Professor Tecola W. Hagos on:
Part one - THE UGLY AMERICAN AND HIS JEWEL BOX
Part two - The Ugly American - THE HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE: MELES ZENAWI AND MOHAMMAD AL-AMOUDI
Part three - THE UGLY AMERICAN: HOPE AND REDEMPTION FOR ALL
Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi Business Profile
MIDROC Ethiopia Investment Group - is a holding company for over 30 enterprises and business interests in diversified sectors. Managed under parent MIDROC Group is MIDROC Ethiopia Technology Group which has 11 businesses under its management:
- MIDROC Gold Mine PLC
- ELFORA Agro-Industries PLC
- Huda Real Estate PLC
- Kombolcha Steel Products Industries PLC (KOSPI)
- Modern Building Industries PLC (MBI)
- Trust Protection and Personnel Services PLC
- Addis Home Depot PLC
- Trans Nation Airways PLC
- Addis Gas & Plastics Industry PLC
- Wanza Furnishings Industry PLC
- Daylight Applied Technologies PLC
Ethiopia: After Seven Years, High Court Acquits Former CBE Chief on One Count
Judges at the Federal High Court, First Criminal Bench, unanimously passed a ruling on Thursday, March 13, 2008, acquitting two of the former senior managers of Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), after seven years of fighting multiple charges from jail.
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Internet in Ethiopia - Is Ethiopia Off-line or Wired to the Rim?
Detail analysis on Ethiopia Technology development
The Capital Interview: Envoy Seeks Support for Ethiopia, Aid for Somalia
"... Now, our law rejects foreign funding of political parties. It is illegal. Our government is supposed to be accountable to its people. Representatives are supposed to be accountable to their constituents. "Accountability" here [in the U.S. legislation] means accountability to a foreign government, not to our own people."
Ethiopian Verdict on ActionAid Worker Put Off Again
AU troops targets in Somalia:Al Shabab
Egypt issues controversial statement on Ethiopia pull out
Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty formed
Gebru Asrat on VOA-Amharic (Start at 11 min) VOA - November 12, 2007
Exclusive Interview with Arena Tigray Chairman Ato Gebru Asrat (Reporter -November 11, 2007)
Arena Tigray intends to regain Assab Port through legal means
(Reporter -November 11, 2007)
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"They were an unusual army, though. Discipline was self-imposed. The troops didn't even have uniforms, and foot drill
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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)
In the wake of the overthrow of the Haile-Selassie regime in Ethiopia in 1974 and the coming to power of the military, a number of oppositions
ECX launches first electronic banking gateway
Concludes partnership with Dashen, CBE
If Barack Obama Becomes the Next President of the United States! A Comparative and International Politics Perspective By Ghelawdewos Araia
The campaign slogan of Barack Obama, 'Change We Can Believe In,' quintessentially manifests the current mood in the United States: the electorate is no longer polarized along racial lines although the residue of institutionalized racism lives on.
Ethiopia Taps Grain Exchange In Its Battle on Hunger
Eternal Woyane with NO Apology!In Memory of Lekatit 11
Bloody 'obstruction' arrest leads to acquittal
Green shoots of recovery
Ethiopia is bucking gloomy global business trends, with a little help from an unlikely economic friend - floriculture
More than 80,000 jobs have been created in or around 77 flower farm companies. Government tax and investment incentives, and low labour costs even by African standards, mean Ethiopia is beginning to edge out traditional suppliers such as Kenya.
Al-Amoudi Plans Largest Agro Investment 
In the largest single agricultural investment, Ethiopia's richest man Sheik Mohammed Hussein Ali Al-Amoudi, joined the bio-fuel sector in a joint venture with Jemal Ahmed, one of the biggest edible and palm oil importers in the country.
Al-amoudi to construct chain of hotels
Sheik Mohamed Al Amoudi vows to intensify investment in Tigray, honored with martyrs' medal
Business tycoon to build over 50 mln birr library for Addis Ababa University
Inter Global to Explore for Oil in Northeast
The woman behind the biggest dream
Eleni G.Medhin: Yes, we're going very fast. I think we are fortunate to have a combination of the research we already had, a private sector looking for solutions and a government that is willing to listen to a research and ideas.
The "Browning" of African Technology
Still Waiting for Gov't to Open Gates for Telecom Progress
Next door, war-torn Somalia enjoys telecom free market competition in the absence of a stable central government and the subsequent cheap rates. Neighbouring Uganda has flourished in Internet service provision (ISP) with upwards of 40 licensed ISPs. But these successes are the result of competition and not state sanctioned monopolies as exist here.
Ethiopia has fastest growing non-Oil Economy in Africa - IMF
According to the IMF Gross Domestic Product (GDP) figures for 2007, Ethiopia had the fastest growing economy in Africa among countries whose economy is not driven by Oil revenue.
Ethiopians get texting in Amharic
Tigrai.net Persons of the Year 2007
Keepers of the Lost Ark?
Christians in Ethiopia have long claimed to have the ark of the covenant. Our reporter investigated
History unearthed in Tigray Is legend to become fact?
A major archeological find has been unearthed at a location just outside the small town of Wukro, located about 40 kms north of Mekelle, capital of Tigray region.
In trademarking its coffee, Ethiopia seeks fair trade
The move could help the country's coffee growers to earn some $88 million more per year.
EIIPD President Professor Kinfe passes away
Addis Ababa, November 9, 2007 (WIC) - President of the Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development (EIIPD), Professor Kinfe Abraham, passed away yesterday after a brief illness.
Low-cost laptop deals heat up
Intel, OLPC supply special computers to students in developing nations
Is Ethiopia becoming global investors' hub?
Investors from 30 different countries obtain licenses in just 30 day. These are some of the latest investment data obtained from the Ethiopian Investment Agency, which reveals that the number of foreign investors coming to Ethiopia is increasing.
UN Move on Eritrea-Ethiopia Border Issue Raises Fears of Stalemate Collapse
In a report to the U.N. secretary-general this week, an international boundary commission trying to create a permanent border between Ethiopia and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa said that the body will likely dissolve at the end of next month without reaching a comprehensive agreement.
Eritrea accuses Ethiopia of plotting to invade
Tigray Rock Climbing Team
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Do you know about Ethiopia?
Ethiopia is the cradle of humankind
Ethiopia has its own ancient caledar
Archaeologist Graham Hancock who is the author of The Orion Mystery believes that the Ark resides in a chaptel in Axum, a city in Ethiopia and is guarded by a dedicated monk sworn to protect the Ark.
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Dr. Greg Brown embeded in Mekelle
Going Home:
One father. One Daughter - One journey back to Ethiopia in search of the man he used to be
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Vertical Ethiopia, Climbing Toward Possibility in the Horn of Africa
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi Interview on the occasion of February 11
Part I
Part II
Part III
An Invitation Letter for All Tigrians To Join Tslal Tegaru
In order for all tigrians regardless of their political stand to participate in this journey, we advocate that the network/Umbrella Organization be politics blind; and be dictated by our national interests in the development of our people.
Axum Schools Alumni Association
Ras Alula Development Association
Development Association of Shire
Ethiopian flower export
Kenya: Eldoret to Be New Flower Centre
"It has taken Ethiopia five years to achieve half of what we have in three decades," Kenya Flower Council chairman Erastus Mureithi said recently.
Tigray State to Get 200m Br Vineyard
The Tigray Region is primarily chosen due to its environmental suitability for grape production as its climate is closer to that found by the Mediterranean Sea, said company sources.
The Parrot Flower from Thailand
The plant was identified at the Royal Botanical Garden Kew in 1901 and was discovered in 1899 in the Shaw States of Burma. It is only found in portions of Burma and northern Thailand and as such is quite rare.
Sociocultural and Relief Association of Tigraian Ethiopians in Alberta, Canada
An alternative Tigraigna Audio & Video Library
Upcoming
Atseyohannes 5th Anniversary Reunion 2008 - May 24, 2008
Ethiopian/Tigraigna Music Video
Tigrigna Video PART1 , PART2
Beyoncé, Ludacris to Dazzle Addis
Finally, the much talked about - if not highly anticipated - performance by the
international Pop and R&B icon, Beyoncé Giselle Knowles, in Addis Abeba is real. According to a reliable source, the deal for Beyoncé to thrill her fans in Ethiopia is 99.9pc done.
The Great Mahmoud Ahmed, winner of BBC 3, World Music award- Africa Category
Axum Schools Alumni Association
Ras Alula Development Association
Development Association of Shire
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Interesting Facts About Ethiopia
Did you know that Ethiopia is the third largest nut producing country in the world?
Did you also know that Ethiopia is the sixth biggest producer of timber in the world?
Ethiopia has the world's third largest beehives with more than 4,300,000 beehives.
Ethiopia has the largest cattle population in Africa and ranks number 6 in the world right below Argentina with more than 38 million cattle.
Ethiopia is also home to one of the biggest horse population in the world. With more than 1,500,000 horses, Ethiopia ranks number 9 in the world in horse population and number 1 in Africa.
Ethiopia is Africa's largest coffee producing country and the second largest producer of cut flowers in Africa.