Should EPRDF transform to meet future challenges?
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There is a disconnect when Alamudi declares he will sacrifice himself for EPRDF. That is the sort of silliness you get when you have an organization that is communistic in structure and plays in a democratic space without transforming itself. You get an organization that lets its billionaire supporter(s) to act as cadres instead of them being a show case of a party that can attract every constituency including the rich and powerful.
The zero sum game organizations like EPRP may still dream of wreaking havoc in Ethiopia by piggybacking on the back of another legacy party leader Hailu Shawil but sooner than later the legacy parties will give way to the Belto Megegnet (the let us beat them in their game) parties of tomorrow. Whether the PM leaves after the current term or not he would not have finished his job if he does not see the transformation of his party to match the transformation of the country unfolding!
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The millennium dev't goals: interview with director of the UN
millennium campaign
(May01, 2008 )
(waltainfo.com)
 Federal Paltalk Voice Discussion Room Interview with DR Mulu Ketsela.
Dr Mulu explained the source of the current inflation in Ethiopia and else where and her assessment of the Ethiopian economy and its performance, government economic policies in relation to the current economic strength of the country as well as the role of the World Bank to stabilize current food price hike.
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World Bank Launches New Assistance Strategy for Ethiopia
Ethiopia has entered the early stages of a ‘dual take-off’ in the provision of basic services and in economic growth. Over the past decade, its efforts to improve basic services have shown impressive results. Primary school enrollments have tripled, child mortality has almost been cut in half, and the number of people with access to clean water has more than doubled. Over the last four years, GDP growth has averaged over 11 percent per year. The percentage of Ethiopians living in poverty, cut from 46 percent in 1996 and 44 percent in 2001, to 39 percent in 2006... Amen, yebel!
 Meles Zenawi Knows What Citizens Want
Stranded at the Addis Ababa Airport for the second time in less than five months gave me time to think about Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia.
Having been around Addis City for two nights and driven across on sometimes very rough terrain and seen massive constructions going on, I suddenly realised that no matter how his unflattering human rights records...div>
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One way to end the nonsense argument of virtual demarcation of the Ethiopian and Eritrean border is to null and void the Algiers Agreement. Ethiopia has every right to do so since Eritrea has violated the Algiers agreement many times before and with the forceful eviction of the UN force from the temporary security zone (TSZ) now. The public needs to know what good benefit there is in this agreement to continue upholding it in the face of Eritrea’s violation and the UNSC lack of interest to enforce penalty on Eritrea?
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Zewdnesh Chuko, 48, cast her ballot on Sunday April 13 at the Kebele 17/19 polling station in the Addis Ketema District...but her party of choice UEDF has withdrawn.She did not stay home in despair..you just failed her.
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[Pr. Beyene] ..The people of Addis Abeba took part in these elections for fear that they would not get rations of wheat. Voters’ lists from the
elections have gone to kebelle administration. This is illegal. The number and names [of voters] should be kept a secret.
Q. How can you be so sure? How do you substantiate this claim?
I cannot tell about Addis Abeba. But, the regional experience is like that. They [voters] were told that the sheep and the goats they had been given through safety-net programs would be taken back if they did not register.
Source: Addis
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Air raid kills Somali militants
The leader of the military wing of an Islamist insurgent organisation in Somalia has been killed in an overnight air strike.
Aden Hashi Ayro, al-Shabab's military commander, died when his home in the central town of Dusamareb was bombed....(BBC)
Association for Peace and Fraternity
(Mekele
Tigrai – Ethiopia):- 
Our Zone, the horn of Africa, had been deprived of peace though it is historically prior, for it had been centre of hostility. The main source of this hostility and disorder was the expansion of invaders and wrong policy directions. This situation has left unrelieved impact on the people, mainly in this zone...
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Thinking out loud. What exactly is ENA and Walta's problem not to be dynamic media? Election for ENA is a one day event. For one who visits it Monday they seem to say "The game is over let us get to development". Walta and FANA must have not heard about
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[Alula Nega 05/01/08]
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Interview with H.E. Ato Seyoum Mesfin, FDRE Foreign Minister
Addis Ababa, May 2 (WIC) - The country has reached at a historical moment that proved the significance of the agricultural sector given due attention by the government to the other economic sectors too, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development underlined..
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