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Ethiopian NewsThree young Ethiopian researchers win Tore Global PrizePublished: Mar 18, 2010 by bini
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 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. Liquid nitrogen manufacturing factory inaugurated in Gondor TownPublished: Mar 18, 2010 by bini
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 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. PM Meles Zenawi Addressing the Parliament on AID divert to buy weaponsPublished: Mar 18, 2010 by bini
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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.
Hoops star Magic Johnson supports school's charity program for EthiopiaPublished: Mar 18, 2010 by bini
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 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. Election 2010 Interesting match-ups - Mr. Meles Vs Ms. AregashPublished: Mar 17, 2010 by Helly
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 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. Abstract Artist Yohannes Gedamo passed AwayPublished: Mar 17, 2010 by Helly
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Ethiopia wants to attract tourists from China, IndiaPublished: Mar 17, 2010 by Helly
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 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. Music composer and arranger Sahel Degago passed away - VideoPublished: Mar 15, 2010 by bini
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 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. Revealing DV lottery craze in Ethiopia - A New Book releasedPublished: Mar 14, 2010 by bini
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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. Lawyer cautions about Ethiopian Airlines crash reportsPublished: Mar 13, 2010 by bini
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 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. Aware roundabout named after Leipzig City of GermanyPublished: Mar 13, 2010 by Helly
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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. Rastafarians want embassy in EthiopiaPublished: Mar 12, 2010 by Helly
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 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 coffeePublished: Mar 11, 2010 by bini
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Ethiopia striving to secure trademark for its specialty
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East Africa is next hot oil zone, may be Ethiopia tooPublished: Mar 11, 2010 by bini
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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. African ambassador’s spouses charity bazaarPublished: Mar 11, 2010 by bini
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 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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artist Yohannes Gedamo, who became prominent in an abstract
expressionist style, has died last Sunday. He was 63. 
