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Heavy Government in Rich Countries

Trying Time for Ethiopian Independent Press
After Ethiopia’s military regime of Col. Mengistu Haile-Mariam was ousted from power by the forces of EPRDF some 13 years ago, many thought that a new day where press freedom would flourish unhampered in this ancient land had finally arrived.
No, no such luck! It looks that once again a new Ethiopian year, about to be ushered in, would start on a bad note with persisting sour relationship between the authorities and the independent press.

An outstanding Math Teacher retires his chalk and duster

Addis Ababa renames its streets after AU countries
ADDIS ABABA Addis Ababa city council is renaming streets and thoroughfares after the 52 members of the African Union (AU).

City Administration Offers Land to AU Land Worth Over $50 Million

Tele Awards Internet Service Upgrading Project to Dimension Com for $ 6.7 Mln
The Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC) has offered its Internet Services upgrading project (Broadband Internet Solutions) to a South Africa based IT Company called Dimension Com for about 6.7 million US dollars, ETC official told The Daily Monitor on conditions of anonymity.

African Leaders Arrive for AU Summit

Religious leaders said responsible for creating HIV/AIDS, corruption free society
Makalle, July 4,2004 (WIC)- The Ethiopian Orthodox Church Patriarch, Abune Paulos said that religious leaders have the responsibility of creating HIV/AIDS and corruption free society.

City to Collect Tax Through Banks, Post Office

Mekelle to Get Modern Shopping Centre
One of Ethiopia's oldest towns, Mekelle, will have a set of three and four-story shopping centres built by a cooperative organized under the town's chamber of commerce.
Located 783Km north of Addis, and a seat of the Tigray Regional State, Mekelle was established in 1857. Despite its population of 170,000 residents, and a growing number of large complex industries built in and on the outskirts of the town, it lacks a modern shopping facility.
The new shopping complex is planned to be built in a long established market area, Segno Gebeya, in Kebele 12, in the centre of the town.

Soccer to reunite Ethiopians who fled strife in homeland
Soccer has done much for Teshome Beyene. It helped him escape Ethiopia in 1987, when, as a member of the national youth team, he defected from the communist country after a match in Egypt.

Ethiopia brews decaffeinated breakthrough
Addis Ababa, June 25,2004 (WIC)- A naturally caffeine-free coffee plant has been found growing wild in Ethiopia, heralding the prospect of a cup of freshly ground arabica that will not keep you awake, reported Business Report today.

ETHIOPIA: UN launches two multimedia centres in the north
ADDIS ABABA, 17 Jun 2004 (IRIN) - The United Nations launched two community multimedia centres (CMCs) on Thursday to enable rural communities to take part in the information technology revolution. The CMCs were opened in Bahir Dar and Lalibela in Amhara State, northern Ethiopia, the UN’s Development Programme (UNDP) said.

G8 Pushes for Land Reform in Ethiopia

UN talks aim to bridge trade gap

EC Launches on-Line Help Desk

Law, custom clash in Ethiopia rape case

ABADJEMA, Ethiopia — She rushed through the tangled brush of onion farms and up the knobby footpaths of her village. Her shirt was bloody, her clothes were torn and her thighs were bruised a deep purple, recalled the villagers who were drawn by her screams.

Bono Implores EU to Keep 'Deal With God'
Bono Implores EU to Spend More on Forgiving Debts and Combating Spread of AIDS in Africa

DUBLIN, Ireland June 1, 2004 — Rock star Bono lectured European Union governments Tuesday to spend more on forgiving debts and combating the spread of AIDS in Africa, causes that the U2 frontman has championed for the past decade. Bono, the lunchtime speaker to a conference of EU development ministers at Dublin Castle, said most EU states had reneged on a long-standing promise to commit 0.7 percent of their gross domestic product to overseas aid. He called that "renegotiating your deal with God downwards."

Food aid for resettled Ethiopians
The United Nations is moving to provide emergency feeding to 250,000 Ethiopians who have run seriously short of food.
The Ethiopian government's ambitious plans to re-locate hundred of thousands of peasant farmers from the exhausted highlands have run into difficulties.

Nile River countries meet
Entebbe - Ten African countries sharing the River Nile met in Uganda on Monday to discuss a legal framework that would replace colonial laws that give Egypt a preferential use of the river's resources.

University students tour Addis Ababa newspaper

TIGRAINET HIGHLIGHTS

Analysis Proof of Wahabi activities in Ethiopia
A number of interesting articles have recently appeared on the attempted interference by Wahabi fundamentalists in Ethiopian internal religious affairs.
Erudite writers such as Alem Zelalem and Chisu have expressed various interesting and, at times, diametrically opposite views and suggestions. However, no direct and concrete evidence was provided to the readers on the evolving Wahabi fundamentalist mischief in Ethiopia. Assumptions, however plausible, were made based on circumstantial evidence such as the mushrooming of mosques, and the mimicking of Wahabi garb and external symbolic appearances among certain individuals in Ethiopia. [source: Ethiomedia.com]
Note: This article posted here isn't to entertain articles related to Johannes Sebhatu's publication in Ethiomedia and in other Ethiopian web site. Tigrai.net would like to notify its readers that we are not going to post any argument in both sides. However we are concerned about the existence of Wahhabism in Ethiopia and it's danger.

Open Letter Open Letter to the Hon. Congressman Gregory W. Meeks in Reaction to the Letter Entitled "SUPPORT E-E BORDER DEMARCATION" and Addressed to the Members of the Congress of the United States
From: The Reverend Abba Tesfamariam Baraki
An Irob-native Ethiopian-American Citizen
Washington, DC, USA (July 2, 2004)

Press Release Needs Assessment Meeting of the Afar Community in UK (ACA)

Afar Community Association in the UK was held its first meeting on 30th May 2004, at Praxis, in Bethnal Green in Tower Hamlets. The purpose of the meeting was to consult the members of the community to establish their needs. The Management Committee of the Afar Community Association warmly welcomed the participants who came from different Boroughs of London to attend the meeting on their speeches. It has been said that unexpected numbers of people have been attended the meeting. The MC of the ACA explained the objectives, membership procedures, rights and duties and the advantages of having Association in UK to the participants.

Science Decaf coffee, straight from the plant

Brazilian scientists say they have found a rare variety of coffee plant that should provide the world's first cup of naturally decaffeinated but full-tasting coffee.
Professor Paulo Mazzafera of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas and team published their find in today's issue of the journal Nature.
The researchers were screening 3000 coffee bushes grown under a program aimed at reducing caffeine content in coffee beans.
The plants are varieties of Coffea arabica, a species that accounts for 70% of coffee consumed in the world.
Three specimens of the precious variety, which originated in Ethiopia, were "almost completely free" of caffeine, the researchers said.

Entertainment Yordanos Teshager to represent Ethiopia at Miss Intercontinental 2004

Addis Ababa, June 23 (EH)- Yordanos Teshager, the second runner up for the Miss World Ethiopia (MWE) pageant of 2003, is going to China on July 4, 2004 for the Miss Intercontinental beauty pageant. Teshager is the second Ethiopian to participate in the Miss Intercontinental international pageant, according to a press release the Ethiopian Herald received from Ethiopian Fashion Consultancy Group on Monday.
First prize is 100,000 USD and the pageant gives the young ladies the opportunity to land modeling contracts with agents around the world. The Miss Intercontinental competition is scheduled to take place on the 25th of July Hot Hot, China located near Beijing.

Analysis Egypt and the Hydro-Politics of the Blue Nile River
In this respect, an acute observer of the Egyptian scene recently wrote: "Egypt is a country that has not abandoned its expansionist ambitions. It regards its southern neighbors as its sphere of influence. Its strategy is essentially negative: to prevent the emergence of any force that could challenge its hegemony, and to thwart any economic development along the banks of the Nile that could either divert the flow of the water, or decrease its volume.

Speaking of People Tigrai_net congratulates to Ethiopian athletics hero Bekele Kenenisa, the newly world 5000m, 10,000m record champ.

Tigrai_net is proud of you! But the supreme glory, the honour and fame that is yours, is ours also, here in Tigrai_net. You are our hero!

Bekele sets new world record Ethiopian Kenenisa Bekele broke his second world record in nine days when he shattered compatriot Haile Gebrselassie's 10,000m mark. The 22-year-old double world cross country champion clocked 26 minutes 20.31 seconds at the IAAF Super Grand Prix meeting in Ostrava.
He was well inside Gebrselassie's time of 26:22.75 set at Hengelo in the Netherlands six years ago.
On 31 May, Bekele broke Gebrselassie's 5,000m record at the Hengelo meeting.

Analysis THE NILE WATERS: MOVING BEYOND GRIDLOCK
By Gebre Tsadik Degefu, Dr. Jur.
(Continue from last week)
The Nile Waters Agreement of 1929 and related instruments do not provide an example of “dispositive’ or “territorial”, treaties that devolve automatically on all successors under international law. It was a political arrangement between Great Britain and Egypt.

Analysis Who Knows About Tomorrow: the Ethiopian Opium
Addis Fortune (Addis Ababa)
Sissay Wagnew

"Many Ethiopians, today, do not believe, or do not want to believe, that their destinies are in their own hands."

"For many Ethiopians, success in business or any other achievement is somehow associated with crime, magic, or some kind of clairvoyant or supernatural force.
It seems hard for them to believe that somebody starting from scratch could possibly shake the business world. In a world where business is slanting towards more on how smart you are than how on how hard you work, many Ethiopians are running out of the game and they are still expecting manna for tomorrow, with the deceptive fallacy of 'who knows about tomorrow?'"

"If we really want to bring about sound socio-economic change, the right place to start from is with the mind of the people. And I suggest deleting the Man Yawqal software and other encumbering systems. Today, what the people in the streets of Ethiopia need is a transformation of the understanding they have about themselves and their view of the world. We should break the shell of the embedded detrimental cultures and perilous thoughts with a conviction that we are created for change and we are the only drivers of our own socio-cultural and economic changes."

Athletics Ethiopian runner Bekele sets world record in 5,000 meters

Kenenisa Bekele of Ethiopia set the 5,000-meter world record yesterday, surpassing the mark posted by countryman Haile Gebrselassie in 1998.
Bekele finished in 12 minutes, 37.35 seconds at the FBK Games in Hengelo, Netherlands. Gebrselassie was timed in 12:39.36 in Helsinki, Finland.

Addis Tribune - Ed A Cult of Waste
PRIME MINISTER Meles Zenawi was paying a visit to Djibouti last week to inaugurate a multi-million birr embassy in the terrestrial inferno. As usual also, by driving from the Grand Palace to the Bole Airport on his way to the neighbouring minuscule state, the Prime Minister was disrupting the smooth flow of traffic in Addis Ababa at one of the busiest hours of the day – for which infernal problem no solution is yet in sight.

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