Etiopia
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Today, Africa has emerged from this dark path. Our Armageddon has passed
— Haile Selassie I
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Reversing the cycle of risk in Ethiopia
Source: UN Development Programme Country: EthiopiaWeather insurance, water harvesting, diverse cash crops, land management, new technologies and community-based approaches are enhancing Ethiopia’s resilience to climate change.Weather insurance, water harvesting, diverse cash crops, land management, new technologies and community-based approaches enhance Ethiopia’s resilience to climate change Rain-fed agriculture is becoming risky business for ...
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Ethiopia's Tedros Leading Candidate for Top WHO Job
[New Times] Ethiopia's Foreign Affairs minister Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has received strong backing from African countries to head the World Health Organisation (WHO), whose elections are due next month.
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UNHCR says death risk from starvation in Horn of Africa, Yemen, Nigeria growing, displacement already rising
Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees Country: Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Sudan, United Republic of Tanzania, YemenThis warning is in light of droughts that are also affecting many neighbouring countries and a funding shortfall so severe that an avoidable humanitarian crisis in the region, possibly worse than that ...
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Lake Chad Basin: a crisis rooted in hunger, poverty and lack of rural development
Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, NigeriaLake Chad lost some 90 percent of its water mass with devastating consequences on the food security and livelihoods of people depending on fishing and irrigation-based activities.FAO Director-General calls for critical investments in agriculture and addressing climate change 11 ...
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Does the Tax Incentives Benefit Ethiopia?
[Addis Fortune] Emerging economies have introduced tax incentives for various reasons. In some countries in transition, such instruments may be seen as a counterweight to the investment disincentives inherent in the general tax system. In other countries, the incentives are intended to offset other disadvantages that investors may face, such ...
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Harnessing Public-Private Partnership for Agricultural Development
[Ethiopian Herald] Agriculture remains to be the dominant sector in Ethiopia's economy and an important source of economic growth.
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CBE Puts Private Banks in Cash Strap
The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has advanced to the state-owned banking giant, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), one billion dollars in foreign currency, which risks putting private banks in…
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Belayab Breaks into Pickup Rental Business
Belayab Motors signed an agreement with Huawei Technologies Ethiopia Plc (HTE) to provide car rental services costing 1,800 Br per day for the next three years for use around Addis…
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Why GERD Is Symbol of New Might, National Consensus
[Ethiopian Herald] There was times when Ethiopia wanted to embark upon various development ventures exploiting its abundant natural resources, yet it could not do so due to a variety of reasons. First of all, being a country with modest financial resources, it could not afford to pursue such projects. However, ...
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Business News: Lamu port to create half a million jobs
Lamu will be developed into a city of more than 1.1 million people when a proposed transport corridor linking Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia is completed.
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Business: Lamu port to create half a million jobs
Lamu will be developed into a city of more than 1.1 million people when a proposed transport corridor linking Kenya, South Sudan and Ethiopia is completed.
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Ethio-Brazil Bilateral Cooperation
[Ethiopian Herald] Brazil and Ethiopia have had a long diplomatic relations which dates back to the 1950s. In recent times, the two countries have renovated their relations. While Brazil reopened its embassy in Addis in 2005, Ethiopia, in its turn, reopened its resident embassy in Brazil by 2011. The two ...
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Steel companies conduct study to determine duty free effect
The Ethiopian Association of Basic Metals and Engineering Industries (EABMEI), which is mostly made up of local steel manufactures, has begun a detailed study to provide insight into the government’s new policy on steel. Samuel Mulugeta, Board Member of the association told Capital that EABMEI decided to do this ...
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EU Business Forum officially registers in Ethiopia
The EU Business Forum was officially launched on March 29, 2017 at the Sheraton Hotel. The event was attended by officials from the Ethiopian Investment Commission, the European Union Ethiopia Delegation as well as EU business communities. The EU Business Forum was recently formally registered in Ethiopia becoming the ...
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Habesha Cement targets export quality concrete, gypsum board
Habesha Cement is expected to join the cement market in the near future and plans to introduce a unique type of concrete. Mesfin Abi (Eng), CEO of the company, told Capital that this is a higher quality cement and it will make a difference in local and regional construction. ...
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President Al-Bashir and Desalegn Hold Round of Talks
[SNA] Addis Ababa -The Foreign Minister, Prof. Ibrahim Ghandour, has described the current visit of the President of the Republic, Field Marshal Omer Al-Bashir, to Ethiopia and his meeting with the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Haile-Mariam Desalegn, as one of most successful visits that were carried out by President Al-Bashir recently.
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Tourism Sector Tries to Stay Above Water
[Addis Fortune] Abdurahim Ahmed, 55, who has three years of experience in the tourism industry, is the general manager of Experience Ethiopia Travel, a tour company which has been in the business for the past two decades.
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Govt's Land Grabs 'Ignored by World Bank'
[IPS] Stockholm -Sales of huge land areas of Ethiopia, by the Ethiopian government, to foreign investors, have led to starvation and forced displacement. In his documentary Dead Donkeys Fear no Hyenas, Swedish film director Joakim Demmer exposes the consequences of land grabbing, and holds the World Bank complicit.
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Azerbajan, Ethiopia Promoting Amicable Ties
[Ethiopian Herald] Azerbaijan Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson said that his nation is committed to lay strong foundation to bolster its overall bilateral and multilateral relations with Ethiopia. He made the remark during a recent exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald.
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Donkey Meat Up for Export, Slaughterhouse Opens
Ethiopia is to export donkey’s meat, following the start of operations at a slaughterhouse in Bishoftu (Debrezeit) town, 48Km east of Addis Abeba. Shandong Dong, a donkey slaughterhouse, has just…
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Business: Tanzania plans to import 400 MW of electricity from Ethiopia
Tanzania plans to import 400 megawatts (MW) of electricity from Ethiopia to power its industrial drive, Tanzanian President John Magufuli said on Friday.