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Impact of Soaring Food Price in Ethiopia Does Location Matter? (John M. Ulimwengu, Sindu Workneh & Zelekawork Paulos) In Ethiopia, the food inflation rates (end of period) portray a general trend of increasing food prices over the years 2004 to 2008, reaching all-time high levels in 2008. At the national level, the inflation rate steadily […]
Ethiopia plans to develop coal sector Reuters reported that Ethiopia plans to develop its vast coal reserves in the west of the country for fertilizer and power generation, at an estimated cost of USD 730 million. Mr Girma Birru trade and industry minister of Ethiopia said that his ministry had signed an agreement with state […]
According to the joint Government and humanitarian partners’ appeal, the total net emergency requirement, including food needs for the year and non food needs for the first six months of 2009, amounts to USD 454,369,769. The Crop and Food Supply Assessment Missions’ (CFSAM) report indicates that cereal and pulse production during the meher 2008/09 season […]
Reuters reported that Ethiopia has set aside ETB 8 billion to construct new roads and upgrade dilapidated ones in 2009. The nation’s roads have suffered decades of neglect but the government has said that the network’s expansion is a top priority. Crumbling or overloaded infrastructure is seen as an obstacle to economic development in many […]
Zar’a Ya’aqob: The ethiopian philosopher founder of “Hatataism” If the French René Descartes is regarded as the pioneer of “Modern Philosophy”, if many believe that Kant – the philosopher who borrowed the concept of the “Thing in itself” or “Noumenon” from the Amo, the philosopher of Guinea in Africa – is the “greatest philosopher” of […]
