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Ethiopia to participate in Dubai Expo

Nov 9 , 2019

Ethiopia will be participating in EXPO 2020, which will be hosted in Dubai. The expo will take place with the theme "Connecting Minds, Creating the Future." The country's participation in the expo is expected to boost the bilateral trade relations between the two nations. Recently, Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, minister of Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), received Fetlework Gebre-Egziabher, minister of Trade & Industry, at his office. During her visit, Fetlework hailed the long-standing and growing relations between the two sides as she expressed her country’s determination to leverage their partnership across various domains. “Ethiopia has a large and emerging consumer market of up to 100 million people with promising economic potential and enormous, diverse resources that are still much untapped in a number of sectors,” the UAE minister said during the bilateral meeting.

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CLEAN SWEEP

A young shoe shiner goes door to door, offering his services around the Stadium area. It is common in the capital to see young rural migrants engaged in physical labour, scraping change to send home. CHR Michelsen Institute (CMI) estimates that one out of three rural households has at least one family member migrating to cities. Extreme poverty and lack of access to farmland force many to look for better prospects in the city. Upward income mobility has remained stagnant over the last five years...

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WET CARRIAGE

A carriage around the Ayat area delivers water, as homes rarely access tap water in the area. Ethiopia has nine major rivers, and twelve big lakes, often called the water tower of Africa. However, UNICEF estimates that up to 80pc of communicable diseases in Ethiopia are due to a lack of access to safe water and sanitation. The second most populous country in Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest percentage of the population without access to potable water at 60pc, while the average daily consumptio...

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FRIENDLY SHOOT OUTS

Holiday activities at Jan Meda included penalty shoot outs for cash pay alongside other carnival games. The World Cup final in Qatar ended in penalty shoot outs this year, a global audience of 1.5 billion watched the spectacle. While the tournament's ending had stirred planetary awe, the death of 37 workers during the construction of the stadiums had given the games a sour taste early on. The tournament broke records of the biggest budget of more than 200 billion dollars and the most spectators...

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