Legacy
Eneyew Zeleke 08-26-17 - The memorial conferences being held in relation to the 5
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anniversary of the passing away of the late PM Meles Zenawi initiated me to reflect my own memory of the new epoch.
Ashenda Festival Ethiopian women celebrate traditions, culture and religion
REST: Environmental Rehabilitation and Agricultural Development.
G/hiwet Gebru Mekelle 08-26-17 - After Ethiopias Tigray region won Gold in the 2017 Future Policy Award for worlds best policies for tackling land degradation organized by the World Future Council and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), different people...
Focusing on problems of the Youth
Bereket Gebru 08-25-17- Last year's events in Ethiopia have showcased the anger and disappointment of the youth. Although the active participation of the youth in last ...
Ethiopia Hits the Jackpot
Amen Teferi
08-25-17 - Last week US sees the total coast to coast solar eclipse and people were flocking to states like Oregon,Nebraska, Missouri all the way to South Carolina to witness the staggering view of eclipse that traverse across the USA.
Can Ethiopia be Africa's leading manufacturing hub?
The park, claimed to be the biggest in Africa, is 140 hectares (350 acres) of factories, with a water treatment plant and its own textile mill.Six months after opening in southern Ethiopia, 10,000 people already work here, and at full capacity it is expected to provide 60,000 jobs."The pay isn't great," says one 20-year-old, who trained for six months to sew and cut.
It is amazing to watch what the EPRDF government has done to Ethiopia! With all its past glory, only today's Ethiopia has tangible and meaningful meaning to millions of Ethiopians from North to South and East to West! Thank you Dr Arkebe! Let us give credit where it is due!
Ethiopia's Tigray Region bags gold award for greening its dry-lands
ROME, Aug 22 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A major project to restore land in Ethiopia's Tigray Region to boost millions of people's ability to grow food won gold on Tuesday in a U.N.-backed award for the world's best policies to combat desertification and improve fertility of drylands.
Authority collects over 135 bln birr
Addis Ababa, August 22, 2017 (FBC) The Ethiopian Revenues and Customs Authority (ERCA) collected 135.5 billion birr last Ethiopian budget year (2016/17).The authority was able to achieve 86 percent of its plan to collect 173.1 billion birr, according to Fasika Belay, education and communication deputy director of EECA.
(Isayas A.) 08-23-17 - Years back I was very impressed by the ground work done to rehabilitate the land in Tigrai. I wrote a short note and captured some of the works to highlight the effort by REST and the Regional Government in Tigrai
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Glad the world has noticed the work done by awarding Gold to the Region for its effort to rehabilitate the land! I Hope this effort will be repeated by other regions so Ethiopia is changed for ever in this generation life time!
Decentralization
bolstering unity in diversity
Fekadu Wubte 08-22-17 - Muhammed Kursi and Zemzem Mustefa , both residents of Semera in Afar Regional State on August 18, 2017, said that the current federal system of administration has enabled to ensure their equitable benefit from the fruits of development of the country. They commended on the very fact that...