Memoir of Kobelew!!

A tribute to “Kobelew” martyred ANDM founder by the late Eyasu Berhe!

(From our Archives)

5th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON FEDERALISM TO TAKE PLACE IN ADDIS ABEBA ETHIOPIA FROM 14 to 16 December 2010
Conference Theme: ‘EQUALITY AND UNITY IN DIVERSITY FOR DEVELOPMENT’ INTRODUCTION Ethiopia will host the 5th International Conference on Federalism from December 14 to 16 in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. This will be the latest in a series of unique, practitioner-oriented conferences designed....

A Week in the Horn of Africa
(19/11/2010)

Africa seen as a growing market for Boeing jets
EVERETT, WA. -- Outside of Boeing's gigantic factory, the company reached a milestone Wednesday. Boeing delivered its 900th 777 airliner. The buyer of the 900th 777 (and four other 777-200LR's) is Ethiopian Airlines. The east African country is the link that connects Africa to the rest of the world.

Ethiopia to Introduce One-Year Treasury Bill Auctions From Next Month
Ethiopia will introduce a one-year treasury bill and begin weekly auctions in December, the government said in a letter to the International Monetary Fund. The Horn of Africa nation is planning the sales “to refine our liquidity management capability,”...

See Also:
• Ethiopia, Letter of Intent, and Memorandum of Economic and Financial Policies, October 8, 2010
  
  
• IMF Executive Board Completes Second and Final Review Under Ethiopia’s ESF Arrangement and Approves US$62.67 Million Disbursement
  

Time we learned to hear things we don’t like
Dilwenberu Nega NOV 18, 2010-I was spurred to write on this topic after my attention was drawn to two completely unrelated matters which took place in two different places, but nonetheless share an eerie sense of oneness: the need to hear things we don’t like. The first was Ato Lidetu Ayalew’s interview with Washington’s “And Ethiopia Radio,” where he so robustly cut to size the self-styled leader...

WB Vs HRW: What a Yawning Difference
Desta D. Nov 17, 2010-What is it that the World Bank (WB) is watching and Human Rights Watch (HRW) is not willing to watch in Ethiopia? Let me quote a couple of notes from a fresh case study titled “Africa’s Future and the World Bank’s Role in it” and documented by the World Bank...

Ethiopia – A Journey to the Lost Kingdom
Nov 12,2010 -The Ethiopian Embassy, London and the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), jointly organised an event where presentations were given by veteran broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby and cultural historian Gus Casely-Hayford on the documentaries on Ethiopia

Logarithms of Election Politics in Ethiopia
Why Medrek Lost !
Genenew Assefa, Nov 12, 2010- As it will be recalled, the Ethiopian Federalist Democratic Unity Forum -- Medrek was founded in 2010 as a loose coalition of eight parties. Among these include, the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ), which emerged from the CUD shipwreck under a new name...