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Universities Create Partnership to Improve Disaster Risk Management
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 17, 2007
he US Agency for International Development (USAID) launched Wednesday a program that links a US university to an Ethiopian university in a partnership that will improve disaster risk management and reduce the vulnerability of ... more
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G-TV Set to Enter Every Household
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 17, 2007
n USA pay TVs share about 97 percent of the market, in Europe 47 percent whereas in Africa below one percent. G-TV was established to fill the gap in the African market, according to Dinir Abdulahi, marketing director of Metro Plc, the representative of G-TV in ... more
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Is Pastoralism Sustainable?
allAfrica.com - Monday, December 17, 2007
he six day-long pastoralist meeting in the Somali Regional State last week was held in a strictly pastoralist fashion. Participants both from the highlands and pastoralist lowlands had to sit on grass mats under ... more
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Diplomatic Immunity
ethiopundit - Sunday, December 16, 2007
a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_pHwuEa47jKg/R2XHS8EjLyI/AAAAAAAAAHo/i3v_obm-kWw/s1600-h/diplomatic+immunity.jpg"> From the Wikipedia article on Diplomatic Immunity : A 2006 study by two economists found that there was a significant correlation between home country corruption (as measured by Transparency International ) and unpaid parking fines "... more
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Obama for Change
Enset - Sunday, December 16, 2007
span style="font-size:130%;"> Earlier this year I opined about the wrong-headed approach the Bush administration has taken on the war on terror, particularly as it is being implemented in the Horn of Africa, and the need for the US to change its policy. By making... more
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U.S. Company to Aquire Oil Exploration Area
allAfrica.com - Saturday, December 15, 2007
US based company called Inter Global is to acquire oil exploration areas in Ethiopia. The exploration areas are found in the Afar Regional State, Tigrai and eastern part of the Amhara Regional ... more
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PM Returns Home, Eight Civilians Killed By Ethiopian Shells
allAfrica.com - Saturday, December 15, 2007
omalia's interim Prime Minister, Nur "Adde" Hassan Hussein, returned to the southwestern town of Baidoa Friday after visiting African and European ... more
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Ethiopian Politics - Saturday, December 15, 2007
strong> VOA: interview with Dr. Hailu Araya and Eng. Hailu Shawl on current developments within Kinijit (Part ... more
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Drought Insurance Extended to 6.7 Million People
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 14, 2007
he World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding "the first humanitarian insurance policy" in Ethiopia. Officials are hoping to raise US$230 million in insurance and contingency funds to cover 6.7 million people if there is a drought comparable to the one in ... more
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Regional, U.S. Universities Partner to Tackle Disaster Risk
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 14, 2007
US university and an Ethiopian university are to join hands in a partnership that will seek to improve disaster risk management and reduce the vulnerability of millions of ... more
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GTV Gets an Agent
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 14, 2007
TV is to partner with Metro plc in Ethiopia to offer new pay television services after searching for a partner in the country for over six ... more
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Nokia Siemens to Connect Rural Areas
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 14, 2007
okia Siemens, a joint venture of Siemens Communications and Nokia Networks Business Group, has announced plans to expand its business in Ethiopia to reach the rural parts of the ... more
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Ten Killed in Explosions and Assassinations
allAfrica.com - Friday, December 14, 2007
ortars slammed into different parts of the Somali capital Mogadishu Thursday in a continuation of anti-government violence that has gripped the city since the beginning of the ... more
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At least 17 dead in Somali unrest
Topix - Thursday, December 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The Somali and Ethiopian governments may have underestimated the level of organization and determination on the part of the Islamic courts" A medical assistant in Mogadishu's Madina hospital helps a wounded civilian laying on a hospital trolley Thursday, Dec. via The Seattle Times ... more
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Healing the Scars of Conflict
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
ust a month ago, Bela, 35, a mother of two from the Karo ethnic group, saw her neighbour shot dead. "She was planting grain with her husband. She then went to a stream to fetch water. After a while members of the Bume tribe came with cattle and when they... more
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Locust Infestation Hits Country, Ethiopia
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
he locust infestation remains serious in northeast Kenya and southeast Ethiopia, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation ... more
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Japan's Human Security Project to Provide Over $7 Million
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
he embassy of Japan in Ethiopia plans to sign a grant agreement amounting to over seven million USD with up to 13 governmental and non-governmental organizations during the Japanese Fiscal Year 2007 which runs from April 2007-March ... more
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Norway's Oslo University Lauds Aau's Special Needs Dep't.
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
orway's Oslo University last week awarded the Addis Ababa University in what it said was recognition of remarkable results achieved by the University's special needs education, a new field of study financed by the government of ... more
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Poor Don't Have Access to Finance
allAfrica.com - Thursday, December 13, 2007
GANDA and Ethiopia have less than one branch per 100,000 people, a huge barrier to access to finance in sub-Saharan Africa, a World Bank report has shown. The bank's policy research report, "Access to Finance," says only one in five people in Africa have access to financial ... more
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Somalia - One Year After TPLF Invasion - Part I
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, December 12, 2007
ifteen years since the fall of the Siad Barre regime on 26 January 1991, the Somali people had been victims of anarchy and civil war at the hands of various lawless military movements led by warlords who had no other objective but to kill and loot whatever came their ... more
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