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By: Seid Hassan, Ph. D. - Murray State UniversitySeptember 6, 2008. Lately, the EPDRF has been showcasing infrastructure building, particularly the road and real estate-based construction that has been taking place in Ethiopia. In one of my previous write-ups, I dismissed the propaganda spread by the EPRDF showing that not only there is no economic development in Ethiopia, but what we observe is misery and squalor. ... Read more |
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Oxfam, the international aid organization, says Ethiopia is facing what it calls a "toxic cocktail" of drought, high food prices, delivery problems and plagues. |
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Population explosion and a misguided land policy - two reasons why Addis Ababa is the architect of its own miseryRosemary Righter It was at a railway crossing near Diri Dawa, the provincial capital in the Ethiopian Ogaden desert, that I saw them: small children's hands, blackened by sun, clutching at the slats of a cattle truck dumped on a siding. The year was 1984, the height of the Ethiopian famine that claimed about a million lives. These young things must have expired, hours later, of heat and thirst in temperatures peaking at about 48C, in the truck where they had deliberately been left to die. |
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18 hours agoUNITED NATIONS (AFP) — Belgium on Tuesday presented a draft Security Council resolution that would end the UN mission monitoring the border dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia.The text, which would terminate the mission's mandate when it expires on Thursday, would go for a vote before the 15-member council on Wednesday, said a Western diplomat speaking on condition of anonymity.The draft stresses that the termination is "without prejudice to Ethiopia and Eritrea's obligation under the (2000) Algiers agreements." |
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By Groum Abate
Source: CapitalKhadra 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 in Ethiopia.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 in Ethiopia. Floriculture already earns Ethiopia over 150 million dollars annually.
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