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Italians eye Ethiopia investment
ETC in row with SIM card subcontractors
By Tedla Yeneakal
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) is engaged in a heated row with private companies which are subcontractors of mobile SIM cards, after the latter claimed that ETC is not giving them enough cards for sale, thereby failing to meet high demand.
A SIM card retailer who requested anonymity, told Capital that the Corporation has stopped giving them the SIM cards and is undertaking the sales of the cards on its own.
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Government seeks partners for major ventures
By Andualem Sisay
The Privatization and Public Enterprises Supervising Agency (PPESA), is looking for domestic or foreign public or private partners for its Coal Phosphate Fertilizer and Rubber Plantation and Processing projects.
The Coal Phosphate Fertilizer project, the total cost of the complex which is estimated at between 500 and 600 mln USD, is based on the lignite deposit in Yayu, Illubabor Zone, some 540 kms in southwest Ethiopia.
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Condos on rent for millennium
By Eskinder Michael
It was believed that accommodation would be the main problem for the highly anticipated millennium celebrations in Ethiopia, but the Addis Ababa City Caretaker Administration has turned that fear around by bringing the newly built condominiums into the picture.
Sources disclosed that the administration has decided that condominiums would be rented for guests who come for the celebrations, though the lucky winners of the draw for the houses are waiting in line.
MORE Mobiles to go Abesha
By Andualem Sisay
When technologies transfer from one country to another, they need to be adopted to the extent that they benefit the majority of the people.
Unfortunately, due to various reasons, some technologies are directly imposed without taking into consideration the limitations of the recipient society to fully utilize the technology.
The mobile phone is among the technologies that have been directly transferred to Ethiopia. As the majority of the people of the country are not familiar with the English language or other languages that are used on mobile phones, we observe many people can’t do a routine operation like save a friends name and number.
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Introducing Addis Ababa University’s Oldest Building |
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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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