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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated August 7, 2007


Mr. Stephane Gompertz Ambassador of the Republic of France to Ethiopia and his Foreign and European Affairs Minister Mr. Bernard Kouchner

France, Ethiopia to set up joint commission

By Tedla Desta

Mr. Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs of the Republic of France, paid a working visit to Ethiopia on July 26th 2007.
The minister presented to AU Chairperson Prof. Alpha Oumar Konare a report on the efforts of France and the European Union to resolve the crisis in Darfur, and together looked for ways to strengthen the already close cooperation between France and the AU on this issue.


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GITTO to build 50 floor tower in Addis

By Tedla Desta
GITTO Construction Ethiopia Plc, which has its mother company in Italy, is discussing with the Addis Ababa Provisional Administration on building a 50 floor tower in Addis Ababa, General Manager of the company, Gabriele Diano told Capital.
According to Mr. Diano, Construzioni Generali Nigeria LTD, which entered the Ethiopian construction industry through GITTO Construction Ethiopia Plc, is planning to construct the building.

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GTZ completes four condo buildings

By Kirubel Tadesse
The German Technical Cooperation International Service (GTZ IS) has handed over four new condominium buildings to the Addis Ababa Housing Development Project Office at a ceremony held at Lideta Milifoni site on July 28, 2007. The condominiums have been built in Lideta, Gerji, Yeka and Asko sites. Dr. Wubishet Berhanu, Addis Ababa City Manager, thanked GTZ and expressed his hope that at the end of these consecutive projects, the housing shortages in the capital would be greatly alleviated.
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The untold story of Ashenge

Painting the Hamer from Addis
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Interview
 

traveling the globe in tranquil mind

The movement and pace in human interaction increases in direct proportion to developments in science and technology. As the world shrinks due to the ever growing ease of global travel, a relatively novel insurance product has been introduced tailored to this specific sub-sector.
Travel insurance is a comprehensive, global and affordable insurance scheme for travelers and is an internationally integrated collaboration of world class insurers.
Nyala Insurance S .C. has pioneered this modern product to Ethiopia. To explore the details, Capital’s Tedla Desta met with Eyob Mihrete, General Manager of Nyala Insurance.


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Entreprenuer Profile is Capital’s youngest page and is already eliciting warm reviews. We have received dozens of e-mails, scores of letters and a clamor of phone calls of appreciation, suggestions and ideas which will all contribute for a better Entrepreneur Profile strengthened by your continued participation.

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Ethiopian schoolboy’s campaign for return of historical artefacts
 

The Return of looted antiquities to their country of origin is a matter that is of great concern to students of Ethiopian history and to this ancient nation in general.
Following several decades of unsuccessful attempts by a procession of regimes and unkept promises by the ‘custodian’ nation, the looted Aksum obelisk was finally returned to Ethiopia in April 2005.

 

  
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Social mobilization against sanctioned violence against girls and women

“Democracy and the Social Question“: The sixth lecture in this academic year was given by Bogalech Gebre, Director of Kembata Women’s Self-Help Centre, an NGO working in the south of Ethiopia. The lecture took place on Tuesday, 27 March, in Goethe-Institute Gebrekristos Desta Centre.

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