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A round up of the 8th ordinary summit of AU heads of state

The 8th ordinary summit of the AU heads of state was convened in Addis Ababa from January to 2007 and concluded with an upbeat tone but their deliberations on the troublesome issues of Darfur and Somalia were inconclusive to say the least. The summit did manage to discuss and set in motion numerous initiatives and agendas on which the leaders eventually agreed on.
The apparent inability to resolve the Darfur enigma and the issue of finding peacekeeping troop for Somalia are shortcoming of the summit’s outcome. It is still not certain that the requested 8,000 peacekeepers will be secured. It is even more uncertain whether Sudan’s avowed commitment pledged to UN Secretary General Ban KI-Moon to a joint AU/UN Darfur Mission will materialize as fact.
The Summit was otherwise successful, mainly in cultural and sport areas in which 2007 was officially launched as the International Year of African Football and in a welcome surprise, the upcoming new Ethiopian millennium was adopted by the rest of the continent. Reporter Andualem Sisay has compiled this quick over- view of the 8th ordinary summit of AU Heads of State.

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Castel uncorks winery plans

By our staff reporter

Mr. Pierre Castel, President of Groupe Castel of BGI – Ethiopia fame, met and held talks with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi on January 31st 2007.
Mr. Castel was in Ethiopia on a short visit to confer with the PM and top government officials, including State Minister of Trade and Industry Tadesse Haile, on the brewery giant’s plans to establish vineyards and a winery to produce first class wines for local consumption and the export market.

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Lome: Ethiopian’s West Africa hub

By Groum Abate

Ethiopian Airlines has finalized negotiations to set up a hub in Togo’s capital Lome this week, after extensive efforts finally succeeded in setting up a West African hub.
The airline is seeking to set up a hub at Lome to use for its Europe and North America flights.
Sources told Capital that the official signing ceremony would take place in a few weeks.
During his stay at the 8th African Union Summit here in Addis, President Eyadema of Togo visited the facilities of Ethiopian Airlines where he pledged to provide all the assistance to Ethiopian in their efforts to enable the carrier to fly to European and American destinations from Togo in the future.

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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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From malt to Bordeaux

Ethiopia’s rapid economic development and the general prosperity of its peoples is an issue which the government is pursuing with dogged determination. The agriculture centered growth strategy is based on the nation’s overwhelmingly agrarian character and its efficacy can not be understated as Ethiopia’s future is obviously tied to its vast and still largely virgin land.
These economic policies also envision manufacturing industries becoming more prominent in the share of GDP input. The development of industries that link up with the agricultural sector is a prime example of agriculture led economic growth.
Among these industries is the beverage sector and most notably that of beer production. Breweries by definition require large amounts of agricultural produce on a sustained scale. This arena is being effectively spearheaded by BGI-Ethiopia, a division of CASTEL Group, a global beverages company. Present in Ethiopia since 1998, BGI-Ethiopia operates two state-of-the-art bottling plants in Addis Ababa and Kombolcha, North Wollo.
The founding president is Mr. Pierre Castel, who was on a visit to Ethiopia for talks with PM Meles Zenawi on various matters, including the prospects of establishing a world class winery in Ethiopia. Teguest Yilma conducted an exclusive interview with Mr. Castel along with Mr. Jean Paul Blavier, BGI-Ethiopia General Manager and Marketing Manager Isayas Hadera during which Mr. Castel announced an ambitious new venture: high class vineyards and winery.

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Tribute to Assefa Gossae

A public library is to be formally dedicated on Monday 5th February in tribute to the late Assefa Gossae founder of Admas Advertising and publisher of runaway favourite Amharic weekly Addis Admas. On the same day, winners of a poetry writing competition will be awarded by an NGO called EWEKETNA TEGAT ASSEFA ASSOCIATION, set up as a dedication to the late Assefa.
He passed away two years ago this week following a brief illness. The shock and dismay over an untimely death at the peak of his profession and the prime of his life was a tragic loss for his family, for his colleagues at Admas Advertising, to the readership and particularly to Ethiopia’s fledgling print journalism.
Assefa is remembered fondly as a friend to all and a brother figure to the many journalists, promoters, artists and others he nurtured during his richly productive life.
In keeping with Assefa’s tradition, Addis Admas continues to be a popular source of all rounded news entertainment, features and some of the best newspaper columns written in Amharic.
Capital pays tribute to the memory of Ato Assefa Gossae.

 

SOME PENDING ISSUES OF DEMOCRACY IN ETHIOPIA
Root Causes of Under-development in Ethiopia ?

The series of lectures in the academic year of 2006/7 has a bread and will continue on 23 January 2007 with a talk of H.E. Ato Arkebe Oqubay, States-Minister for Works and and Urban Development on "The Role of Cities as Centers for Economic Growth“.

In the meanwhile CAPITAL, media partner of the series, will come back on contributions of the first series. On 27 th June Dr. Negaso Gidada, former President of FDRE, spoke about “the root-causes of underdevelopment.”

 

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