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Court sides with Nahoo TV against Zami Fm

Ledeta’s First instance Court has blocked the property of radio station Zami’s 90.7, after the FM station failed to return five million birr of Nahoo’s TV down payment. Zami agreed to sell the radio station for 16 million to Nahoo. After the agreement Nahoo gave a five million birr down payment to the radio station. However, Zami’s owner changed their mind and decided not to sell the station. In response Nahho asked Zami to return the down payment. However, the TV station said Zami FM has refused to return the money. As a result, they sued Zami at Ledeta First Instance Court which sided with Nahoo and placed a lean against the radio station’s properties including an Atoz and Mitsubishi car which are owned by the Zami until the down payment is returned to Nahoo.
Ethiopia starts Cholera vaccination

The Ethiopian Public Health Institute (EPHI) disclosed that over 700 thousand vaccinations have been imported to start vaccinating people against Cholera next week now that people have died and the disease has been confirmed in four regions and Addis Ababa.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/ethiopia-starts-cholera-vaccination/
Water shortage creates new businesses

Delivering tap water is the task of the city’s Water and Sewerage Authority. Because of the inability to meet resident’s demand for portable water; the Authority has begun rationing and delivers water by tankers to the mountainous part of the city. However, individuals and business institutions are forced to buy water from vendors and water tank truck owners even though distributing water is the sole right of the Authority. This may incur the business owners and the Authority personnel to vandalism by disrupting the rationing schedule.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/water-shortage-creates-new-businesses/
Koracon wins 191m birr lawsuit over Gimb Gebeya

The Federal High Court’s 20th Civil Bench has given a final verdict in favor of Koracon Construction, which sued Gimb Gebeya Market SC, a company formed by traders at the prominent market location called Gimb Gebeya in Adama Town. The defendant will have to pay 110 million birr and interest and compensation for breaching a contract agreement.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/koracon-wins-191m-birr-lawsuit-over-gimb-gebeya/
Simpler water payments
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) and the Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority (AAWSA) agreed to collect water bills for its 550 thousand customers through any of the CBE transaction mechanisms.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/simpler-water-payments/
Agency expected to suspend neck sleeve packaging on bottled water

The National Standardization Council, which is responsible for approving the national quality and standardization strategy proposed by the Ethiopian Standard Agency (ESA), is expected to suspend neck sleeve packaging on bottled water and juice when it meets later this month.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/agency-expected-to-suspend-neck-sleeve-packaging-on-bottled-water/
Condos being rented as guesthouses, offices

Exact numbers are unknown, but several condos in Gerji, Lideta, Baldras, Goterra, Summit and Basha Welde are providing guest house service for diaspora and foreigners and charging between 13,000 and 18,000 birr a month.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/condos-being-rented-as-guesthouses-offices/
Nile staff under fire for fake insurance claim
Seven employees of Nile Insurance Company’s head office are being investigated by the Nifas Silke Lafto Sub- City Police after 47,000 birr went missing from their Abyssinia Bank account in an attempt to forge claim payments.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/nile-staff-under-fire-for-fake-insurance-claim/
Public-private partnership in store for Addis rail line
The Ministry of Finance plans to engage in a public private partnership (PPP) engagement in railway infrastructure with domestic and foreign investors. The sector bankrupted the nation by swallowing extra expenses so that the revenue didn’t even cover its operation cost.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/public-private-partnership-in-store-for-addis-rail-line/
MoTI sides with local investors against supplier’s credit
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) is denouncing the National Bank of Ethiopia’s (NBE) ‘External Loan and Supplier’s Credit Directives FXD/47/ 2017’ that gives the right to foreign investors to access foreign loans at the cost of local industries. The scheme has also been criticized for its vulnerability to corruption because approval is based on a one to one scheme.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/featured/moti-sides-with-local-investors-against-suppliers-credit/
Climate change is real
Climate change is increasingly becoming a serious challenge to Ethiopia’s’ socioeconomic development. Various manifestations of its impact are evident in Ethiopia, which include increase in drought, scarcity of food instigated somewhat by irregularities in rainfall and over flooding.
Anthropologist Teferi Abate Adem (PhD) who is living in the U.S argues that Ethiopians are tired of crush campaign and top-down power and have to look for more innovative strategies to unleash the knowledge and energies of rural people to do better job in climate problems.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/interview/climate-change-is-real/
SO SAID SO DONE
“…I’m not boasting, I’m toasting…” Bob Marley

Jetlag got the best of me last week as I began my 3-month tour to the US and Jamaica, but the good news is the next few columns will be share my escapades. My week of activities began in Chicago with a host of events organized by Gallery Guichard (GG), the leading Black owned art gallery in Bronzeville, a historic Black area in Chicago. The owners, Andre and France Guichard and Stephen Mitchell were introduced to me via phone exactly one year ago by Ambassador Erieka Bennett the Head of Mission for the Diaspora African Forum (DAF). https://www.capitalethiopia.com/discourse-with-dr-desta/so-said-so-done/
FLAGS FLY HIGH

This week I write to you from Juneteenth Sankofa Days Festival in Buffalo, New York. The city is also famous for Niagara Falls which few may know was the last stop on the underground-railroad, a route of secret trails and safe houses in the USA for enslaved African descendants headed to free states, Canada and Nova Scotia. Side note,maps of these routes were braided into women’s hair to help ensure safe path. As I took questions on the history of resilience of Ethiopians, it was obvious that though the proud narrative of the non-colonization of Ethiopia is touted at home, this profound history continues to inspire millions of Africans here and there in the 21st century. African Americans wear the win of Ethiopia over Italy as a badge of honor and hope.
https://www.capitalethiopia.com/discourse-with-dr-desta/flags-fly-high/
Nestle sponsors clean up day
Nestlé employees and families collaborated with Sululta Municipality Offices, and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society to organize a clean-up exercise on Saturday June 8 at Sululta town, one of the bottled water factories on the north outskirts of Addis Ababa a prominent training area for Ethiopian athletes.
The exercise was held to commemorate the 2019 World Oceans Day and support the Battle Against Plastic Pollution in Ethiopia. https://www.capitalethiopia.com/capital/nestle-sponsors-clean-up-day/