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Ethiopia – Is Ethiopia trapped in low productivity?

05 Dec 2009

ADDIS ABABA, December 3, 2009 -- The World Bank recently completed a second “Investment Climate Assessment” (ICA) report for Ethiopia. The ICA looks at the state of the private sector and identifies actions that can reduce policy and other hurdles to helping the private sector become the driver of sustained ...
Israeli Private Schools Refuse to Absorb Ethiopian Students

04 Dec 2009

By Or Kashti | Haaretz Eleven new immigrants from Ethiopia have yet to be placed in Petah Tikva schools, and some have been waiting as long as three weeks for an assignment. Municipal officials claim that the city’s private religious schools – which sparked a nationwide outcry when they refused to ...
How to make Bread using Ethiopian Teff flour

04 Dec 2009

By Susan | Wild Yeast Here’s what we did six or seven weeks ago: We raised bread with sourdough starters made from several ancient grains: amaranth, sorghum, quinoa, millet, and teff. My favorite of these was teff. It’s best known for the Ethiopian staple flatbread injera, but it makes ...
Israeli school directors bound for Ethiopia

04 Dec 2009

By Israel Moskovitch | YNet Dozens of youth village directors have organized a joint trip to Ethiopia in which they will travel through various cities,villages, immigrant camps and Jewish centers. The trip is not for recreation, nor is it being sponsored by the Ministry of education – these leaders will pay ...
Ethiopian ‘virgin land’ for sale

20 Nov 2009

According to the World Bank, as much as three-quarters of Ethiopia’s arable land is not under cultivation, and agronomists say that with substantial capital expenditure, much of it could become bountiful. Since the world food crisis, Meles Zenawi, a former Marxist rebel who has turned into a champion of private ...
U.S. official gives lips service on repression in Ethiopia

20 Nov 2009

US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Bureau of African Affairs Karl Wyckoff and Woyanne Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin held talks on Thursday in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa. On Friday, in a meeting with reporters, Mr Wyckoff expressed concerns about the restrictions on opposition parties in Ethiopia ahead of elections next year, ...
The missing 8.6 million Ethiopians, where art thou?

20 Nov 2009

The missing 8.6 million Ethiopians, where art thou? By yilma bekele I couldn’t sleep all night. I kept turning and tossing to no avail. What was bothering me was what I heard on VOA yesterday afternoon. VOA is Voice of America for those of you not in the know. I found ...
A U.S. citizen survives 107 days in Ethiopian prison

20 Nov 2009

By Douglas McGill (The McGill Report) — Okwa Omot is sleeping safely in a warm bed at his home in Washington, D.C. this week. That is something of a miracle considering that only a week ago –- and for 107 days ...
A record 670,000 foreign students currently attend schools in the U.S.

20 Nov 2009

WASHINGTON – The publication today of the 2009 Open Doors Report, the leading comprehensive account of international student enrollment throughout American institutions, shows that despite the global economic downturn, record numbers of international students are traveling to the United States to study at institutions of higher education. Equally important, these numbers ...
Ethiopia: A Kangaroo court convicts alleged coup plotters

20 Nov 2009

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — An Ethiopian court on Thursday convicted 26 people who were accused of taking part in an alleged coup plot earlier this year and acquitted five others. Judge Adem Ibrahim said most of the defendants in the case had said they were tortured by police into submitting ...