Statement by IMF Deputy Managing Director Takatoshi Kato at the Conclusion of a Visit to Ethiopia. "The Ethiopian economy has made good progress in recent years. After a significant drought-related contraction in 2002/03, the economy rebounded with an annual average growth rate of nearly 11 percent during 2003/04 - 2005/06 - significantly above the average of less than 6 percent realized in sub-Saharan African countries.
Ethiopia keeps booming
afrol News, 9 March -
No oil, no precious
minerals are driving Ethiopia's economic growth forwards by two digits each
year. Hard work, economic reform and investments in its people and
infrastructure are showing results to lift one of the world's poorest
nations up to new heights....
A Chapter in the History of the Italian Fascist Occupation of Ethiopia Italian colonialism, like virtually all modern European colonialism, was from its inception inherently at least partially racist. Italy’s “first-born” colony, Eritrea - Bairu Tafla's homeland, was thus characterised from the outset by considerable racial discrimination. Italian and “native” housing in Asmara, and other Eritrean towns, thus tended to be separate. The principle of different schools for Italians and “natives” in the colony was officially decreed as early as 1909, and urban segregation in Asmara in 1916. No less significant was the institution of “madamismo”, by which Italians officials, soldiers and others, took “native” wives/concubines/mistresses, who had virtually no rights at law.
Kidnap Britons 'seen' in Eritrea
Foreign Minister Seyum says his government does not know who the abductors
are....and every body else say the hostages are in Eritrea! May be Eritrea
has become a heaven for terrorist because they have no government like
Somalia! More reason to be mindful.
Millennium Festival success hinges on grassroots participation: Deputy PM Addis Ababa, March 09, 2007 - Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Addisu Legese said the Council of Ministers is undertaking extensive activities to facilitate Ethiopian millennium celebration colorfully. The first meeting of the executive committee the Ethiopian Millennium Festival National Council (EMFNC) has approved a 10.6 million Birr budget and a new logo for the millennium.
Civil Service College to launch five post-graduate programs this month: Addis Ababa, March 06, 2007 (WIC) – The Ethiopian Civil Service College said it would launch five post-graduate programs, out of which two are new to the country, by the end of this month.
First private FM radio to start broadcasting on Saturday: Addis Ababa, March 06, 2007 (WIC) – The first private FM radio in the country, Fana FM 98.1, will start regular broadcasting on Saturday, Manager of Radio Fana disclosed.
Women urged to ensure equality in upcoming Millennium; Adama, March 06, 2007 (WIC) - The new millennium should be an epoch when women extricate themselves from backward traditional practices and economic dependence thus asserting their equality, the Adama town Women's Affairs Office underscored
Lalibella town making preparations to host tourists coming for Millennium celebrations:
Warning to Eritrea over seized Britons. Britain warned Eritrea last night that it expected the prompt release of a group of diplomat tourists after claims that Eritrean soldiers were behind a cross-border raid on a remote region of neighbouring Ethiopia.
War Is Not a Game..or Is It? Engineer Ghirma: March 4, 2007
PAR-Team claims discovering human fossil remains considerably older than Lucy, partial elephant skeleton. Addis Ababa, March 03, 2007 (WIC) - Fossil remains of humans and elephants have recently been discovered within the Afar Triangle in Galili area of Somali State, with the human fossil remains being considerably older than Lucy, a Paleo-Anthropological Research Team (PAR-Team) disclosed here today.
Eritrea imposes more restrictions on UNMEE Addis Ababa, March 03, 2007 (WIC) - Eritrea recently imposed more restrictions on the United Nations peacekeeping mission (UNMEE) monitoring the ceasefire, further reducing the world body’s effectiveness in the area, a UN spokesperson said yesterday.
EPRDF IS CAPABLE BUT IT TOO, HAS A BLIND SPOT. By: Teshome Abebe
111th
Adowa Victory Celebrated Throughout Ethiopia.
AZEB MESFIN: A Wife of a Prime Minster or a Symbol of Heroines? By DejatKassa: As we the cyber people know, the First Ladies of Zambia Mrs. Maureen Mwanawasa, Rwanda Mrs. Jeannette Kagame, and Ethiopia Mrs. Azeb Mesfin have received the ‘Let Freedom Ring’ award from Georgetown University on behalf of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS. Georgetown University has made a commendable job for honoring organizations and individuals who are working to bring Africa out her ills. Full Story
Gov’t Must Proceed in a World all the Wiser
In many ways, the EPRDF is a model party for
the rest of Africa. Since reaching power more than 15 years ago, the ruling
party became a kind of modern benchmark on how to remain a sovereign power
and party, but at the same time satisfy the needs and requests of the ever
important donor nations and organisations that provide not only a
substantial chunk of the national budget, but crucial infrastructure and
development work, too. (Source: Addis-Fortune)
Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front,
1975-1991 (African Studies)
Almost
unnoticed, in the wake of the overthrow of Emperor Haile-Selassie, the
coming to power of the military, and the ongoing independence struggle in
Eritrea, a band of students launched an insurrection from the northern
Ethiopian province of Tigray. Calling themselves the Tigray People's
Liberation Front (TPLF), they built close relations with Tigray's
poverty-stricken peasants and on this basis liberated the province in 1989,
and formed an ethnic-based coalition of opposition forces that assumed state
power in 1991. This book chronicles that history and focuses in particular
on the relationship of the revolutionaries with Ethiopia's peasants.
"Make sure that you check their shoes so that they don't take the soil of my
country!" (Emperor
Yohannes IV) "I am greedy for its land fragments, let alone for its
territorial integrity" (Emperor
Yohannes IV)
Mekelle Institute of Technology
Sacred sites of Ethiopia: Scared sites are the most loved and visited places on planet earth. Since prehistoric times they have exerted a mysterious attraction on billions of pilgrims from every region and religion. These holy places have the power to heal the body, enlighten the mind, and awaken the soul. Anthropologist Martin Gray spent 20 years as a wandering pilgrim to study and artistically photograph 1000 sacred sites in 80 countries. This web site features Martin’s sacred art photographs and shows the location of sacred places and pilgrimage shrines around the world