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Special edition- Teffgate: A Dutchman’s conning of the Ethiopian State
Please click here to download the e-magazine version of this report Zecharias Zelalem Addis Abeba, November 27/2019 – In February of this year, Ethiopians on social media were in a celebratory mood when the news broke of a nation’s festering wound being apparently bandaged up. The wound emanated from the …
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Analysis: The patenting of Ethiopia’s Teff by a European company, and the country’s recourse
Dagim T., for Addis Standard Addis Abeba, February 07/2019 – On May 19, 2018, the Ethiopian government gave its Attorney General the green light to initiate an international arbitration proceeding against a company holding a series of European patents directed at the grain teff. And on November 21, 2018, a …