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Comparing to last quarter and a year ago.
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Ethiopian jazz giant Mulatu Astatke has been honored by the world-renowned Berklee College of Music yesterday. Mulatu, often dubbed as the father of Ethiopian jazz, was presented honorary doctor of music degree from the university's president Roger H. Brown at 2012 commencement. Mulatu told Ethiopica Link over the phone that he was elated to have [...]
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From Live-Aid to a lion economy Three decades ago, the likes of Bob Geldof came to the rescue of millions of famine-stricken Ethiopians. Fast forward to the present, over 700 global mover and shakers of which 500 plus were corporate leaders descended...
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ECX to establish Ethiopian-modeled Nigerian commodity market Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan and Eleni Z. Gabre Madhin (PhD), Chief Executive Officer of the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX), signed a Memorandum of Understanding on how to estab...
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Eritrea Horn of Africa's fastest growing economy in 2012 - IMF The annual publication of the IMF, World Economic Outlook, has forecasted the Eritrea economy to be the fastest growing in the Horn of Africa in 2012, registering a real GDP growth of 7.5...
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Puma Energy eyes Ethiopian market The international petroleum trading company, Puma Energy, has shown an interest in investing in the fuel trading business in Ethiopia. A senior executive of the company this week visited Addis Ababa and met with loca...
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Ethiopia: Marriott, Sunshine ink hotel management dealSource: ReporterMarriott International and Sunshine Construction on Thursday announced a deal that will inject one billion birr into the Ethiopian economy over five years.Under the agreeme...
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This is the website for my holding company, Kagem Tibaijuka & Co. It was finished this week, and I have also been tweeting and posting links on the Twitter & Facebook pages that I set up for the website. Here is a screenshot of what the website looks like:
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Here are random pictures of women that I have taken in different parts of Ethiopia. The portraits reveal the beauty and diversity of the women and their fabulous clothes. The pictures have never been published before and I'm sure you will find them of interest. A traffic policewoman stands in the street of Konso Karat. [...]
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Ha ha ha ha my Afro-Square! I brushed my hair back so it looked like a square. It's like a black totem pole! Don't worry about me, I'm just being silly!
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In my class today, celebrated science journalist Alister Doyle shared an insight that crystalized for me a line of thinking I've been exploring about media attention, celebrity and charity. Doyle shared an idea he's developing with Paul Salopek (and let me just pause and mention how intimidating it is to have characters like Doyle and [...]
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A bitter row has been raging in various parts of the Internet these past few days after Peter Kenworthy wrote suggesting that some prodemocracy activists exaggerated how close Swaziland was to revolution.
Kenworthy was attacked, not so much for his ideas, but because he has an affiliation with the Africa Contact NGO in Denmark.
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Press release by the Ministry of Finance asks for proposals for the 2013 budget. Zambian Economist may coordinate a response over the next three months, if we have sufficient interest from our readers :
COMMENCEMENT OF PREPARATIONS FOR THE 2013 NATIONAL BUDGET, AND THE 2013 TO 2014 MEDIUM TERM EXPENDITURE FRAMEWORK
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Roy Mwaba (ZCTU) recently asked Government to buy quality attire for workers during this year's Labour Day celebrations. Mr Mwaba said it is important for employers to always consider motivating their workers even in a small way by ensuring that they are bought quality attire when they march to commemorate Labour Day :
"We want to appeal to employers, investors, the mines including the government to ensure that they buy quality suits for workers. They must dress them properly. We don't want them to buy the chitenge materials from Kamwala in Lusaka to dress our members. The companies and Government must buy quality suits for workers like the ones ministers wear".
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Since Friday's Special was reserved to Sierra Leone -- and for archival purposes -- here's your Sunday Bonus. First up, above, from the same label that brought us Baloji, Konono N°1 and Staff Benda Billili comes a new recording by Jagwa Music: 'Live in the Streets of Dar' (es Salaam, Tanzania). 'Night in Tunisia', the [...]
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As Congo Siasa readers will know, the new cabinet was officially announced yesterday, comprising 2 deputy prime ministers, 25 ministers and 11 vice-ministers. I have pasted the cabinet below. Here are my first impressions:
Where is the opposition? While Prime Minister Matata had suggested that he was open to including the opposition in his cabinet, and after many diplomats had pushed Kabila to be conciliatory with the opposition, it seems like their entreaties made little difference. Perhaps the president realized that the opposition is relatively weak and divided, so he does not need to reach out to them for the moment. The strange exception seems to be Jean-Paul Nemoyato (now minister of economy), who elected for Gilbert Kiakwama's CDC party, which was in staunch opposition to Kabila.
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The Swaziland National Union of Students has attacked the Swaziland Solidarity Network and its official spokesperson Lucky Lukhele following SSN's handling of criticism about the organisation's exaggerated claims concerning the support it has from Swazis for its call for revolution in the kingdom, ruled by King Mswati III, sub-Saharan Africa's last absolute monarch.
It follows an Internet blogpost by Peter Kenworthy on his stiffkitten site, in which he drew attention to exaggerated claims being made by SSN and some other prodemocracy groups. Kenworthy is also associated with Africa Contact, a Danish-based NGO
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The British media has, in the last few weeks, been working through allegations that the nation's secret services helped Gaddafi's spies track down Libyan dissidents. On 21 April the Mail on Sunday published documents discovered in Libyan archives and detailing the hunt. First, it is alleged that MI5 were involved in the kidnapping of two [...]
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Globetrotter is one of those vaguely defined, international, cosmopolitan culture and fashion magazines. With connections to Chicago, Lagos, and Jakarta, the magazine consists of an eclectic pastiche of commentary on various international trends organized into four sections: Art/Design, Movements, Style, and Music. The publication is the brainchild of Kennedy Ashinze and published through his company, Fuse [...]
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TED presents TED-Ed: TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos.
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