MANUFACTURE BDL Group to Build Textiles, Garment Factory BDL Group, a Bangladesh-based company is going to build textiles and garment factory in Mekelle town, with over 765 million Birr. The…
Mining Mining Contributes to County’s Transformation Ministry of Mines (MoM) announced that the mining sector in Ethiopia is greatly contributing to the transformation of the country from agriculture lead economy…
Infrastructure Ethio-Djibouti Asphalt Road almost Complete The Ethiopian Roads Authority (ERA) Announced 93pc completion of Ethio-Djibouti asphalt road. The project is fully financed by the Ethiopian government and constructed by…
Investment Investment Commission Registers Projects worth 18.45b Br for 2013/14 The Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC) has announced that 226 investment projects have registered 18.45 billion Br in 2013/2014 fiscal year,…
Meteorology NASA’s Project to Enhance Forecast, Use of Weather NASA Great Horn of Africa Project announced a capacity building work to enhance the weather forecast services and effective use of…
Aviation Aviation Authority Claims Near Perfect Revenue Collection Performance The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA) collects 148 million Br of revenue, two million short of its plan for 2013/14, from…
Railway ERC Announces 73pc of City Railway Construction Completed The Ethiopian Railway Corporation (ERC) announced that 73pc of the city railway construction is completed and therefore will begin examination service…
Aviation ET Chief Receives Leadership Award The Board of Directors awarded Tewolde Gebre-Mariam, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Ethiopian Airlines, for his exceptional leadership, dedication and hard work, according…
Budget Oromia Approves 31.6b Br Budget The Oromia State Council approves over 31.6 billion Br budget for the current fiscal year on a meeting held in Adama. This amount exceeds…
International partnerships US to open a trade liaison office in Addis Ababa US commerce secretary Penny Pritzker announced a plan to open a trade liaison office in Addis Ababa to…
WATER Ministry to Execute over $2 bln. WASH The Ministry of Water, Irrigation & Energy (MoWIE) announced that it would execute water supply and sanitation software and hardware activities at…
Human Capital Nation to Settle Strategy to Stop Inter-generational Poverty The Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs (MoLSA) announced that the nation has set to settle social protection policy implementation…
AGRICULTURE State Aims to Harvest 177 Million Quintals of Grain The Agriculture Bureau of theOromiaRegionalStatesaid it has set a target to harvest 177 million quintals of grains during the current…
REVENUE EnterpriseEnvisages to Earn 380m Br Revenue from Coffee Coffee Plantation Development Enterprise said it has envisaged to earn 380 million Br revenue from sale of coffee and other agricultural…
CONSTRUCTION Zone Launches Construction, Renovation of Safe Water Facilities Construction and renovation of 1,768 safe water facilities was launched in South Wollo zone of Amhara Regional State with an outlay…
EMPLOYMENT Oromia Creates 900,000 Jobs Close to 900,000 jobs were created in Oromia Regional State during the concluded budget year. While evaluating the 2012/13 performance report, Oromia Industry & Urban…
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