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Ethiopia has launched an electric car, despite suffering from power shortages. It is only the second African country to do so, after South Africa.
Two versions of the Solaris Elettra will be manufactured in Addis Ababa, costing around $12,000 and $15,000.
Comment:  It is good BBC has realized Ethiopia's electric shortage.It seems BBC and the likes have a catch 22 story to tell! What will be more interesting is, for BBC to realize and tell readers also the fallacy of International Water and their cohorts attempt to derail the building of GilGel Gibe III Hydro power project. If Ethiopia has shortage of power should it try to build carbon neutral energy source like Gibe III or a carbon rich one?

FREEDOM OF SPEECH: The Paradox of its Exercise
Mesfin Ayenew:- There appears to be ferocious and well orchestrated onslaughts to derail the progress made and discredit the achievements accomplished. These attacks have become vicious and frequent at a time when Ethiopia is prepared to hold its fourth national and regional elections. Obviously, these attacks are intended to incite violence and create disorder. This must be opposed categorically...

VOA AMHARIC PROGRAM NEEDS TO BE INVESTIGATED BY AN INDEPENDENT BODY
By Mathza-
The objective of this piece is to contribute to the on-going discussion on the jamming of the VOA Amharic program...We, the readers have, since EPRDF came to power, been listening to VOA relentlessly serving the interests of the opposition. It resorts to all kinds of dirty tactics and tricks, and destabilizing propaganda. These include:


Stable Ethiopia now needs international and local support
By Charles Tannock,-
Two decades ago, Ethiopia was a Cold War battlefield. On the ideological map of the world, it was Soviet territory, a land of famine, dictatorship and civil war. Today, it ranks among the five fastest-growing economies in the world and is a bastion of regional stability.That stability matters, because the Horn of Africa is becoming a security headache once again. If the region is to be stabilised, Ethiopia will need to play a key part.

HRW’s latest attempt to influence voting in Ethiopia
few weeks ago we warned that Human Rights Watch was probably planning to issue another of its determined attempts to affect the results of Ethiopia’s electoral process. It did just that a week or two before the National and Federal elections in May 2005; it repeated its efforts before the local elections in April 2008. Now it is doing so again, in advance of the May elections this year...
See Also: 
A Week in the Horn
(26.03.2010)


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