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Eritrea should break the shackles on Irob abductees and let them free
I’m not sure if it is out of feeling personal responsibility, social justice or community pride, but I can not seem to stop asking the question; where are the more than 100 innocent Irob abductees, who were taken by the Eritrean government in 1998, 1999 and 2000, today? And who is speaking for them?


Amhara Endowment Gets Loan for Phone Assembly
Tiret, the Amhara Nation Democratic Movement (ANDM) endowment, signed a 56.7 million Br loan agreement with the Development Bank of Ethiopia (DBE) for a mobile phone assembly plant to be established in Bahir Dar, while it is preparing to seek more loans for the malt factory that is in the pipeline.

Nations and Nationalities Day celebrated in Washington, D.C.
Washington DC 12/20/09-(Aigaforum) Nations, Nationalities and People’s Day of Ethiopia was colorfully celebrated for a fourth consecutive year at the ballroom of the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, D.C. last Sunday. President Shiferaw Shigute, the Chief Administrator of the Southern Regional State of Ethiopia who was in a working tour in the U.S. addressed the gathering which attracted over two hundred attendees from the Washington Metro area

Ethiopia's underground churches a historic wonde
Lalibela churches hewn from volcanic rock 800 years ago, still inspire awe.
By Mercedes Sayagues December 19, 2009 -- Ten centuries ago, King Lalibela had a vision: That his capital, Roha, in what is now northern Ethiopia, would equal Jerusalem in spiritual and architectural glory ....(waltainfo.com)

Civility Forum moderator and Hebrezema webmaster had a short interview with Prime Minister Meles on the current Climate Negotiation and its outcome in Copenhagen.
 
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For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow, which nobody can deny
Meles Zenawi delivered hope and pride to Africans
Dilwenberu Nega 12/19/09:-
In his speech at the National Palace’s warm and colourful send off ceremony in honour of Africa’s Delegation to COP15 on 12th December, Africa’s Chief Climate Change Negotiator, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, asked for “a bucketful of good luck because I need it in the days ahead.”


Micro Credit Programs in Ethiopia Green Washing or Environmentally Sustainable Development Part I
Desta, Asayehgn, (Ph.D), Distinguished Professor of Managerial Economics, Dominican University of California.:-
In an era of unprecedented world-wide economic growth, it is interesting to note that the richest fifth of the world’s people consume 86 percent of all goods and services while about a fifth of the world’s poor population (1.2 billion people) still live on less than US $1 a day and almost half of the world’s population live on less than US $2 a day

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