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Equity Firm Expands to Logistics, E-commerce

Feb 23 , 2019

RENEW Investment Advisers, a Canadian equity firm, founded its second investment in Ethiopia engaged in the logistics and e-commerce industries. Members of RENEW’s Impact Angel Network have funded a second investment in Roadrunner Technology Solutions LLC, which partners with Universal Courier Services Plc, a.k.a. Deliver Addis, to expand the burgeoning logistics and e-commerce industries in Ethiopia. Deliver Addis is a technology-based online food delivery company launched in October 2015. Roadrunner and Deliver Addis will utilise the Impact Angel’s initial investment to enhance and expand its restaurant delivery services for consumers in Addis Abeba..

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LOFTY CONSTRUCTS

A painting depicts traditional farming equipment at the Science Museum around the Arat Kilo area. Since the seizing of power by the current administration, large-scale architectural projects marked by grandeur have proliferated across the capital. The satellite city being built in the Yeka mountains, which is set to cost around 600 billion Br, according to the Prime Minister, is one such project yet to see the light of day. Some estimates put the plot size for the project at around 503hct despit...

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CLEAN BILL

A queue for diagnostics at the nation's largest state-owned hospital, Black Lion. As the health sector is largely funded by development partners from abroad, decreased support as donors shied away due to the war in the North has required the suspension of several new projects. Social health Insurance slated for next year was scraped due to a budgetary shortfall of five billion Birr. With the physician-to-patient ratio titering at around 1:30,000, queues in public hospitals are commonplace in Eth...

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ACRID GROUNDS

A street vendor puts up pepper for sale around the Lideta area. With agricultural produce accounting for the largest share of the nation's GDP at around 40pc, setbacks in the delivery of fertilizer have become a source of strife in rural Ethiopia. Only a third of the scheduled fertilizer of 1.3 million quintals has been distributed into the hands of farmers this year. This is despite the year being one in which the government claims to have met local demand for wheat and started exporting. Low p...

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