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Nov 9 , 2019

Fuel Tariffs to Remain Consistent in November

The Ministry of Trade & Industry will not revise fuel prices except for jet fuel this month. Jet fuel will see a decrease in its price by almost two Birr to 24.87 Br a litre. The Ministry evalu...

Nov 9 , 2019

Ethiopia to participate in Dubai Expo

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...

Nov 9 , 2019

Genale Dam to Begin Production

The Genale Dawa III hydropower project will start producing electricity in January next year. Costing 450 million dollars, the project will boost the country's power generation capacity by 254MW. W...

Nov 9 , 2019

New Incubation Centre to Rise in 2020

Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) will invest in the establishment of an innovation incubation centre in Ethiopia. Costing 10 million dollars, it will open in 2020. “The incubation c...

Nov 9 , 2019

Fashion Week Commences in Addis

The All African Leather Fair and African Sourcing Fashion Week opens at Millennium Hall on November 9, 2019. Two workshops with themes “Tanneries improving competitiveness through environmental c...

Nov 2 , 2019

KNOCKED OVER

A metal ornament in the shape of a trophy and adorned with the national flag that was meant to decorate Mesquel Square in Addis Abeba has been left knocked down out of place...

Nov 2 , 2019

EXCLUSIVE PARKING

Navigating in the streets of Addis Abeba is not an easy task for any motorist but it must be quite a nightmare for the city bus drivers. The capital's agressive drivers notorious for not even an ambul...

Nov 2 , 2019

UPROOTED

It did not last long. It was only three months ago that thousands of seedlings were planted in Adwa Park, Bole District in Addis Abeba as part of Ethiopia's drive to plant 350 million trees in a day a...

Nov 2 , 2019

Soufflet Receives €20m in Investment

The International Finance Corporation and the Private Sector Window of the Global Agriculture & Food Security Program has invested 20 million euros in Soufflet Malt Ethiopia, a subsidiary of the F...

Nov 2 , 2019

Maize Provides Increased Export Trade from Uganda, Ethiopia and Tanzania

The presence of high demand in Kenya and the improving market functionality in South Sudan has led to increased export from Uganda with maize grain on top of the commodity trade in the regional market...

Nov 2 , 2019

Exports Fetch Quarter Billion in September

Ethiopia generated 255.6 million dollars from exports in September, fulfilling almost four-fifths of the government's estimate. Compared to the same period in the last fiscal year, an increase of arou...

Nov 2 , 2019

Two New Hotels Receive Star Ratings

The Ministry of Culture & Tourism, mandated to asses the standards of hotels, gave star ratings to Hyatt Regency and Eliana hotels on October 29,2019. While the former received a five–star ratin...

Nov 2 , 2019

ECX Quarterly Transactions Hit Seven Billion Br

The Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX) transacted seven billion Birr from 131,000tn of commodities in the first quarter of this year. Out of the total amount transacted, coffee took the lion's share...

Nov 2 , 2019

Addis to Host SheTrades Global Forum

Ethiopia will host the SheTrades Global Forum of 2019. The event, which will be organised in conjunction with the World Export Development Forum, will be held on November 19 and 2019. SheTrades Glo...

Nov 2 , 2019

Dukem Quadruples Tax Income in Half Decade

Income taxes in Dukem, one of industrial hubs of Ethiopia, has almost quadrupled in the last half decade. The annual total income tax of the town rose from 74.2 million Br to 271 million Br by the...

Nov 2 , 2019

Chamber Holds Third Fair

The third Addis Chamber International Manufacturing & Trade fair opened on Thursday. With the theme of "trade logistics facilitation for competitiveness in manufacturing,” it will run at the Add...

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