Vol. XIX, No. 20................... ESTABLISHED  1993................... May 17, 2012
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20 May 2012 
In this Issue

* Focus of the Week

* Editorial Roundup

* News

* Business & Investment

* Politics with humor

* Hornnews

* Commentary


The Week's Focus

Forum stresses need for prioritizing economic transformation :

The 22nd World Economic Forum on Africa which was opened yesterday with the theme: ‘Shaping African Transformation’ stressed the need for prioritizing the continent’s economic transformation to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth...

Private sector leaders, where are they? :

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi declared last week that “without the private sector, there is no development.”...

Religious leaders discuss anti-extremism :

In three zones of the Oromia Regional state, Islamic religious leaders have gathered the followers to dwell on the current signs of religious extremism popping up in different places in the region...

Editorial Government

Editorial

More efforts to stamp out corruption... Corruption is now recognized to be one of the world’s greatest challenges...

Food crops market, it won’t get better... The Ethiopian traditional marketplace exchange system has been for long haunted by lack of information and trust among both buyers and sellers...

Getting bigger and wider by the day!... Unemployment has become a major challenge across the world. It has particularly become more serious in the developed countries following the economic crisis...

Editorial Private

A country where the state is the only development agent... In this country, the state has literally become the sole development agent...


News


Horn News & Views

Eritrea

  • Eritrea forecast to be the fastest growing economy in Horn...

Kenya

  • Kenya trial: Briton Jermaine Grant 'linked to 7/7 bomber'...

  • Traffic jams cost Nairobi Sh50 million a day...

  • Police launch Manhunt for German terror suspect...

  • Kibaki appoints anti-graft czars...

  • Journalist in Western Region faces death threats...

Somalia

  • Ethiopia's damage limitation policy for country...

  • Govt, Al Shabab claim victory over Bay, Bakol fighting...

  • Pirates 'hijack' oil tanker Smyrni near Oman...

  • Puntland Gov't says Draft Constitution 'Unrealistic and Unsuitable'...

Sudan

  • South Sudan accuses Khartoum of bombing its territory...

  • Sudan, South Sudan to resume negotiations on May 17: report...

  • Sudan says withdrawal from Abyei Conditional to Joint Committee Formation...

  • South Sudan: Govt says 'Bye Bye' to Arabic...

  • UN chief tells Sudan to pull troops from Abyei..

  • South Sudanese refugees flown home from Khartoum..