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Music Publishing Group (UMPG) announced the promotion of Ethiopia
Habtemariam to Senior Vice President/Head of Urban Music. Habtemariam
was previously Vice President of Urban Music. Based in New York,
Habtemariam is responsible for finding and developing songwriters,
artists, and producers for the urban music department of Universal Music
Publishing Group, and has signed some of music’s biggest superstars,
including; multi-platinum recording artist and songwriter Chris Brown,
breakthrough artist and songwriter Keri Hilson, gold recording artist
and songwriter Ciara, BMI Songwriter of the Year and Producer of the
Year Polow Da Don, Andre Merrit, Candice Nelson, Balewa Muhammad,
Ezekiel Lewis (The Clutch), Rock City, and Brian Kennedy to name a few. In
addition to talent acquisition, Habtemariam works to create new
opportunities for the company’s current roster of writers to exploit
catalog, and serve as a liaison between the writers, record companies
and the publishing group in order to place songs and writers on upcoming
artist projects, soundtracks, and compilations.
APA-Moscow (Russia)
The Ethiopian diplomatic representation in Moscow intends to increase
Russian tourism from 2000 to 5000 people in the next few years, and in
order to speedily achieve this, it has established an Ethiopian club,
which includes over 30 domestic tour operators, Amha Hailegeorgis,
third secretary at the Ethiopian embassy in Moscow told APA on Monday.
In addition, the Ethiopian government has set aside funds for free press tours, he informed.
“Currently, more than 30 Russian tour operators have
expressed interest in promoting Ethiopia in the Russian travel market.
And ten players have already become members of the club,” Hailegeorgis
said.
By Tesfa Alem Tekle
December 26, 2009 (ADDIS ABABA) – Ethiopia’s biggest opposition
coalition, Forum for Democratic Dialogue (FDD-MEDREK), who accused
government of obstructing foreign aid on Saturday said that its members
are being arrested for speaking-out on the alleged aid abuse.
Last month, the opposition group accused Prime minister Meles
Zenawi-led government of politicizing foreign-funded humanitarian
assistance, using it as a weapon to retain power in next year’s
election.
African countries, worst hit by the effects of climate change, were bullied into a deal that does little to help them
Climate change
is frequently a matter of life and death for many Africans. From
whatever angle you look at it, the climate change "deal" that was
bulldozed through by rich nations at the Copenhagen climate conference was a disaster for Africa. Compared
with rich nations who dictated the terms of the "deal", African
countries contribute the least to greenhouse emissions. However, they
suffer the consequences the most. African nations will again
disproportionally feel the pinch of this deal.
One of the hottest
issues around Addis Ababa is the problem of solving the rampant
copyright infringements that can be seen all over the city. Hawkers
walk around the city in broad daylight selling CD, VCD and DVD copies
of music and movies (both local and foreign.)
Prices
range from 5 ETB for a VCD, 4 or less ETB if buying more, to 25 ETB for
the latest movie that was released a week ago on DVD. Meanwhile, the
same in original would cost around 25 ETB for the former and 50 ETB for
the latter. The mean difference here is 22 ETB. It is this mean
difference that is being fought for.
Aklilu Ayenew (left) scored Ethiopia's opener against DjiboutiEthiopia have moved to the top of their group at
the Cecafa Senior Challenge Cup after 5-0 win over Djibouti in Nairobi
on Monday. The two teams were locked at 0-0 at half-time, but the Ethiopians unleashed their strikers in the second period.
HTML clipboardIt may have a modest exchange rate value of about eight cents US (It takes 12.56
birr to equal one US dollar, according the most recent issue of MRI Banker’s Guide to Foreign Currency, but frugal Ethiopia has recently recognized it
is more economical to have a 1-birr coin rather than a 1-birr bank note in
circulation.
Bahir Dar, Ethiopia: As is well known, we are already started to
witness the effects of global warming. The population of the developing
world is the major victim of climate change, which is mainly caused by
the developed world. This does not mean that developing
countries have nothing to do to reverse the situation. Instead, they
have to do their homework as part of the fight against global warming. The
city where I am working as a UNV volunteer is called Bahir Dar. Every
year, its temperature is becoming more and more hot and humid. It is
becoming more and more difficult to walk around the city at daytime due
to the increasing temperature and dust emerging from the earth roads.
The fields stretch out across the horizon. An attenuated,
high altitude light falls on the dark volcanic soils. The rusted hulks of
dead war machines litter the roads. A shepherd boy smacks a goat into line,
driving them all back into line. Baboons scamper across the highway. The
main north-south artery between Addis Ababa and Axum is a dirt road. It is a
more fecund land than I ever expected. But who could blame me for thinking
otherwise? After all, in the 1980s Ethiopia was a famine crippled land.
Dessie, November 7 (WIC) – The
Lalibela Town Administration Culture and Tourism Department said over
7,000 foreign tourists have visited the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela
and its environs over the past four month.
Department Head, Belete Wodaje, told WIC today that that the tourists have visited the 11 rock-hewn churches of Lalibela and other historical, religious and natural tourist attraction sites in the area.
Ethiopia's fight against HIV/AIDS received a boost in February when
the country's top health ministry officials agreed to allow private
health care clinics to provide patients with antiretroviral medicines.
The officials reached the agreement during a meeting with a contractor for USAID. Representing that contractor was former Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholar Kathleen Poer.
"I
could navigate this complex policy issue because I understood the
cultural milieu, listened carefully to the advice of my Ethiopian
colleagues, and tried to think about how local norms would influence
the meeting," she says.
Ybase Chekol, an Ethiopian Christian man, says his ancestors were
among a group of Jews known as the Falash Mura who were forced to
convert to Christianity more than 100 years ago.
Now, he and his family have moved to Israel, where Israeli law
allows the Falash Mura to become citizens - if they embrace Judaism.
But as Al Jazeera's Nicole Johnston reports from Jerusalem,
discrimination makes it hard for many of these immigrants to succeed in
Israeli society.
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia wants to emulate Brazil by
developing biofuels to cut its dependence on oil imports that cost the
Horn of Africa nation more than a billion dollars a year, a government
official said
Ephrem Hassen, coordinator of biofuels development in the Ministry
of Mines and Energy, told Reuters in an interview that Ethiopia was
developing biofuel crops on more than half a million hectares of arid
land.
Small farmers near Bahir Dar, Ethiopia, are testing a carbon offset market facilitated by mobile phones.One of the most daunting hurdles for the trade in carbon offsets is
the logistical challenge of connecting customers — typically carbon
dioxide emitting companies based in America or Europe — with offset
producers in places like South America, Asia, and Africa.
With the help of an innovative new program developed by Veli
Pohjonen and the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, however, this
global interaction may soon become as easy as sending a text message.
By Tsegaye Tadesse
ADDIS ABABA, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Ethiopia appealed on Thursday for 159,410 tonnes of emergency aid to feed 6.2 million people, 25 years after more than a million perished in the country's notorious famine.
Aid workers say a five-year drought is afflicting more than 23 million people in seven east African nations.
Mitiku Kassa, Ethiopia's State Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development, said this year's rains were especially poor.
"As a result, the number of people needing emergency assistance during the period Oct.-Dec. 2009 has increased to 6.2 million from 4.9 million at beginning of the year," he said.
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