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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated October 22, 2007

New Fund to ensure free medical treatment

By Andualem Sisay

For the first time, Ethiopia is going to institute a vehicle insurance against third party risks proclamation, which will establish a fund that realizes free medical treatment for any person injured in vehicular accidents, whether the car is insured or not.
The proclamation will entail the establishment of a system for facilitating the provision of emergency medical treatment for victims of vehicle accidents.

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Livestock contraband costs nation 138 mln USD yearly
UAE lifts import ban on Ethiopian meat

By Andualem Sisay

Ethiopia loses over 138 mln USD per annum because of the large number of animals and other livestock products exported informally to neighboring countries across the border.
The countries to which these resources flow, re-export them to Middle Eastern countries and as a result of such operations, Ethiopia loses a substantial amount of foreign exchange earnings.

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Electric buses to begin shortly

By Kirubel Tadesse

Alemayehu Tegenu, Minister of Mines and Energy and other invited guests were among attendants gathered to welcome the first of two Russian made electric trolley buses at Meskel Square on October 19, 2007.
According to Getachew Eshetu, Manager and owner of Rus Afro Trolley Bus plc, more than one thousand two hundred electric buses are needed to solve Addis Ababa‘s transportation problem.

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International Saving and credit cooperatives day celebrated
 
 
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Carbon trading 101

That human induced climate change is occurring is no longer in much doubt. The world is under great threat if greenhouse emissions are not reduced … and soon. Carbon trading is being touted as a possible counter-measure to irreversible climate change. A noted expert in the field explains the new sector of carbon trading. to
Capital’s Andualem Sisay when theymet at recently in Nairobi, Kenya during ‘Reporting on Climate Change in Africa’, a media workers training program. Excerpts of the interview follow:

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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 1
 
Ato Behanu Tessema, Sir Robert Napier, and the Maqdala Expedition
My old friend Senator Berhanu Tessema, sometime Ethiopian Consul in Kenya, Ambassador in Liberia and Turkey, etc., was in his day a great book collector.
One of the books he obtained was Clements Markham’s well-known account of the British expedition to Maqdala, of 1867-8, entitled The History of the Abyssinian Expedition, which appeared in 1869....
  
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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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