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Ethiopian News
 Addis Ababa, March 18, 2010 (Addis
Ababa) - The Armauer Hansen Research Institute (AHRI) granted the 9th
Tore Global Prize to three young Ethiopian researchers on Tuesday for
their outstanding findings on infectious diseases. Ethiopians namely;
Manaye Mamo, Misgana Ibrahim, and Haileyesus Adamu were awarded here on
16 March 2010 for their excellent research works conducted on three
different areas.
 Gondar, March 18, 2010 (Gondar) - A liquid
nitrogen manufacturing factory constructed in Gondar Town, Amhara State
at a cost of over 4.3 million Birr was inaugurated. The factory
will help to expand crossbreeding technology in the zone. The
factory is constructed by the North Gondar Zone Sustainable Natural
Resource Development and Utilization Program supported by the Austrian
government. Program office coordinator, Teshome Mulu said on the
occasion that the factory will help increase productivity. He
said the factory has a capacity to produce up to 12,480 liters liquid
nitrogen annually.
Editors Note: On a live ETV broadcast today, Prime Minister of Ethiopian Meles Zenawi
answered raised by the parliament members. Ato. Ali question was about
the Aid divert to rebels report from the BBC.
 TENAFLY, N.J. -
Sporting his trade-mark grin and a black track-suit, Earvin "Magic"
Johnson came to town Sunday to support a Tenafly Middle School program
that helps students in Ethiopia. As he arrived, Johnson sparked a
commotion among students and parents, who thrust basketballs, sneakers,
photos and shirts at him, hoping for a signature. Desperate
cries of "Magic! Magic!" filled the air as youngsters tried to gain his
attention. Johnson spent 30 minutes watching a
teachers-vs.-students basketball game, part of a fund-raiser for the
school's Global Care Unlimited club, which is building a school in
Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's
May 23 elections for parliament have produced some interesting
match-ups, with several prominent government officials facing stiff
competition. One contest pits Prime Minister Meles Zenawi against a
former comrade in arms, Aregash Adane. Aregash Adane seems an
unlikely challenger to one of Africa's most respected leaders. Invited
for an interview about her bid to unseat the prime minister, she arrives
on foot. No aides, no driver, no car. "I'm only a few kilometers
away," she explains, "and I like to walk". Aregash Adane knows
Meles Zenawi well. They are both from Adwa, in the northern Tigray
region. The legislative seat they are contesting represents the town.
She is three years older than the 54-year-old prime minister, but says
they have close family ties.
Ethiopian
artist Yohannes Gedamo, who became prominent in an abstract
expressionist style, has died last Sunday. He was 63.
Artist
Eshetu Tiruneh says Yohannes's paintings were marked by "dynamic forms
and subtle and sometimes striking interplays of colors and were they are
even looked from far" Similarly Artist Bekele Mekonnen Says "He was a
modern painter.
According to Yohannes's website Susan B. from
Fecho Art Council says "Yohannes Gedamu's painting immediately engages
the attention of the viewer. His hearty hues & heavy brush strokes
intermingled with thin glazes and dramatic contrasts serve to create
visionary paintings with great physical energy and presence.
 ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia hopes to
exploit growing business ties with China, India and Turkey to attract
middle class visitors from those countries and boost its largely
untapped tourism sector. China and India have displaced many
western countries as the major investors in Africa, including Ethiopia,
where they have invested billions of dollars in recent years. Turkey,
with a burgeoning middle class, is negotiating a plan with Ethiopia to
set up an industrial zone for Turkish companies near Addis Ababa to
export agricultural commodities and leather goods.
 Editors Note: It is really Sad today,
recently we lost creator of “Astawesalehu” and now Sahel Degago. Who is
he? Sahle Degago has spent his whole musical career among the
Imperial Bodyguard Orchestra. An inspired melodist, a delicate
songwriter and above all an arranger as sophisticated as prolific, he
was the main architect of the successes of other members of the
Orchestra such as Tilahoun Gessesse, Bezunesh Bekele or Mahmoud Ahmed. .... more
A New poetry book entitled 'Yediviwu Likift" [The Craze
of Diversity Visa(DV) Lottery] written by Anteneh Wondimu.
The
book contains a collection of 86 poems, which he wrote in the last four
years inspired by his life experiences, the writing of that book time.
Every
year many people fill DV lottery forms to go to United States for a
better future. That's the main theme of the book.
As he tells the
story, a long time ago he himself went to fill the forms on the
deadline day of the DV lottery. Because of that he missed his working
hours and in consequence he was punished by his office manager.
 An attorney in Seattle sees Lebanese
government statements about an incomplete investigation of the crash of
Ethiopia Airlines Flight 409 in January as inappropriate. “Until
the final findings of the probe are known, it seems gross speculation
for anyone to try to determine what may or may not have happened and to
say what the cause of the crash may be,” said Lembhard Howell to VOA. Howell,
whose legal practice includes representing clients in the 1990s
following the crash of an Indian Airlines flight, also said that any
preparations to file a legal suit as a result of the Ethiopian Airlines
crash in January are irresponsible.A Chicago law firm is representing
relatives of 30 passengers from Lebanon who died in the Jan. 25 crash.
 Addis
Ababa, March 12, 2010 (Addis Ababa) - The roundabout located around the
area called “Aware” in Yeka sub-city named after Leipzig City of
Germany was inaugurated here Friday. It was noted that Addis
Ababa and Leipzig sisterly cities had signed twin city agreement that
includes urban management, business exchange, health, education, social,
environmental, solid waste management , culture, art and sport issues
in 2004. The renewal agreement was also signed between the two
cities same day. Mayor of the Addis Ababa City Administration
Kuma Demekissa said the square dedicated to further enhance the twined
and people to people relations of the two cites. The Leipzig city
is a reliable partner for Addis Ababa growth and prosperity. He
said the square would serve as a living testimony of true desire for
fraternity and collaboration. .... Read more. . .
 A GROUP of Rastafarians
living in Shashemene, Ethiopia, yesterday asked a Diaspora Affairs
Committee of Parliament for assistance in lobbying the Government to
urgently establish an embassy in the East African country to provide
greater representation for Jamaicans residing there. In a
submission to the joint select committee reviewing diaspora affairs
yesterday in Gordon House, members of the Jamaica Rastafarian
Development Community (JRDC) made a case for Jamaican diplomatic
presence in Ethiopia. The JRDC argued that although there was a
Jamaican honorary consul represented by an Ethiopian in that country,
there was inadequate Jamaican consular and diplomatic presence in the
capital, Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia striving to secure trademark for its specialty
coffee
NAIROBI, Kenya, March 10 (UPI) -- East Africa is
emerging as the next oil boom following a big strike in Uganda's Lake
Albert Basin. Other oil and natural gas reserves have been found in
Tanzania and Mozambique and exploration is under way in Ethiopia and
even war-torn Somalia.
The region, until recently largely ignored
by the energy industry, is "the last real high-potential area in the
world that hasn't been fully explored," says Richard Schmitt, chief
executive officer of Dubai's Black Marlin Energy, which is prospecting
in East Africa.
The discovery at Lake Albert, in the center of
Africa between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, is estimated
to contain the equivalent of several billion barrels of oil. It is
likely to be the biggest onshore field found south of the Sahara Desert
in two decades.
 The
African Ambassadors’ Spouses Group in Addis Ababa (AASG), Ethiopia, and
the African Union Commission (AUC) will on Saturday 13 March 2010, from
09 am to 17 pm, jointly organising a bazaar dubbed "Charity Bazaar", in
the compound of the headquarters of the African Union Commission in
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The bazaar is aimed at raising funds for
humanitarian aids to the needy in Ethiopia. It will bring together NGOs
dealing with humanitarian issues, Representatives of AU Members States
Embassies based in Addis Ababa, the Diplomatic international and
continental communities, students amongst others.
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