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Dec 12 , 2020

Chamber, Ethio Promotions team-up for Trade Fair in DC

The Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce & Sectoral Association has partnered with Ethio Promotions LLC to host a trade fair in Washington, D.C. next year. The two parties signed a memorandum of understa...

Dec 12 , 2020

Red Cross Relief Convoy Arrives in Meqelle

The International Committee of the Red Cross has delivered a convoy containing medical supplies and other necessary aid items to Meqelle, capital of Tigray Regional State. The convoy of seven trucks i...

Dec 12 , 2020

Denmark Backs Meteorological Agency with 8.8m Euros

The Ministry of Finance and Danske Bank, a Danish commercial bank, signed a loan financing agreement amounting to close to nine million euros last Friday, December 11, 2020. The loan has been acquired...

Dec 12 , 2020

Agricultural Corporation Avoids Anticipated Loss

The Ethiopian Agricultural Business Corporation has managed to surpass its initial earnings target by 125pc. The firm brought in 724.8 million Br in revenues in the first quarter of this fiscal year....

Dec 12 , 2020

Council Approves 10-Year Dev't Plan

The Council of Ministers has approved the 10-year Perspective Development Plan put forward by the Planning & Development Commission last week. The Plan intends to achieve 10.2pc annual economic gr...

Dec 12 , 2020

Japan Bequeaths 3.4m Br to Primary School

Japan donated 90,000 dollars last week for the construction of a library and teachers' rooms at Temenja Yaj Primary School in Addis Abeba. The school requested Japan's assistance to accommodate its gr...

Dec 5 , 2020

TILT

An Isuzu truck, after collecting too much garbage from various pick-up spots, has gotten stuck in a hole, making the vehicle tilt to one side and causing one tyre to lift off the ground. Garbage conti...

Dec 5 , 2020

NO BREAD SHEGER

There was much enthusiasm following the inauguration of the industrial scale bread factory, Sheger, funded by MIDROC's Horizon Plantations Plc. With a capacity of baking 1.6 million loaves of bread an...

Dec 5 , 2020

INNOVATIVE MOVES

Despite slowing down in recent years, the construction industry has been on an upward trajectory. Along its journey, it has found ways of dealing with challenges arising from a shortage of equipment....

Dec 5 , 2020

Local Startup Makes Strides in Global Contest

Rohobot Home Based Health Care Service Plc, a local healthcare startup, has advanced to the regional finals of the Seedstars World Competition 2020 where it will compete with two dozen other African s...

Dec 5 , 2020

Career Expo Set to be Held Virtually

The second edition of a Virtual Career Expo organised by Dereja.com, a business unit of Ethiojobs.net, is set to take place between December 8 and December 18, 2020. Dereja.com is working in tandem...

Dec 5 , 2020

Safety Net Graduates Take Life Skills, Financial Training

The Food Security & Productive Safety Net Agency has started its second round of life skills and financial literacy training for 49,000 heads of households. Trainees are part of the 201,000 benefi...

Dec 5 , 2020

ECX Records Highest Transaction

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) made a record high volume and value of sales on December 1, 2020, amounting 427.9 million Br. Established eight years ago, the ECX traded 293 million Br worth of...

Dec 5 , 2020

State Construction Firms Bag 770m Br in Revenues

Two state-owned construction companies under the auspices of the Public Enterprises Holding & Administration Agency generated 770.5 million Br in revenues during the first quarter of this fiscal y...

Dec 5 , 2020

Fourth Malting Firm to Commence Operations in March

The fourth malt factory in the country, Soufflet Malt Ethiopia, is set to commence operations this coming March at its plant built inside Bole Lemi Industrial Park for a total investment of 70 million...

Dec 5 , 2020

WB Commits $512.5m for Adaptive Safety Net

The World Bank's International Development Association (IDA) and the Ministry of Finance have signed an agreement for 512.5 million dollars for the implementation of the Strengthen Ethiopia's Adaptive...

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