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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated March 19, 2007

‘Berrele’ Cultural Center An innovative idea to build a three-floor tower in the shape of an Ethiopian drinking glass traditionally used for tej (honey mead) is in the pipeline. An investor is planning to include a traditional restaurant, museum, library, and a conference and wedding hall on 3,000 sqm in Addis Ababa for a sum of up to 20 mln birr. The center is planned to be built within four months, well in time for the new Ethiopian Millennium.

Flood of complaints

180mln birr Harar water tender upsets local firms

By Groum Abate

Four local companies have filed complaints to the Ministry of Water Resources over the recent tender for the distribution and installation works of the Harar Water and Sanitation Project.
Sources told Capital that the local water construction companies appealed to the minister this week to revise the tender qualification that states only companies that have over 25 million dollars in annual turnover could participate in the tender.

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Adama administration sacked

By Groum Abate

Adama town administration has been mostly replaced by newly appointed staff at the ongoing Adama devaluation or self-assessment meeting chaired by the Chief Administrator of the Oromia Regional State, Abadula Gemeda.
Sources told Capital that Jemal Abasso, Head Administrator of Nazareth town, was replaced by Sisay Negash who was Illubabur administration head. Deputy Administrator Debo was also replaced by Mesfin who comes from Hararghe.

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Ethiopia to assemble Ladas

By Andualem Sisay

Holland Car plc, which is currently assembling DOCC, is to start building Ladas , which is the car of choice for Addis Ababa cabbies.
Engineer Tadesse Tessema, who owns half of Holland Car plc, told Capital that the company has signed a contract agreement with Lada Egypt on March 6, 2007 to assemble Lada 2107 in Ethiopia.

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‘Made of Africa’
exhibition opens today



In Perfect Light

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Luleged Reta

The most important event in the history of Ethiopian art was the establishment in 1941 of a Department of Fine Arts in the Ministry of Culture. First administered by sculptor Abebe Wolde Giorgis and with its assistant director, painter Agegnehu Engida, the Department in fits and starts, led to the birth of the Addis Ababa Fine Arts School.
The AAFAS is virtually synonymous with the well known modernist painter and educator, Ale Felege Selam Heruy. Ato Ale, or Mr. Ale, as his students call him, came from a family of eminent artists and was also an enterprising educator who organized a fundraiser attended by the imperial family. The 76,000 Ethiopian dollars (38,000 US) he managed to collect, he presented to the Emperor and beseeched him to help realize his dream of opening an art school. Kebede Michael was entrusted with the project by an appreciative Haile Sellassie I. Supervised by Ale Felege Selam Heruy and architect Michael Teodros, the school was officially opened by the Emperor himself, who in a now historic address said:
“We admire the work of the Creator not only for the things he provides us to nourish our bodies but also for the beauty that we observe around us. It is this aspect of creation that we can truly enjoy if we look and search beyond the material aspect of creativity.

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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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The history of resistance to the Italian Fascist invasion and occupation (1935-1941)

 

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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Europe 's role in promoting democracy

Democracy and the Social Question II: In the third lecture of this academic year Ambassador Timothy Clarke spoke about Europe‘s commitment for democracy within and outside Europe and the EU‘s objectives in a partnership for developing African democracy. CAPITAL, media-partner of this series, publishes the Ambassador's speech and reports from the discussion that followed.

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