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Jul 6 , 2019

Parliament Legislates Stringent Labour Law

Parliament has a legislated stringent new labour law during its session held on July 4, 2019. Drafted by the Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs, the proclamation aims at creating a conducive en...

Jul 6 , 2019

Lawmakers Approve Revised VAT Bill

Parliament legislated a new Value Added Tax (VAT) proclamation, which replaces a 17-year-old law. The new proclamation will reduce the VAT reporting time from 12 times a year to just four for compa...

Jul 6 , 2019

Ethiopia Resumes Deploying Domestic Workers to Qatar

Ethiopia opened overseas employment to Qatar effective July 5, 2019, concluding a bilateral labour agreement with the destination country. The first batch of domestic workers have arrived in Doha,...

Jul 6 , 2019

Irish Extend Hand to Support Election

The government of Ireland has signed a 700,000 euro financing agreement with UNDP to provide support for Ethiopia's upcoming election. The agreement was signed between the Ambassador of Ireland, So...

Jul 6 , 2019

Egyptian Bank Eyes Ethiopia

Egypt's Commercial International Bank (CIB) plans to open a representative office in Ethiopia at the end of this month. Though the country does not yet grant licenses to foreign financial instituti...

Jul 6 , 2019

Coca-Cola Set to Build Fourth Plant

Coca-Cola has announced that it is going to build a bottling plant in Sebeta at a cost of 70 million dollars. The plant in Sebeta town 25Km west of Addis Abeba will have the capacity to produce up...

Jul 6 , 2019

China Donates Agricultural Textbooks

The Ministry of Agriculture has distributed 1,000 copies of two textbooks for 16 Agricultural Technical & Vocational Education & Training (ATVET) colleges. Funded by Ethio China ATVET Progr...

Jun 29 , 2019

TOURISM WINNER

Eyob Tekalgne (PhD) (left), state minister for Finance, and Hirut Kassaw (PhD) (center), minister of Culture & Tourism, awarded Samrawit Moges of Travel Ethiopia for her tireless efforts to promot...

Jun 29 , 2019

CLOSED DOWN

Inspection officers from the Wereda Health Bureau make surprise inspections around Saris. This shop is being forced to close, because the owner placed soft drinks and water in front of his shop, expos...

Jun 29 , 2019

FIRING UP THE DISH

A waiter in one of the hotels in Sekota lights up his creatively assembled fireplace for his nighttime customers. The fire pit is fashioned similarly to the ones at most hotels in the city. However, t...

Jun 29 , 2019

Supreme Court Updates Judge Nomination System

The Federal Supreme Court is implementing a three-year project to ensure the appointment of judges is based on competence, to create a proper flow of court cases, conduct research and improve the exis...

Jun 29 , 2019

A New Edible Oil Hits Shelves

Belayneh Kinde Import & Export Plc has invested 2.5 billion Br for the construction of an edible oil plant in West Gojam Zone Bure town, Amhara Regional State. Resting on 30ha, the plant will h...

Jun 29 , 2019

ECX Adds One More Commodity

The Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) has started trading chickpeas at five of its 23 branches as of June 28, 2019. The branches located in Saris, Adama, Bure, Kombolcha and Gonder have started tra...

Jun 29 , 2019

Dire Dawa Inaugurates 19m Br Business Centre

Dire Dawa City Administration has inaugurated a business centre and workshop built for small and medium enterprises with an investment of 19 million Br. The centre is a three-storey structure dedic...

Jun 29 , 2019

Netherlands Pledges $50m to Agricultural Commercialisation

Ethiopia and the Netherlands signed a 50-million-dollar grant agreement that will be used for the Agricultural Commercialization Clusters project. The agreement was signed between Admasu Nebebe, st...

Jun 29 , 2019

Corporation Secures 950m Br Dam Project

Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation secured a project to construct the 950-million-Br Guder Fato Irrigation Dam in West Shoa Zone of Oromia Regional State. The Ministry of Water, Irrigation &a...

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