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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated December 17, 2007

ERA takes on projects worth ETB 35 bln this year alone

By Kirubel Tadesse

The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) has taken on various projects at a cost of ETB 35 billion this year, it was disclosed.
ERA Director General Zaid Woldegebriel, explained that the federal and regional roads authorities will execute some 130 projects across Ethiopia this year under the five-year Road Sector Development Program. At a press conference held on Friday, December 14, 2007, Zaid told journalists that the implementation of 80 of the projects has already started in different parts of the country.

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Oromia to build TV station

By Muluken Yewondwossen

The Oromia Regional State government has signed a contract agreement with EURO-tel, an Italian telecommunications company, to build a television station and transmitters, on Friday December 14, 2007 at the regional president’s office.
The regional government has set aside 61 mln ETB for the project, including for the studio and the purchase of transmitter equipment, station construction, electric power installation and road construction.

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Severe tremor in CUD

By Our Staff Reporter

The famous faces of the 2005 election who sounded sincere and altogether have nowadays become foes who openly disrespect one another, other week in week out. That move has finally been backed with action this week as Chairman Hailu Shawel suspended five members of the leadership. The executive committee on the other hand, has pledged to get the decision reversed.

   
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Mother to a nation

Abebech Gobena is one of the most familiar names in Ethiopian public life. This is an amazing woman who almost single handedly has established the nation’s first and largest orphan care system, and is still active in the many facets of running the humanitarian operation from her headquarters in Addis Ababa. Capital’s Addis Mulugeta met this mother to a nation and discussed a life well lived.

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Entreprenuer Profile is Capital’s youngest page and is already eliciting warm reviews. We have received dozens of e-mails, scores of letters and a clamor of phone calls of appreciation, suggestions and ideas which will all contribute for a better Entrepreneur Profile strengthened by your continued participation.

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A page from Ethiopian history

 
It is the standard practice of authoritarian regimes to distort the facts of history so that the new 'sanitized' version of past and present events will suit their particular philosophies. To Nazi Germany and, in our case, Fascist Italy, propaganda was a forceful weapon - or so they had thought when dropping an audacious propaganda leaflet in 1941. Enjoy a delightful footnote from modern Ethiopian history in this week's rather special Pankhurst’s Corner.
 
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Democracy and the Social Question: A Stuffed Parantha

The second lecture in the series on 'Democracy and the Social Question III' was given by H.E. Gurjit Singh, Ambassador of India, on Tuesday, 11 December 2007. In his speech the Ambassador stresses the importance of well functioning state-institutions at the side of democratic institutions. Only both together can guarantee a well function society. As he underlined in the discussion: The end is happiness of the citizens, here democracy is only a means - however an important one.

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