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Ethiopian Conducts Successful Boeing 737 MAX Test Flight

Jan 29 , 2022

Ethiopian Airlines has successfully conducted a test flight using the Boeing 737 MAX, nearly three years after the aircraft was grounded following a crash that took the lives of 149 passengers and eight crew members. The test flight departed Addis Abeba Bole International Airport around midday on January 28, 2022, and arrived at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, shortly afterwards. The national carrier has five 737 MAX 8 aircraft stored in its hangars in Addis Abeba. Ethiopian plans to fly the Boeing 737 MAX to eight new routes once the aircraft resumes services next month. The new destinations include Athens, Moscow and Istanbul.

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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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