San Diego, CA. 50 best Ethiopian websites of the year 2007 is released

Dec 25, 2007.
San Diego, CA. 50 best Ethiopian websites of the year 2007 is released. Yebbo Communication Network and SEWD (Society of Ethiopian Web developers) has conducted a research to find out where the Ethiopian web sites are ranking by the number of traffics they have based on Alexa.com web site traffic tools and other feedbacks from visitors around the world and here are the top 50 Ethiopian websites of 2007. The ranking is based on number of traffics only.
Ethiopian Rank
World Rank
Website
1
78416
Ethiopian Review
2
113947
Nazret.com
3
129884
Ethiomedia.com
4
158161
abugidainfo.com
5
200266
cyberethiopia.com
6
221441
Addis Live
7
222554
ETHIOFORUM.ORG
8
224291
Ethiopian Reporter
9
227172
Ethioforum.org
10
246599
Walta Info
11
270568
Ethiopian Airlines
12
307841
Aiga forum
13
322363
Addisvoice.com
14
349830
Ottawa.on.ca - Ethiopia
15
451684
Abesha.com
16
464344
Ethio Index
17
476727
ENA
18
505395
OURETN.COM
19
506338
WWW.ETHIOPIAFIRT.COM
20
683115
Ethioview.com
21
738554
Abbaymedia.com
22
748872
ADDISFORTUNE.COM
23
991852
Tigrai.org
24
1015245
Kinijit.org
25
1064783
Addistribune.com
26
1077983
KINIJITETHIOPIA.ORG
27
1081580
Addis Ababa University
28
1085188
Addis Dimts
29
1104431
Oromo Index
30
1263134
CAPITAL ETHIOPIA News Paper
31
1275087
Dekialula.com
32
1319002
Tensae.net
33
1355198
ETHIOPIAN EMBASSY USA DC
34
1500129
Gadaa.com
35
1538129
ETHIOPIANS.COM
36
1624388
Ethio Net Works
37
1737280
Mfa.gov.et
38
1863277
Ethio Embassy UK
39
1977885
ESAI
40
2013630
Assimba.org
41
2333734
YEBBO.COM
42
3072853
Ethiopian Millennium 2000
43
3120481
Ethiopiancenter.com
44
3202234
Addis Ababa Chamber
45
3851694
Esfna.net
46
3911783
ETHIOTRANS.COM
47
4100472
Ethiopian Germany
48
4119533
Ethio Consulate Los Angeles
49
4666993
Ethiopian Gasha
50
5606935
Ethiopia on Line

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Ethiopia wins trademark rights for coffee brands

Ethiopia wins trademark rights for coffee brands

ADDIS ABABA, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Ethiopia has successfully won trademark rights for its specialty Harar and Sidamo coffee names, it said in a statement on Thursday.

Earlier this year, the African producer had a protracted tussle with Starbucks Corp (SBUX.O: Quote, Profile, Research) over the use of the two names in the United States. More

Palm tree saves hundreds of lives at Egyptian airport

The FINANCIAL -- According to RIA Novosti, a palm tree at Egypt's Cairo international airport has saved hundreds of passengers on board an Ethiopian Airlines' flight from certain death, the Al-Ahram weekly paper said on December 17.
The Boeing 747 had just landed when the plane's brake system failed, and the jet sped on, heading directly for oil tankers at a nearby refueling aerodrome. However, doom was averted by a huge palm tree which halted the plane's progress some 30 meters (98 feet) from the tankers. Firefighters and ambulances hurried to the airport, but no injuries were reported.

Youtube Video of the year 2007

Video Youtube video of the year 2007
We are not sure what you call them but we call them "YOUTUBE’S MILLION VIEWERS CLUB” That means more than a million people watched or clicked them. So who they are. Well these are the top 10th.
The #1 video of the year scored more than 68 Million victors followed by 64 million and 43Million visitors for #2 and #3 videos.
Title
Hits
Posted by
1. Evolution of Dance
68,428,977
judsonlaipply
2. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
64,821,936
RCARecords
3. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
43,926,460
mYcheMicALroMaNcE
4. Lo que tú Quieras Oír
43,646,490
kaejane
5. My Chemical Romance – Famous Last Words
41,071,614
mYcheMicALroMaNcE
6. IMVU – www.IMVU.com
35,573,025
IMVUinc
7. Akon – "Don’t Matter"
34,433,574
srcrecords
8. Timbaland – The Way I Are OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
34,207,314
TimbalandMusic
9. guitar
33,920,639
guitar90
10. Hahaha
30,894,037
BlackOleg
We are not sure what you call them but we call them "YOUTUBE’S MILLION VIEWERS CLUB” That means more than a million people watched or clicked them. So who they are. Well these are the top 10th.
The #1 video of the year scored more than 68 Million victors followed by 64 million and 43Million visitors for #2 and #3 videos.
Title
Hits
Posted by
1. Evolution of Dance
68,428,977
judsonlaipply
2. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
64,821,936
RCARecords
3. My Chemical Romance – Teenagers
43,926,460
mYcheMicALroMaNcE
4. Lo que tú Quieras Oír
43,646,490
kaejane
5. My Chemical Romance – Famous Last Words
41,071,614
mYcheMicALroMaNcE
6. IMVU – www.IMVU.com
35,573,025
IMVUinc
7. Akon – "Don’t Matter"
34,433,574
srcrecords
8. Timbaland – The Way I Are OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
34,207,314
TimbalandMusic
9. guitar
33,920,639
guitar90
10. Hahaha
30,894,037
BlackOleg

The University of Alabama law school chosen to help create graduate law programs in Ethiopia

UA law school chosen to help create graduate law programs in Ethiopia
The University of Alabama School of Law was recently chosen by the Ethiopian government to help that country build its graduate law programs.

The project, funded by a $2.4 million loan allocated by the World Bank, is a five-year program called “Graduate Programs in Law for Teaching and Research Capacity Building.” UA Law faculty will offer strategies to assist public universities in Ethiopia in developing their masters and doctoral legal programs. Currently, Ethiopian schools offer only undergraduate law degrees, and students seeking a masters or doctoral degree in law must study abroad. The new program will support 40 masters and 18 doctoral students. Ethiopia, a nation of approximately 75 million people, had only one law school between1963 and 1994. Today, there are eight law schools in Ethiopia. Earlier this year, the Ethiopian government issued a request for proposals to five universities: the University of Alabama School of Law; Warwick University Law School in Great Britain; Åbo Akademi University’s Department of Law in Finland; University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Law in the Netherlands; and University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Law in South Africa. The University of Alabama School of Law and Warwick University Law School were chosen, and will coordinate their efforts with two Ethiopian public universities. Final negotiations between the University of Alabama School of Law, Warwick University Law School, and the Ethiopian government will take place before the new year.
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Ethiopian Airlines targets Western and Southern African markets

ለመጀመሪያ ጊዜ በኢትዮጵያ የጉዞ ወኪሎች ታሪክ በቀን 24 በሳምነት 7 ቀን ክፍት የሆነ የጉዞ ወኪል፡፡
Ethiopian Airlines targets Western and Southern African markets
Ethiopian Airlines targets Western and Southern African markets

By Kirubel Tadesse

Capital

Ethiopian Airlines targets to increase its profile in the African market by expanding western and southern routes in the coming three years. Planning to increase its fifty routes to sixty, the airline says its main area of concern will be African countries, since the competition is getting stronger, with two American airlines having entered and others showing interest in the African markets.


Ethiopian says it plans to maintain flights to the USA and Europe with a few expansion plans to one or two states in the USA and in Canada. An auditing and inspection team from Canada is expected in one month’s time to allow Ethiopian to fly to Canada.

Ethiopian also plans to acquire two MD-11 aircraft by 2008 and 2009 and expects to receive 10 Boeing 787s, of which eight are expected in 2010 and the remaining by 2011.

There are further plans to increase the fleet from 21 to 30 jet aircraft.

In a half day press conference Junedi Saddo, Transport and Communication Minister, gave on Wednesday December 5, 2007 at the Sheraton Addis, he explained his sector’s five year strategic plan and the last two years’ performance. Junedi was accompanied by CEOs of communication and transport service provider institutions.
Junedi explained that as per the Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) study results, changes have been made in the five main and seven support services of the Transport and Communication Ministry. Juneydi stated that in order to satisfy Addis Ababa’s public transport needs with comfortable, efficient and affordable services, the Ministry has signed an agreement to buy one thousand minibuses of which half are expected to arrive in the next quarter budget year.

Replying to questions related to the importation of electric buses by a certain company recently, Junedi stated that the company engaged in the investment imported the buses. He explained that such operation of mass public transportation services could only be run under public investment but that the Ministry gave routes to the investor to complete all necessary tests with the two buses, only in order to encourage future private investment.

“With regard to the telecommunications sector,” Juneydi said, “landline telephone network has registered 14% growth annually with the number of customers going up 21% in the last five years.” Juneydi also said that the mobile network capacity and the number of registered customers have showed an annual growth rate of 123% and 120% respectively. Amare Amesalu, CEO of Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation, on the occasion explained that ETC will work on upgrading its mobile network to 3G level. Amare also stated that in the next three years, ETC mobile service will reach 10 million subscribers and land lines to four million.

Amare used the occasion to announce that a significant amount of the 14 million birr loss ETC incurred due to lack of reporting roaming services in thirty hours period to partners as per the contract, is to be recovered after negotiations with the companies.

Girma Wake, CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, and Kasahun Hailemariam, Director General of Transport Authority and others were among the officials in attendance at the press conference chaired by Minister Juneydi.

Juneydi made no attempt to cover up wrongdoings and alleged press unavailability by CEOs and advised them to be more open to the media. Juneydi also warned that if not rescued, the Ethiopian Postal Service will end up in the same state as the Ethio-Djibouti Railway, which is soon to be dissolved and replaced by another corporation
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The Lost Boys and his mom story

His name is Simon, 20 years ago when he was about 8 years old a civil war in Sudan irrupted , Simon did not have any choice expect run for his life from his childhood village to Gambela, a small border town to Ethiopia. He was separated from his parents and siblings. He found a refuge shelter in Ethiopian a region called “Gambela”. The only close relative he had at the refugee camp was his uncle, as a lost boy he grew up without a parent and when the Ethiopian government was thrown out by the current government the camp was attacked and they forced to fled to Kenya. While Simon was in Kenya refugee camp one guy told him Simon mom was died. That was another personal loss and devastation for the young Simon, he was crashed, he was depressed and felt lonely more than for ever. His hope to meet his mom was vanished to the air. After several agony years finally he got a chance to immigrate to US and settled in San Diego. SD was his home after Kenya refuge camp.
Because of attractive wages Simon decided to work in Alaska for the fishing company. He said it is a good payment. People can make a year wage in three to four months. Now lonely Simon does not have any one except himself and God. While he was working in the ship one night Simon was sleeping. In the middle of the night a human figure appeared in font of him. It was kind of ghost. It was like the ghost of his mother. Simon was frightened and screamed loud and went crazy. The whole ship crew heard his scream and wake up and rushed to his room. They asked him what happened and told them about his dream. Every one thought this is “ Just a Nightmare” .
But for Simon it was not just a nightmare, but it was real. He could not get rid of it from his mind. Then he decided to call back to Sudan. There was one of his friend in Sudan and he called him and told him to search for his mom. His friend told him he will do what ever he can.
Guess what? His friend told him one of the unbelievable story for Simon. His mom is “ALIVE”
Simon could not waste any time and called to his mom. After 20 years he was able to talk to his mom. Yesterday he came to Yebbo Travel and book his flight to Nairobi and will fly to his village to meet his mom. Unfortunately he found out that his father was alive but died in 2005.
For us the story is priceless. we hope you like the story and make you happy for the day
ስሙ ሳይመን ይባላል፡፡ አሁን ያለው ዜግነት አሜሪካዊ ቢሆንም ትውልዱ ሱዳን ነው፡፡ ሳይምን በአሁኑ ወቅት የጠፉ ልጆች ወይም ሎስት ቦይስ (lost boys) ከሚባሉት በስደት ለብዙ ዘመናት በስደት ላይ ከሚገኙት የደቡብ ሱዳን ዜጎች ውስጥ አንዱ ነው፡፡ ሳይመን ለስደት የበቃው የዛሬ 20 አመት የ 8 ልጅ እያለ ነው፡፡ ያኔ በሱዳን በነበረው ጭፍጨፋ ሳይመን ከወላጆቹ እና ከወንድሞቹ ተለይቶ ወደ ጋናቤላ አጎቱን ተከትሎ ይሄዳል፡፡ ጋንቤላ ለብዙ ጊዜ ከተቀመጡ በኋላ ኢትዩጵያ ውስጥ መንግስቱ ለቆ ሲሄድ ወደ ኬንያ ይሰደዳሉ፡፡ አንድ ቀን ከኩኩማ የስደተኞች መንደር እያለ አንዱ ጓደኛው ይመጣና ሳይመንን እናትህ ሞተች ይለዋል፡፡ ሳይመንም እዚያው ድርቅ ብሎ ውሃ ሆኖ ይቀራል፡፡ ከዚያ ነበር ሳይመን ሂዎቱ ዳግም ብቸኛ ባዶ የሆነበት፡፡ ያ ቀን የሳይመን ክፉ ቀን እንደሆነ እስከ አሁን እይኑ እንባ እየቋጠረ ያወራል ከብዙ አመታት የስደት ቆይታ በኃላ ሳይመን ከሌሎች የሱዳን ስደተኞች ጋር ሆኖ ወደ አሜሪካ የመምጣት እድል ያገኛል፡፡ አሜሪካ ሳንድያጎም እንደመጣ የተለያዩ ስራዎችን ሲሰራ ከቆዬ በኋላ በአጋጣሚ ጥሩ ስራ ይገኛበታል ከሚባለው አላስካ (Alaska) ከሚሉት ግዛት በመርከብ ላይ ሆኖ አሳ የማጥመድ ስራ አግኝቶ ይሔዳል፡፡ አላስካ ማለት በረዶ ቤት ማለት ነው፡፡ አንድ ሰው መርከብ ላይ ስራ ከጀመረ መርከቡ ለብዙ ወራት ወደ የብስ ሳይመለስ ራሽያ ለመድረስ ትንሽ ሲቀረው ነው የሚመለሰው፡፡ ብዙ ኢታዮጳያዊያን የስራውን ሁኔታ ሲገልጹ ልብ ወለድ የሚያወሩ ነው የሚመስለው፡፡ መርከቡ 24 ሰዓት ነው የሚሳራው፡፡ ሰራ ካለ መተኛት የለም፣ ሰራ ከሌለ ደግሞ ከዚያው ከመርከቡ ላይ በርን ዘግቶ መተኛት ነው፡፡ ይታያችሁ ቀዝቃዛ፣ ባዶ፣ ጨለማ፣ ከውቅኖስ መሃል፡፡ ከግራ ውሃ፣ ከቀኛ ውሃ፣ ከላይ ውሃ፣ ከታች ውሃ፣ ብርድ አጥንት ቆርጥሞ የሚገባ ብርድ፡፡ ሳይመንም በዚህ የመሬት ፂዎል በሆነ ወና መርከብ ላይ ደክሞት እንደተኛ በጨለማው አናቱ ብቅ ትልበታለች፡፡ ፈረንጆች ጎስት (Ghost) ወይም ዱካክ እንደሚሉት ማለት ነው፡፡ ሳይመንም በድንጋጤ መርከቡን በጩኸት ያደባልቀዋል፡፡ በመርከቡ ያለው ሰራተኛ ሁሉ ከእንቅልፉ ይባንንና ምነው ሲሉት “እናቴን አየኋት” ይላል ታሪኩን ሲነግራቸው ትንሽ ነካ ያደርገዋል ብለው ትተውት ይሄዳሉ፡፡ ሳይመን ግን ያዬው ነገር ከቅዠት የላቀ በመሆኑ ወዲያው ስልክ ሱዳን በቅርቡ ለሄደ ጓደኛው ይደውላል፡፡ ደውሎም እናቱን እንዲፈልግ ይነግረዋል፡፡ ጓደኛም በአጋጣሚ ሱዳን ስለነበር ትንሽ ቆይቶ መልሶ እንዲዳል ለሳይመን ይነግረዋል፡፡ ሳይመንም ሲፈራ ሲችል ሲቸር ከትንሽ ከቆታ በኋላ መልሶ ስልክ ይደውላል፡፡ ታዲያ የአምላክ ነገር ሆኖ ሳይመን ትልቁን ምስራች ደረሰው እናቱ በሂወት መኖሯን ተረዳ፡፡ ወዲያው ከአላስካ እንደተመለሰ ወደ የቦ የጉዞ ወኪል መትቶ በአስቸኳይ ወደ ናይሮቢ ለመጓዝ ጠየቀን፣ እኛም በደስታ ወደ ናሮቢ የሚሄድበትን ትኬት በደቂቃ ውስጥ አዘጋጅተን ሰጠነው፡፡ የአሜሪካው ማስተር ካርድ እንደሚላው ከዚህ አገልግሎት የምናገኘው እርካታ.. ፕራይስለስ ነው፡፡ ትንሽ የሚያሳዝነው አባቱም እስከ 2005 ደረስ በሂዎት እንደቆዩና ሳይገናኑ መቅረታቸውን አና በሞት እንደተለዩ ሲነገረው ወንድሞቹም ደህና መሆናቸውን ለማቅ ችሏል፡፡ የቦ የጉዞ ወኪል ወይም የቦ ቢሮ የሰወችን የጎዞ ማስተናገድ ባቻ ብይሆን ብዙ አገልግሎቶችን የሚሰጥበት ማእከል ነው፡፡ ከዚህ በፊት የተደረጉ ብዙ ደስ የሚሉ አገልግሎቶች ቡኖሩም የዛሬው ግን ትንሽ ለየት ሰለሚል ለንባብ ማብቃቱ ታሪኩን ከእናንተ ጋር ለመካፈል ስለሚያስችለን እስኪ አብረን እናውጋው፡፡

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