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Business community leader Eyesuswork Zafu conferring with the newly appointed ambassador of the US to Ethiopia. Amb. Donald Yamamoto, explaining what he wants to see done in terms of business during his three year stay here.

Yamamoto takes Ethiopia to heart

By Eskinder Michael

His credentials might make him seem like a giant out of Washington, but this soft spoken expert on the horn of Africa is quite the contrary. H.E Donald Yamamoto, Ambassador of the USA to Ethiopia, projects a warm feeling of friendship to whoever meets him.
In his first ever meeting with the press, Yamamoto made an effort to convoy the message that Ethiopia was close to the heart of the US in terms of friendship and support for development.

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Ethiopian, Lufthansa to strike partnership deal

By Groum Abate

Ethiopian Airlines is going to sign a partnership agreement with Lufthansa next week.
The long awaited partnership on code sharing procedures has been negotiated by the two parties for a long time.
If the negotiations bear fruit, the two airlines would co-operate in many areas of the airline business, which they expect will make them more competitive.

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Al-amoudi haggles to buy CMC houses

By Tedla Yeneakal

The Ethio-Saudi business tycoon Sheik Mohammed Al-amoudi is under negotiations with the Rental Houses Agency to buy houses in the CMC area in a new round of talks with officials of the agency. Both sides failed to reach an agreement on the terms of the purchase a two years ago.

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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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Destined for tradition

Addis Ababa has not been as fortunate as Johannesburg or Ouagadougou in holding annual film festivals that have attained popularity and artistic importance. The Art Film Festival on Just and Sustainable Future may yet be just such an event that will put Ethiopia on the African cinema map. Conceived and sponsored by Initiative Africa – a not for profit organization dedicated to good governance, global sustainability and transformational change, the first Addis Ababa Film Festival on Just and Sustainable Future was launched from 5th to 15th January 2007 and featured a host of sensitive
productions workshops and panel discussions which probed the background of the
continent’s multiple problems of globalization immigration and respect for human rights.
The embassy of Finland was a major sponsor of this first ever film festival on such a timely theme.

 

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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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