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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated November 26, 2007

NIB International Bank nets 75.6 million birr

By Addis Mulugeta

NIB International Bank S.C held its 8th annual ordinary and 9th extraordinary general meetings of shareholders at the Sheraton Hotel on Saturday, November 24, 2007.
Ato Lemma Haile Giorgis, chairman of the board of directors, stated to the shareholders during the meeting that the profit of NIB International Bank before and after tax stood at birr 105.4 million and 75.6 million respectively.

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Investment bottleneck in Sendafa
Five star hotel, real-estate investments on hold for 2 years

By Andualem Sisay

After obtaining a license to invest on a five star hotel and real-estate in Sendafa, Oromia Region two years ago, investors claim they are still struggling to acquire the plots to launch their project.
“By now, we would have completed over 50 percent of our project if we had been given the plot we requested for on time,” says Etsegenet Taye, Manager of Blue Nile Ethiopia Trading Share Company who still believes that it is possible for the company to realize both projects within three years from now.

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DH GEDA to enter cement production

By Andualem Sisay

A joint venture company comprising of foreigners and an Ethiopian investors, the Duguma Hunde (DH GEDA) family, are to construct a cement factory, which will have an initial production capacity of 250 tons per day.
The joint venture which is registered as Anbessa Cement Factory is expecting a plot for the construction of the factory in Tatek, Oromia region. ‘The cement factory that will be constructed with an investment capital of 80 mln birr plans to increase its production capacity to 500 tons per day after six months,’ told to Capital, Duguma Hunde, Managing Director of Anbessa Cement Factory.

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Smitten with Ethiopia

From its humble birth as the European Steel Commission after WWII, the 50 year old European Union (E.U.) has today become a mighty superpower and the world's largest trading block. It has come a long way from its gradual establishment as primarily an instrument to forestall another devastating European war that would draw the rest of the world into cataclysmic destruction. The E.U. has exceeded all expectations and has realized most if not all of its objectives of continental unity.

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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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Historical Notes on Books, 3
why some maqdala books were torn up

 
A grievous and perhaps unforgivable consequence of war is the senseless looting and plunder that victorious armies perpetrate on what is to the rampaging solider, 'spoils of war', but to the defeated side the very essence of their civilization and heritage. Magdalla - or to use Professor Pankhurst's spelling Maqdalla - is remembered not only for the martyrdom of Emperor Teodros but also as an instance of cultural genocide on a mass scale. Welcome to Pankhurst's Corner!
 
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A Bittersweet Affair

Collective memory, especially in the fast paced world of today, is a fickle thing. The function of politics in media is it seems, a priority surpassing the role of the media as the fourth estate.
The audacious comments on the Holocaust by Iran’s Ahmedinajan are basically a product of the sustained anti-Jewish and anti-American propaganda which has sown ground for such distortions of history to occur.

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