Among the top stories for last week include the release of former Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Tamrat Layne, who was dismissed from the government for corruption in 1996 and convicted by the Ethiopian Supreme Court four years later. He was sentenced to 18 years in prison but state media said he was freed early after showing good behavior. Upon his release, Tamrat Layne, who became protestant Christian, said "I am a man of God, I have no desire to engage in personal or party politics. I would like to preach faith, peace and love."
Here follows Ezega’s most viewed posts in Ethiopian News, Jobs and Real Estate sections for the week ending 12/27/2008.
News:
Ethiopian ex-PM freed from prison
Ethiopian artists in Washington DC honor Teddy Afro
Tamrat Layne Says Enjoys Freedom, Becomes Deeply Religious
World's longest-serving leaders - Top 20
Africa’s Ten Largest Companies for 2008
Prominent Businessmen in Bizarre Spat of Suicide
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Jobs:
Project coordinator – Embassy of the United States
Computer & Network Operator – Ries Engineering Share Company
Social Worker - SOS Children's Village Ethiopia
Database/System Administrator - Bank of Abyssinia
Head Administration and Finance Department - Medco Bio Medical College
For more information, please visit: http://www.ezega.com/Jobs/index.aspx
Real Estate:
Apartment for sale – Addis Ababa, Birr 480,000
Affordable house in CMC – Addis Ababa, Birr 760,000
House for sale – Addis Ababa, Birr 4,200,000
House for sale in Kotebe – Addis Ababa, Birr 900,000
G+1 in CMC – Addis Ababa, Birr 1,400,000
For more information, please visit: http://www.ezega.com/RealEstate/Index.aspx
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Sunday, December 28, 2008
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
World's longest-serving leaders - Top 20
With the passing of President Lansana Conte of Guinea this week (who was #12 of the top 20 longest-serving leaders), we have revised the list to reflect this reality. Also revised is the socio-economic data for each country based on the latest data available from World Economic Forum and CIA World Facts. For more detaled listing of World's longest-serving leaders, click here.
1. Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei, since 1967)
2. President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon, since 1967)
3. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Libya, since 1969)
4. Prime Minister Qaboos bn Said al-Said (Oman, since 1970)
5. Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa (Bahrain, since 1971)
6. President Ali Abdallah Saleh (Yemen, since 1978)
7. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea, since 1979)
8. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola, since 1979)
9. President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (Zimbabwe, since 1980)
10. President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt, since 1981)
11. President Paul Biya (Cameroon, since 1982)
12. Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen (Cambodia, since 1985)
13. President Yoweri Museveni (Uganda, since 1986)
14. King Mswati III (Swaziland, since 1986)
15. President Blaise Compaore (Burkina Faso, since 1987)
16. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia, since 1987)
17. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (Iran, since 1989)
18. President Islom Karimov (Uzbekistan, since 1989)
19. President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (Sudan, since 1989)
20. President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakistan, since 1990)
1. Prime Minister Hassanal Bolkiah (Brunei, since 1967)
2. President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba (Gabon, since 1967)
3. Colonel Muammar Gaddafi (Libya, since 1969)
4. Prime Minister Qaboos bn Said al-Said (Oman, since 1970)
5. Prime Minister Khalifa bin Salman al-Khalifa (Bahrain, since 1971)
6. President Ali Abdallah Saleh (Yemen, since 1978)
7. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo (Equatorial Guinea, since 1979)
8. President Jose Eduardo dos Santos (Angola, since 1979)
9. President Robert Gabriel Mugabe (Zimbabwe, since 1980)
10. President Hosni Mubarak (Egypt, since 1981)
11. President Paul Biya (Cameroon, since 1982)
12. Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen (Cambodia, since 1985)
13. President Yoweri Museveni (Uganda, since 1986)
14. King Mswati III (Swaziland, since 1986)
15. President Blaise Compaore (Burkina Faso, since 1987)
16. President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia, since 1987)
17. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hoseini-Khamenei (Iran, since 1989)
18. President Islom Karimov (Uzbekistan, since 1989)
19. President Omar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir (Sudan, since 1989)
20. President Nursultan Nazarbayev (Kazakistan, since 1990)
Monday, December 1, 2008
Ethiopian star guilty over death
Ethiopian pop star Teddy Afro has been convicted of the manslaughter of a homeless man killed in a hit-and-run incident in Addis Ababa in 2006.
The singer was found guilty of running the man down in his car and driving away without reporting the incident.
Ethiopia's best-known pop star was also convicted of driving without a licence. He faces between five and 15 years in prison when sentenced on Friday.
Afro's music became an anthem for opposition protests in 2005.
Many of his fans believe the charges against him were politically motivated.
But Judge Leul Gebremariam dismissed Afro's defence in a long summing-up, says the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt, who was in the courtroom.
Thumbs-up
There had been some confusion about which night the homeless man had died.
On the first date the singer - real name Tewodros Kassahun - had an alibi: He was out of the country.
On the second possible date, Afro claimed he had been out with friends. But the judge was not convinced and found him guilty on all charges.
As sentence was passed, the singer tried to protest and was hushed by his lawyers.
But as he left court, having regained his composure, Afro gave a thumbs-up sign to supporters and told journalists: "I never killed anyone, I didn't get justice from this court."
Ezega Ethiopian News
The singer was found guilty of running the man down in his car and driving away without reporting the incident.
Ethiopia's best-known pop star was also convicted of driving without a licence. He faces between five and 15 years in prison when sentenced on Friday.
Afro's music became an anthem for opposition protests in 2005.
Many of his fans believe the charges against him were politically motivated.
But Judge Leul Gebremariam dismissed Afro's defence in a long summing-up, says the BBC's Elizabeth Blunt, who was in the courtroom.
Thumbs-up
There had been some confusion about which night the homeless man had died.
On the first date the singer - real name Tewodros Kassahun - had an alibi: He was out of the country.
On the second possible date, Afro claimed he had been out with friends. But the judge was not convinced and found him guilty on all charges.
As sentence was passed, the singer tried to protest and was hushed by his lawyers.
But as he left court, having regained his composure, Afro gave a thumbs-up sign to supporters and told journalists: "I never killed anyone, I didn't get justice from this court."
Ezega Ethiopian News
Friday, November 28, 2008
USAID Jobs in Ethiopia
Here are a couple of new jobs from USAID in Ethiopia:
HEALTH NETWORK PROGRAM ADVISOR
HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICE, USAID/ETHIOPIA
Source: Ezega Jobs
HEALTH NETWORK PROGRAM ADVISOR
HUMAN RESOURCE OFFICE, USAID/ETHIOPIA
Source: Ezega Jobs
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister says ready for talks with Oromo rebels
Source: Ezega NewsNovember 23, 2008 (ADDIS ABEBA) – A mediation team said that the government of Ethiopia has agreed to hold talks with the rebel Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) without any pre-conditions.
The OLF is an organization established in1973 by Oromo nationals to promote self-determination for the majority Oromo people against what they call "Ethiopia’s colonial rule"
In January, a groups of mediators drawn from 3 Oromo-ethnic elders met OLF leaders namely Dawd Ebsa and Temam Yosuf in Amsterdam and signed with the rebel leaders a pact of agreement to come for peace talks under which the rebels agreed to accept Ethiopia’s constitution in principle.
"Ethiopian PM, Meles Zenawi called us and told us in person that his country is ready to hold talks with OLF" Ambassador Birhanu Dinka, one of the elders and also former UN envoy to the great lakes region said.
"Ethiopia agreed to come to negotiating table after the prime minister’s office looked deep into the Amsterdam’s pact of agreement reached between the three of us(elders) and the rebels last January" he added.
After both parties agreed to start talks, the third party has been holding meetings with different influential people abroad and at home.
Recently the elders group has hold two-day discussions with 125 most influential elders drawn from different zones of the Oromiya region under which they urged on the rebel to listen to his people and come to peace talks without any delay.
Ethiopia has long designated the rebel group as a “terrorist” group and holds it responsible for a number of bomb blasts in the capital and in other southern towns.
Another elder Priest Itefa Gobena to his side said that the peace talks will solve long suspicions of authorities over the Oromo for possible links to OLF.
"A number of Oromo-national scholars, investors have been reluctant to return home and serve at home due the fears to what they hear at home” He said adding “The start is a major break through to bring an end to it”.
Recently Ethiopia has arrested a number of Oromo including an opposition leader for an alleged links to OLF “terror ring”.
The elders on a declaration called on both sides to show a genuine commitment to narrow their political difference which put the rebel group into nearly two decades of insurgency.
Ethiopian ship hijacking foiled
Source: Ezega News
Built by Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiani, in Venice, Andinet, one of the nine ships operated by Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) came under attack by the notorious Somali pirates.
Ambachew Abreha, Managing Director of ESL, told Capital that the attack occurred on Monday, November 17, 2008, but the ship managed to safely cruise away from the hijackers.
Andinet has reverted back to its initial point of departure, the Port of Djibouti, after the hijacking attempt. Ambachew said that the attempt was diverted by the ship’s security despite claims by the German navy that stated it rescued Andinet from pirates.
German navy officials said Tuesday its frigate, Karlsruhe, had foiled attacks by heavily armed bandits on two ships. On Monday, Andinet radioed for help, saying it was under attack from two small motorboats in the Gulf of Aden. The Karlsruhe, which was 20km away, dispatched a Sea Lynx helicopter and the two motorboats “left at high speed,” a navy statement said.
The managing director on his part said the German navy was near the incident but has not intercepted the hijackers, adding that it is confidential how the ship managed to foil the attack. Earlier in the week, the Saudi supertanker, Sirius Star, carrying 100 million dollars worth of oil, was hijacked and anchored off a notorious Somali pirate port. The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25, 19 from The Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi, and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil, was seized on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
The Sirius Star, the size of three football pitches and three times the weight of a US aircraft carrier, is the largest ship ever seized by pirates and the hijacking was the farthest out to sea that Somali bandits have struck. Four ships from Britain, Greece, Italy and Turkey form a NATO patrol in the waters, with two protecting United Nations (UN) food aid convoys to the strife-torn Horn of Africa country. NATO’s operation ends in mid-December when a bigger European Union (EU) mission is set to take over but NATO is considering “complementary” action to the EU mission.
The International Maritime Bureau has reported that 90 vessels have been attacked since January. Of those, 38 were hijacked while pirates still hold 16 vessels with more than 250 crew as hostages.
Ethiopian Shipping Lines SC was founded in 1964 and started operation in 1966 with three newly built ships with a capital of 50,000 birr subsequently raised to 3,750,000 birr.
Built by Fincantieri-Cantieri Navali Italiani, in Venice, Andinet, one of the nine ships operated by Ethiopian Shipping Lines (ESL) came under attack by the notorious Somali pirates.
Ambachew Abreha, Managing Director of ESL, told Capital that the attack occurred on Monday, November 17, 2008, but the ship managed to safely cruise away from the hijackers.
Andinet has reverted back to its initial point of departure, the Port of Djibouti, after the hijacking attempt. Ambachew said that the attempt was diverted by the ship’s security despite claims by the German navy that stated it rescued Andinet from pirates.
German navy officials said Tuesday its frigate, Karlsruhe, had foiled attacks by heavily armed bandits on two ships. On Monday, Andinet radioed for help, saying it was under attack from two small motorboats in the Gulf of Aden. The Karlsruhe, which was 20km away, dispatched a Sea Lynx helicopter and the two motorboats “left at high speed,” a navy statement said.
The managing director on his part said the German navy was near the incident but has not intercepted the hijackers, adding that it is confidential how the ship managed to foil the attack. Earlier in the week, the Saudi supertanker, Sirius Star, carrying 100 million dollars worth of oil, was hijacked and anchored off a notorious Somali pirate port. The biggest act of piracy yet by the marauding Somali bandits has stunned the international community.
The super-tanker with its crew of 25, 19 from The Philippines, two from Britain, two from Poland, one Croatian and one Saudi, and loaded to capacity with two million barrels of oil, was seized on Saturday, November 15, 2008.
The Sirius Star, the size of three football pitches and three times the weight of a US aircraft carrier, is the largest ship ever seized by pirates and the hijacking was the farthest out to sea that Somali bandits have struck. Four ships from Britain, Greece, Italy and Turkey form a NATO patrol in the waters, with two protecting United Nations (UN) food aid convoys to the strife-torn Horn of Africa country. NATO’s operation ends in mid-December when a bigger European Union (EU) mission is set to take over but NATO is considering “complementary” action to the EU mission.
The International Maritime Bureau has reported that 90 vessels have been attacked since January. Of those, 38 were hijacked while pirates still hold 16 vessels with more than 250 crew as hostages.
Ethiopian Shipping Lines SC was founded in 1964 and started operation in 1966 with three newly built ships with a capital of 50,000 birr subsequently raised to 3,750,000 birr.
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