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APA-Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) Ethiopian airlines announced on Wednesday that it will acquire two Boeing 777-200LRs in November, making the airline “the first in Africa to operate the world’s most technologically advanced and longest-range aircraft”, a statement said here.

Ethiopian airlines, which bought these planes with a multi million dollar investment, currently operates an all-Boeing fleet, including the 737, 757, 767, MD11 Freighter and one 747 cargo aircraft.

Ethiopian’s vision of the future includes five 777-200LRs and ten 787 Dreamliner as well as 12 Airbus 350s, all of which will significantly enhance its network expansion and generate more revenue.

The airline is expected to spend billions of dollars to acquire these planes.

“The 777-200LR aircraft, which entered service in March 2006, has the capability to connect virtually any two cities in the world non-stop. It will enable Ethiopian Airlines to connect Addis Ababa to the U.S. and to more destinations in Asia non-stop,” said airline.

Ethiopian’s 777-200LRs are configured to carry a total of 321 passengers and a full cargo load on routes where other planes are limited.

Yebbo Communication Network issued more than 4500 eGreeting custom cards for its Facebook fans. For the last past few  years Yebbo Communications Network has been expanding its online social networking presence in various  areas such as Facebook and Twritter.  Yebbo Update its fans about  travel, language, art, culture, religion, music, history, sport and other arenas  where information exchange is needed. Through its unlimited effort Yebbo.Com now can reach more than 10,000 active Facebook users who has common interest in various areas. Yebbo has been using the new social networking media to reach and share ideas in breaking news, history, travel and deals and other aspects.

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By Tamiru Tsige & Hayal Alemayehu

Ethiopian new one Birr Coin. Sep. 5, 2010

National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has dispatched to banks the new one-birr coins that are going to replace the current notes, whose circulation life is estimated at not be more than three years.

The Royal Canadian Mint (RCM), the company that won the official tender floated by the bank to make the coins, has delivered to the NBE more than 400 million one-birr coins, which are dealt out to the private and state-owned commercial banks in the course of the past ten days.

Sources told The Reporter that the 400 million one-birr coins cost the bank some 300 million birr, with the cost ratio of 75 cent apiece. However, the coins are not to be in circulations before the coming Ethiopian New Year and, so far, they are sealed in boxes.

The silver-color coin features a lion’s head on one side while the other depicts a scale. The lion’s head and the scale are imprinted in a golden color with silver sidelines completing the appearance.

The new coins, with an estimated life span of 20 years and above, are going to be circulated in the market concurrently with notes while the latter phases out until it is replaced completely. Information from the bank shows that the coins are fit for usage in vending machines.

The first paper based one-birr note entered circulation in Ethiopia during the regime of Emperor Menelik II while the subsequent governments revised the features and the color of the note whenever they saw fit.

The international tender floated by the NBE drew bids from coin makers from United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and France while the RCM (Canadian) won and did the job.

A French company, Francois-Charles Oberthur, and the British de La Rue Prints, supply the 50 and 160-birr notes and one and five-birr notes to Ethiopia respectively.