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  Click here for Last Week's Issue Updated October 29, 2007

High standard coaches arrive

By Kirubel Tadesse

Sky Bus Transport System, which plans to meet the long distance transport needs of the country with modern buses, was launched on Friday, October 26, 2007 at Sheraton Addis.
Sky Bus Transport System is organized as a share company and offered 60,000 Registered Ordinary Shares for public subscription on the occasion. SBTS aims to define premium quality passenger transportation services across the country. Before the shares were officially opened for public subscription, a documentary illuminating existing problems in the current long distance bus transport system was screened for invited guests including Juneydi Saddo, Transport and Communication Minister.
According to Solomon Garedew, General Manger of Sky Bus Transport System Share Company, buses that are currently in use have spent a number of decades in service and most of their production companies are now closed.

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Ethiopia to award exporters annually

By Andualem Sisay

Following the increase in foreign currency earnings from exported items over the last four years, Ethiopia is to introduce an annual Export Day on November 3rd with the aim of providing various incentives to exporters who have performed exceptionally.
The Council of Ministers has already issued a relevant directive, according to Ahmed Tusa, State Minister of Trade with the Ministry of Trade and Industry.

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Small and micro enterprises in Ethiopia to create 18 mln jobs
71,000 condos under construction in Addis Ababa

By Andualem Sisay

The Ministry of Works and Urban Development (MWUD) targets to create up to 18 mln jobs in the next five years by strengthening the 1.8 mln Small and Micro Enterprises (SME) in the country.
Currently, the existing 1.8 mln SMEs are only able to create jobs for only 2.2 mln people. “Now, our primary target is to strengthen these enterprises by addressing the challenges they face”, said Kassu Illala, Minister of MWUDE at a press conference held in his office on Tuesday, October 23, 2007.

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Promoting the art

Starting from October 31,1907 Alliance Ethio-Francaise has been the leading cultural center in Addis Ababa; hosting a number of art exhibitions, fashion shows, music shows and many other programs. Moreover, a significant number of Ethiopians and the foreign community have studied French at this Center. Alliance is to launch a series of year- long celebrations to mark its 100th anniversary as well as the new Ethiopian millennium. Capital’s Kirubel Tadesse talked to its new director who has been in Addis only a few weeks but is already engaged in organizing events that will define the Alliance’s hundred year presence in Addis

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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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