ጅብ ከሄደ ውሻ ጮኽ! WHAT? Ethiopia arrive in Brazil for two week tour

ይህ ዜና ተረት ይመስላል። የ አለም ዋንጫ ባለቀ በወሩ ዋሊያዎች ብራዚል ደረሱ። ለምን እንደሆን ዋናውን ዘገባ አንቡት
by Collins Okinyo 08 August 2014, 00:28
Ethiopia's Walia Ibex arrived safely in Brazil for a two week preparation tour ahead of the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers where they are grouped with Malawi, Mali and Algeria.
The East Africans will play five friendly matches with local sides that include AC Anapolina Club Do Remo at the Arena Baenao Gama, Brasiliense at the Boca do Jacare stadium and the last friendly will be against Itubiara at the 30,000 seater JK stadium.
While in Brazil, the national team will stay at Hotel San Peter and will be training at one of the training centers that was used by the Brazilian national team during the World Cup.
Coach Mariano Barreto, his assistant Daniel Tsehai, team doctor Dr. Terefe Tafa, Physio Behailu Abera have landed in Brazil.
Jemal Tassew, Sesay Bancha, Ephrem Ashamo, Mesud Mohammed, Shemeles Tegegn, Andaregachew Yelake, Thok James, Abebaw Butako, Behanu Bogale, Mintesinot Adane, Akilu Ayanaw and Dawa Hottesa are some of the players already in Brazil.
Players leaving Addis Ababa on Saturday for Brazil include Minyahile Teshome, Asrat Megersa, Salahdin Bergecho, Shemelis Bekele, Fikru Teffera, Natnael Zelleke, Fitsum Gebremariam, Behailu Assefa, Adane Girma, Gathoch Panom, Fasil Tekalegne, assistant coach Haileselaise Georgis goal keeping coach and Yosef Tesfaye who is the team leader.
Teixeira who has 15 years’ experience working in football also helped organise last week's Ethiopia Walia Ibex International friendly that they lost 1-0 to Angola away in Luanda. He has also organized more than 250 football events around the world the last one of which involved taking Italian Seria A team Hellas Verona to make a stage in Brazil.
"It has taken a lot of effort to organise the friendlies for Ethiopia in conjunction with the federation. I have catered for all the expenses while the federation will only pay for the tickets to and from Addis Ababa. I am trying to help Ethiopia under their new coach Mariano Barreto to meet their objective of once again qualifying for the 2015 Afcon in Morocco."

US To Commit $800m To Ethiopia’s Economic Development

VENTURES AFRICA – The United States is committing $800 million to assist Ethiopia with issues of economic development, education, capacity building, health, among others.
Secretary John Kerry made this known on Tuesday when he met Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn before their meeting in Washington DC.
“Our relationship is strong and productive, and we’re very, very grateful for their leadership most of all at a difficult time in some difficult places,” said Kerry, who noted that Ethiopia has been at the forefront of helping to move the peace process in Sudan and South Sudan.
Desalegn also said Ethiopia was working assiduously to pacify the region, which, according to him is the “basis for all the engagements and economic development that take place.”
He noted that the East African country is seizing the opportunity presented by the US-Africa Summit and business forum to speak to investors as it seeks to attract investments into Ethiopia.
The country is also working very hard to fight terrorism and extremism, Desalegn says.
Ehthiopia’s economy has experienced strong growth over the past decade, averaging 10.9 percent per year in 2003/04 – 2012/13 more than double the regional average of about 5 percent, according to the World Bank.

The country is expected to continue its economic growth as it attracts investments from the US as it has from emerging markets, notably China, Turkey and India.
“However, in order to convert these interests into actual investments, Ethiopia must be more competitive by considerably reducing logistics cost and time,” noted Guang Zhe Chen, World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia in a recent World Bank Group report.

እራሱ በራሱ ፎቶ ያነሳው ዝንጀሮ ጉዳይ የይገባኛል ጥያቄ ውዝግብ አስነሳ

የዚህ ፎቶ ግራፍ ባለቤት ማን ነው?
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2የካሜራው ባለቤት
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።  የቦ ዶት ካም የቦ የጉዞ ወኪል

This photo was taken with the camera of nature photographer David Slater, and in any other situation, we’d have to pay serious money for the use of it. However, we’re using it for free — that’s right, we are paying no dollars for it — because that monkey stole Slater’s camera and took his own photo, therefore holding the copyright and releasing the photo into the public domain. Slater, however, doesn’t see it that way, and recently filed a suit against Wikipedia for freely distributing the monkey selfie.

Wikipedia’s Creative Commons contains thousands of free images, and in the past three years since the monkey selfie was published, its editors have kept uploading the macque’s photo under the argument that the monkey is the original copyright holder “because it was the one that pressed the shutter button,” The Telegraph reports. And unless the monkey suddenly becomes litigious, the image will remain in the public domain. (Most countries would agree with this interpretation, with many outright stating that photos must be created by humans in order to receive copyright protection.)

However, Slater’s spending nearly £10,000 on a lawsuit against Wikipedia, arguing that the viral nature of the photo caused him to lose a lot of money in royalties, and we mean a lot:

“That trip cost me about £2,000 for that monkey shot. Not to mention the £5,000 of equipment I carried, the insurance, the computer stuff I used to process the images. Photography is an expensive profession that’s being encroached upon. They’re taking our livelihoods away,” he said.
“For every 100000 images I take, one makes money that keeps me going. And that was one of those images. It was like a year of work, really.”

When asked for comment, the black crested macque hurled its feces into the air.

UPDATE — 9:02 p.m. ET: We received an email from the Wikimedia foundation clarifying who, exactly, holds the copyright for the selfie:
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A photographer left his camera unattended in a national park in North Sulawesi, Indonesia. A female crested black macaque monkey got ahold of the camera and took a series of pictures, including some self-portraits. The pictures were featured in an online newspaper article and eventually posted to Commons. We received a takedown request from the photographer, claiming that he owned the copyright to the photographs. We didn’t agree, so we denied the request.

Why we didn’t agree:

We don’t agree that the photographer in question has copyright over the images. That doesn’t mean the monkey owns the copyright: it just means that the human who owns the camera doesn’t.

For example, under US copyright law, copyright claims cannot vest in to non-human authors (that is, non-human authors can’t own copyrights) — and the monkey was the photographer. To claim copyright, the photographer would have had to make substantial contributions to the final image, and even then, they’d only have copyright for those alterations, not the underlying image

Ethiopia Establishes Anti-Ebola Committee

The Public Health Institute has announced that Ethiopia has set up a National Committee to put in place a plan to prevent and contain any possible outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus, which is currently spreading in West Africa.

A spokesperson for the Institute, Abel Yeshaneh, said the National Committee would draw up guidelines to prevent and contain Ebola and these guidelines would be made official shortly. According to information from the Institute, the Committee members will be from the Ministry of Health, Ethiopian Airlines and other stake holders.

Ethiopian Airlines, which operates an extensive flight network connecting West African countries to other parts of the world, has already announced it has put in place "precautions in connection with the outbreak of the disease in some parts of West Africa."

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Seychelles and Ethiopia plan to increase cooperation in trade, tourism and regional security -

(Seychelles News Agency) - Seychelles’ President James Michel and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn have endorsed the creation of a joint commission between their two countries following talks which centred on the possibility of strengthening cooperation in various fields between the two African nations.

In a press statement issued yesterday evening, state House said trade, tourism and regional security were amongst issues discussed by Michel and Desalegn, who met in the margins of the US-Africa Summit, in Washington.

According to the statement, Michel noted that Seychelles and Ethiopia enjoyed excellent relations adding that they would work towards developing collaboration at different levels.

"I believe that the time has come for us to strengthen our relations both bilaterally and at the level of the African Union. There is so much we can do together," said Michel.


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Seychelles and Ethiopia plan to increase cooperation in trade, tourism and regional security

The Seychelles and Ethiopian delegations at the meeting in Washington in the margins of the US-Africa summit (Mervyn Marie, Seychelles News Agency)


(Seychelles News Agency) - Seychelles’ President James Michel and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn have endorsed the creation of a joint commission between their two countries following talks which centred on the possibility of strengthening cooperation in various fields between the two African nations.

In a press statement issued yesterday evening, state House said trade, tourism and regional security were amongst issues discussed by Michel and Desalegn, who met in the margins of the US-Africa Summit, in Washington.

According to the statement, Michel noted that Seychelles and Ethiopia enjoyed excellent relations adding that they would work towards developing collaboration at different levels.

"I believe that the time has come for us to strengthen our relations both bilaterally and at the level of the African Union. There is so much we can do together," said Michel.

The Seychelles delegation at the meeting headed by President James Michel also comprised of the Seychelles Foreign Minister Jean-Paul Adam, the Seychelles Ambassador to the US, Marie-Louise Potter and the Secretary General of the Office of the President, Lise Bastienne. (Mervyn Marie, Seychelles News Agency) Photo License: CC-BY

The Seychellois head of state also highlighted the return of Ethiopian Airlines to Seychelles soon, which he said would help boost economic cooperation namely trade and tourism between the two African nations.

News of Ethiopian Airlines’ plans to resume flights to Seychelles surfaced mid-March this year not long after its last flight to the Indian Ocean archipelago.

The Ethiopian carrier had been operating three weekly flights to the island nation since the first quarter of 2012 before it stopped on March 01, 2014.

Ethiopian Airlines is now expected to resume direct flights between Addis Ababa and Seychelles as of October 01, 2014.

With fish being one of the main pillars of the Seychelles economy, the possibility of the island nation exporting fish to Ethiopia and working on capacity building in the fisheries sector was also discussed.

"Seychelles' fisheries products can be exported to Ethiopia and at the same time Seychelles can import vegetables and other products from Ethiopia. This would be a win-win situation....,” said Michel.

For his part, the Ethiopian Prime Minister said that that his country would welcome investors from Seychelles for mutual benefit.
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Tiborn Nagy, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, "Ethiopia's improvement should allay its critics"

አምባሳደረ ቲቦን ናጊ  የቀድሞው  የአሜሬካ አምባሳደር በኢትዮጵያ
Regarding the Houston Chronicle editorial about Ethiopia, "Do Better" (Page B7, July 29), while one can take a snapshot of Ethiopia's current political, economic and social circumstances and find areas for serious criticism, it would be much fairer to view where Ethiopia is today in relation to where it has come from, and especially to where it is headed.
I served as a U.S. diplomat twice in Ethiopia, as a member of the U.S. embassy staff in the mid-1980s during the awful days of the Marxist dictatorship at the height of the "Great Famine," and again as ambassador from 1999-2002.
I have also returned to the country a number of times since then to help facilitate educational exchanges between U.S. and Ethiopian universities. In my experience, for most Americans, "Ethiopia" still conjures up images more reminiscent of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse than today's reality.



Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Africa, made up of mostly dynamic young people experiencing unparalleled economic growth and incredible infrastructure development, with a realistic shot of becoming a middle-income country by 2025.
Along with economic development has come significant and rapid social progress in longevity, women's education and HIV/AIDS reduction - and incredible growth in university education, with Ethiopia going from three to 38 national universities in just over a decade.
Historically, Ethiopia is an ancient nation - and the only sub-Saharan one to have developed through history and geography rather than by having colonizers drawing lines on a map that, in most cases, made little sense.
Its current political system dates to just 1991, when rebel groups forcibly overthrew the Marxist dictatorship and installed a hybrid political system, which is still evolving. Considering the immense existential threats the regime faced upon taking power, it is understandable that it didn't immediately transform from the barbarous regime it displaced to an ideal Scandinavian democracy.
However, it has evolved and continues to do so, with each succeeding iteration more politically progressive (and I don't mean this in U.S. political terms) than the last.
Has Ethiopia arrived at a point where the government in place is willing to have itself voted out of office? That is a question that only the government can answer. But subsequent elections will show whether the government will promote an environment that enables a serious opposition to exist, while the opposition will also have to be serious, instead of fractious, petty, selfish and generally irrelevant.
As the Chronicle editorial pointed out, Ethiopia has serious human rights problems.
As a historical comparison - this is not in any way justification - young nations often do. The U.S. won its independence from Britain in 1783, and in 1798 President John Adams signed into law the odious "Alien and Sedition Acts," which any "civilized" nation would loudly criticize today.
Luckily, the U.S. tendency since then has been toward democratic liberalization.
An important point: So is Ethiopia's. Unlike much of the rest of Africa (not to mention the Middle East), where the trend is stagnant or in reverse, Ethiopia's environment keeps getting better.
I can state from my experience in dealing with Ethiopia: Outsiders who want to influence that evolution positively need to do so discreetly. There are some countries where public criticism works well; there are a few where it is counterproductive. And Ethiopia is definitely in the second category.
The international community needs to decide whether it wants to publicly flog Ethiopia or to effect positive political change. Pursuing the former will only cause Ethiopia to dig in its heels, empower those within the regime who resist change and likely result in stiffer sentences for the incarcertated journalists who plight was the supject of the editorial. If the goal is encouraging liberalization, then discussion out of the limelight will be much more produtive.
U.S. politicians are accountable to their constitutents - and the Ethiopian diaspora is a vocal and well-organized constituency. Having been a member of the Hungarian exile community, this is something I have personal experience with. Those of us who escaped the blood Soviet suppression of the 1956 uprising were vociferously anti-Communist and politically active agains the Hungarian regime until the crumbling of the Soviet Union.
incar In addition to having incredible energy, exile communities also tend to be highly emotional and can idealize the system that existed before the event that caused their exile. I know realize that we Hungarians dis this and failed to acknowledge any progress the post-1956 regime made with "Goulash Communism."
I would simply urge the Ethiopian community to carefull evaluate events in Ethiopia - the positive as well as the negative - and work toward effecting progress on all fronts. Political and economic liberalization should happen together.

Tiborn Nagy, a former U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, lives in Lubbock.
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