a better policy, and to strive to affect it accordingly
through attachment with a national strong consumers association.
The association strongly advocates the need for the government to
be involved in market regulation in selected goods and services
such as water, electricity, public transport and food security,
for the sake of protecting the majority of consumers in the country.
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Ethiopian targets Western and Southern African
markets
By Kirubel Tadesse
Ethiopian Airlines targets to increase its profile in the African
market by expanding western and southern routes in the coming three
years. Planning to increase its fifty routes to sixty, the airline
says its main area of concern will be African countries, since the
competition is getting stronger, with two American airlines having
entered and others showing interest in the African markets.
Ethiopian says it plans to maintain flights to the USA and Europe
with a few expansion plans to one or two states in the USA and in
Canada. An auditing and inspection team from Canada is expected
in one month’s time to allow Ethiopian to fly to Canada.
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