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Baaba Maal, Senegalese master of Toucouleur music, in Addis Ababa for the 8th Ordinary Assembly of the AU, at which he will present a performance for the assembled Heads of State. Baaba is also to play for the general peblic in a concert at Addis Ababa Golf Club on January 31, 2007
EEPCo receives CSC building
By Groum Abate
The Ethiopian Civil Service College (ECSC) has given back its training centre at the Kotebe area to former owners, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), after 12 years.
EEPCo has had its old facility returned to it after deciding to reopen a training college for undergraduate mechanical engineering students.
EEPCo built the institute 18 years ago to offer short-term in-service training for freshly recruited employees that graduated from colleges in electrical fields.
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Ghadafi brings in cars, gold as present for leaders By Tedla Yeneakal Libyan leader Muamar Ghadafi has brought in 15 cars and two bags full of gold as a gift for African heads of states who are expected to participate in the 8th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union, scheduled to open tomorrow, Monday, January 29th.
Reliable sources disclosed to Capital that Ghadafi’s 15 cars have already arrived at Bole International Airport and have been issued permits to enter the country; however, the two bags of gold are kept in a room at the airport awaiting consent from Prime Minister Meles Zenawi.  MORE ‘Bashir doesn’t deserve AU presidency,’ Coalition By Andualem Sisay At a press conference in Addis Ababa Friday evening, a coalition of non-governmental organizations from across the continent presented a signed petition urging African leaders to consider the dire situation of millions of war affected civilians in Darfur.
African Heads of State will meet tomorrow here in Addis Ababa as part of the 8th African Union summit.
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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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