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A FIRST LADY’S BOUQUET

By Groum Abate

Khadra Mohammed, First Lady of Djibouti, has received the 20 hectares of land in the Sebeta area for a flower farm, on Tuesday July 22, 2008 from Alemu Sime, Investment Bureau Head of the Oromia Regional State.
The First Lady received the plot on behalf of her son Ayinashe Omar Guelleh, whom it was learnt, plans to engage in the booming flower sector. Floriculture already earns Ethiopia over 150 million dollars annually.

Tripartite Agro Pact

By Abiy Demilew

The Israel Center for International Cooperation (MASHAV), the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MoRAD) and German International Cooperation (GTZ), have signed a memorandum of agreement (MoE), on Friday, July 25, 2008, here in Addis, on the development of agricultural productivity in the nation.

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MIDROC adds floriculture to menu

By Muluken Yewondwossen

GITTU Horticulture plc, a new sister company of MIDROC Ethiopia Technology Group, owned by Ethiopian born Saudi business-tycoon Sheik Mohamed Hussein Al-amoudi, has purchased a 49 hectare farm from Prince Vegetable and Ethio Dream to invest on flower, vegetable and fruit farming.
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City Roads Authority utilizes 4.4 bln br

By MulukenYewondwossen

Since its establishment ten years ago, the Addis Ababa City Roads Authority (AACRA) has spent over 4.62 billion birr for road construction and renovation projects, acquired from the Ethiopian Roads Fund (ERF) and the City Administration. ERF allocated 197 million birr while the balance amount came from the Administration.
At a press conference held on July 25, 2008, Fekade Haile, general manager of AACRA, told journalists that the metropolis has been networked with 1049 kms of asphalt road of seven meters width.

Local News

Exporters, farmers agree to cut off middle men

Federation leases land for HQ

“We monitor the executive, not the other way around!” Speaker denounces pressure

Oromia Insurance S.C. established

Art & Culture

Africa unite - Liberation Heroes VIII

Saudi firm to launch 5mln USD comedy series on MBC 1 featuring Ethiopian actors


Interview

Coping with Emergencies

Adding highly unwelcome pressure upon a history of food insecurity in Ethiopia, are globally escalating food prices as well as the unbearably steep cost of fossil fuels – currently demanding from Ethiopia nearly 1 billion dollars a year, or as much as the nation derives from all of its export.With recurrent droughts as a backdrop, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) over the last three decades, has conducted regular interventions,

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		Personal Memories of the Aksum Obelisk Issue
		We saw in the last article how the original Aksum Obelisk Committee, an entirely private body composed of less than a dozen individuals, albeit people of good will, helped to launch a movement for the return of the Aksum obelisk which Mussolini had looted from Ethiopia a generation or so earlier: Please read on:
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By Hook or by crook

By Tesfu Telahoun

Part Two

Have you ever attended a 'D.V' wedding?
If you haven't, don't worry because it is not something to write home about-as you would definitely after being at a genuine Ethiopian wedding.
The bride and groom, could be sister to brother, man of the house to maid, gardener to socialite any combination will do as long as one 'partner' is a winner, are notably downbeat, the best men and bridesmaids are dressed in tacky rented tuxedos and gaudy dressed with collars and cuffs frayed by too many sweaty bodies at countless weddings.