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India-Africa partnership sealed

By Teguest Yilma
New-Delhi

African Heads of State and Government along with the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, agreed to redefine and re-invigorate the decades-old partnership and historical and civilizational links between the African continent and India.
Their resolve was revealed on Wednesday 9th April, in the Delhi Declaration that was signed at the end of the two-day India-Africa Forum Summit held in New Delhi, India. The two sides agreed to base their partnership on the fundamental principle of equality, mutual respect, and understanding between their peoples. The leaders also reached complete agreement on priority areas of multi-sectoral partnership and steps to be taken to consolidate the same.

Meles to confer with labor union officials

By Tedla Yeneakal

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is set to confer in the coming two weeks with officials of the Confederation of Ethiopian Trade Unions (CETU), aimed at tackling basic problems encountered by labor union members at large.
Kassahun Fole, President of CETU, told Capital that the Prime Minister has agreed to hold discussions with him “We have had internal meetings amongst ourselves and reached consensus on questions that we need answers for”he said.
“It will include labor union members in the regions as well,” Kassahun said. “It will be a televised meeting as we want the public at large to be aware of the fruitful discussions we will be having.”

Construction permits banned

By Groum Abate

The Addis Ababa City Infrastructure Development office has banned sub-cities to issue construction permits for all businesses for unspecified period as of Wednesday April 9, 2008.
The letter written to all the 10 sub-cities of the capital city states that due to unspecified reasons, construction permits could not be issued to those who applied for an unlimited period until further notice.
Some observers said that the move is in a bid to control illegal moves by some people that have managed to get land during the election period.

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Cement shortage hits

By Groum Abate

A severe cement shortage has hit the country and forced a halt to small scale construction in the city, after the government banned those allegedly importing cement with black market foreign currency.
Amazingly, the price of cement remains stable without any change during the last couple of weeks.
According to some small scale contractors who buy cement from the market, even though the price is stable it is hard for them to find cement for their construction needs.

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The Alpha Touch

He is a towering figure of Ethiopian, African and world art. This consummate artist, in addition to his great works of painting, sculpture and design, is also a thinker and to add to his globally acknowledged prolific body of work he is still humble enough to state that his best work lies ahead.

The Most Hon. Maitre Artist World Laureate Afework Tekle is an Ethiopian institution and has been a huge source of pride to Ethiopians for several decades. It is our pleasure to present to you the full text of a rare interview the Laureate Artist gave to Capital’s Addis Mulugeta.

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		A TOUR OF Italian Archives on Ethiopia
		Today, dear Reader, I will take you on a tour of some Italian and Ethiopian archives. Let us start in perhaps the easiest way by looking at the UNESCO-sponsored Guide to the Sources of the History of Africa, more especially the volume on Italian-sources: the Guida delle Fonti per la Storia dell’ Africa a Sud del Sahara esistenti in Italia.
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Amazing Africa and Incredible India

By Teguest Yilma, New Delhi, India

The India-Africa Editors’ Conference held Thursday April 3rd in New Delhi noted the huge responsibility the media has in partnering the ongoing resurgence in India and Africa.
Opening the one day conference, Indian minister of state for external affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma, stressed the need of fashioning a more robust and contemporary strategic partnership between the two continents.