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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated February 12, 2007
   
 

Meles back from Turkey
with business delegation

By Groum Abate

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi accompanied by some 21 business people left on Wednesday to Turkey for a four-day official visit.
Prime Minister Meles' visit was in line with the invitation extended to him by his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The delegation comprises senior government officials and more than 20 businesspeople engaged in textiles, construction, agro-industry including leather manufacturing, cereals and oil seeds export, and floriculture investment.

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Drug makers banned from Ethiopian market

By Groum Abate

The Ethiopian Drug Administration and Control Authority (DACA) has banned some 67 pharmaceutical manufacturers from exporting their products to Ethiopia.
Sources told Capital that about 67 manufacturers out of 104 companies based in Kenya, China, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Egypt are excluded from the import list by the authority.

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Task force sacks chamber secretary general

By Tedla Yeneakal

The Ethiopia Chamber of Commerce and Sectorial Associations Secretary General, Andualem Tegene, was removed from his position by the Task Force Committee of the Chamber after being accused of inefficiency. Andualem was allegedly notified to leave his post by a letter addressed to him by the committee two weeks ago, Chamber sources disclosed.
The Task Force Committee of the Chamber comprises as members, the Presidents of chambers from Addis Ababa, Mekele, Awasa, Nazareth and Welayta.

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Yanni Georgalis enthusiastic promoter and exporter of fine Ethiopian coffees and the Japanese love affair with Ethiopia's black gold ...

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Let’s go visit the IES Art gallery

 

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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Zero tolerance for FGM



BBC World Service Trust produce radio drama

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Outside window on Ethiopia

Over the last three decades, Ethiopians have emigrated in droves and it is estimated
there are now perhaps 1 million of us abroad. Somewhat euphemistically called ‘diaspora’, the overwhelming
majority are found in the United States, where in some cites, they constitute a sizable minority. The second largest
concentration of Ethiopians is in the United Kingdom, a once traditional destination of choice for migrating Ethiopians. The Ethiopian community in the UK is a vibrant, eclectic diaspora which among many other accomplished personalities, includes Ato Endale Beyene , founder and CEO of Ethiopian World Television, one of a growing number of diaspora –run Ethiopian television channels. Capital’s Tedla Yeneakal caught up with the busy entrepreneur who also owns an auditing firm in the UK and
discussed with him about EWT and its role on informing the Ethiopian community worldwide via the first
Ethiopian international satellite transmission channel. Excerpts follow:

 

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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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