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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated January 8, 2007
   

Africans for Africans - President Yoweri Museveni


Their Excellencies President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Ethiopia’s President Girma Wolde Giorgis and PM Meles Zenawi conferring on the Somalia situation at the National Palace Friday, January 5th 2007.

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Doctors to get house allowance, untaxed professional benefits

By Tedla Yeneakal

VMedical doctors in the country, who have been in direct negotiations with relevant officials of the government, are on the brink of sealing an agreement to get benefits such as house provision allowance and untaxed professional benefits from the Ministry of Health, sources disclosed.

Young doctors, who are due to graduate this year have been engaged in talks with Minister of Health, Dr. Tewodros Adehanom and Minister of Capacity Building, Tefera Walewa for the last couple of months, on issues relating to a raise in salary as well as getting their credentials at hand upon graduation. The government retains their degree even after graduation unless they complete the required social service in the country by working under the Ministry of Health.

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Lion start roaring Gives birth to insurance cub

By Groum Abate

Lion International Bank will officially start operations as of Saturday January 8, after the 3,700 shareholders of the bank approved its Memorandum of Understanding and selected board members on Saturday January 6.

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Africa Insurance boss resigns

By Tedla Yeneakal

Alamirew Moges, Chief Executive Officer of Africa Insurance S.C. has submitted his resignation and left office as of this week.

The outgoing CEO told Capital that he has resigned from his post of his own will to start up a new business related with insurance, the details of which he refrained from disclosing.

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The New Ethiopian Millennium, and the New IES Library

 

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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‘Ye Gena chewata’: legendary Ethiopian hockey



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Celebrating age old Christmas

Christmas is the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ and is celebrated in different ways in various parts of the world. But the style of celebrating Christmas in the western world seems to have become dominant as the rest of the world mimics the commercialized theme of Western Christmas.

Setting up Christmas trees, dressing up as Santa Clause and hanging up green socks for presents have become an integrated part of Christmas celebration in Ethiopia .

How did Christmas come to be celebrated in Ethiopia , why do we put up trees and dress like Santa and other questions cross through the minds of many Ethiopians who still want to preserve the traditional way of celebrating this holiday.

Capital talked to Professor Richard Pankhurst, a celebrated historian who shared his own views of how the western world has a strong influence on Christmas celebrations around the world, among other issues.

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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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