Pbs has run yesterday one hour story about Ethiopia's first commodity exchange market(well, actually it was more about the founder than about the market it self- I wish the reporter focused more about the market than about the founder, but a nice story for Pbs to go there and do that). It is very interesting to see the experiment- introducing a Chicago style commodity exchange market to rural Ethiopia. If the theory works, the increase in efficiency of the market should benefit the poor farmers. This should be a good step for Ethiopia in terms of monetizing the huge rural sector ann linking it to the main stream economy.
One also has to notice how the market in Eritrea and Ethiopia are diverting. One facilitates the move towards a modern market based economy and the other closes all the markets and replaces them with an old "Kebele" system....
Here is the Pbs story
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Dehai to Write Petition to Ali Abdu
A group of hard line dehaiers are writing a petition to Ali Abdu to ban hip hop and Amharic music from ERi-TV. Below is part of the petition...(as a mater of fact, I agree with them).
Sorry for bothering you but, I am writing you this e-mail as I am
watching "BET-MTV", I mean Eri-Tv. The Music Video it is shown right now
is so despicable to say the least. Could you please draft a petition
letter to be signed by a concerned citizen and ask Ali Abdu to put his
house in order. I will be the first person to sign it. Self reliance
should not be limited only to infrastructures. Why complain about the
CIA trying to corrupt the minds of the youth while you doing it yourself
on your national TV for free?
The Rise of Neo-Andnet and Neo-Alrabita
These days, reading the Eritrean websites seems like reading the 1940’s Eritrean news papers…even though it has been 70 years now. I thought those periods produce their own momentum and were closed with a dear blood. I thought the 1940’s was history…keman eka Alem Seged wrote a two volume history on those days? isn't that long enough or is history repeating it self? Here is some of the GNAMGNAM…
The Neo-Andnet Group:
This group is led by Professor Tesfazion Medhanie, Professor Tekeste Negash and their student Yosief Gebrihiwot…all Eritreans.
1. Professor Tekeste Negash continues to argue Eritrean nationalism was based on false premise and prescribes Eritrea to go back to her mother Ethiopia(and not to Sudan). Read his article to see his degree of hate. But Caution: he is Historian and he can mislead you with his narration:
2. His student Yosief Gebrihiwet continues his hate of Ghedli and asks “Is it worth the sacrifice we made for our independence?”…actually reading the article by Yosief after reading Tekeste Negash’s article shows you where he is getting the lecture. Without any shame, Yosief argues our founding fathers were wrong to ask for independence of Eritrea and if they have the wisdom and foresight he has, they would have never wanted independence.
3. Professor Tesfazion Medhanie proposes a confederation with Ethiopia.
4. Shaleqa Dawit Weldegerghis, a former governor of Eritrea under the Derge regime, warns his Ethiopian fellow to avoid the mistakes Haileslasie and Derge did…” don’t rush now” and adds “we have to accept Eritrean independence and work together with our Eritrean brothers”…As if we don’t know their strategy of “mekormeyi zrekebes’ mesafihi neysin”
The above are those visible in the neo-Andnet group, but there others too.
The other group on the rise is the Neo-Alrabita. Read Some of the articles here:
1. Uncharted Territory by Ali Salim
2. Hade Hizbi K'ilte Lbi by Ali Salim
3. Shifta Ghebre on the Move Again by Mohammed Ahmed
The Neo-Andnet Group:
This group is led by Professor Tesfazion Medhanie, Professor Tekeste Negash and their student Yosief Gebrihiwot…all Eritreans.
1. Professor Tekeste Negash continues to argue Eritrean nationalism was based on false premise and prescribes Eritrea to go back to her mother Ethiopia(and not to Sudan). Read his article to see his degree of hate. But Caution: he is Historian and he can mislead you with his narration:
2. His student Yosief Gebrihiwet continues his hate of Ghedli and asks “Is it worth the sacrifice we made for our independence?”…actually reading the article by Yosief after reading Tekeste Negash’s article shows you where he is getting the lecture. Without any shame, Yosief argues our founding fathers were wrong to ask for independence of Eritrea and if they have the wisdom and foresight he has, they would have never wanted independence.
3. Professor Tesfazion Medhanie proposes a confederation with Ethiopia.
4. Shaleqa Dawit Weldegerghis, a former governor of Eritrea under the Derge regime, warns his Ethiopian fellow to avoid the mistakes Haileslasie and Derge did…” don’t rush now” and adds “we have to accept Eritrean independence and work together with our Eritrean brothers”…As if we don’t know their strategy of “mekormeyi zrekebes’ mesafihi neysin”
The above are those visible in the neo-Andnet group, but there others too.
The other group on the rise is the Neo-Alrabita. Read Some of the articles here:
1. Uncharted Territory by Ali Salim
2. Hade Hizbi K'ilte Lbi by Ali Salim
3. Shifta Ghebre on the Move Again by Mohammed Ahmed
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