Etiopia
Vai alla Scheda Paese »Today, Africa has emerged from this dark path. Our Armageddon has passed
— Haile Selassie I
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Untangling Ethiopia's Export Mixed Bag
[Addis Fortune] Ethiopia has around 128 destinations for its exports, which can be classified into three major categories:
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UBER for Ethiopia?
The mobile application Uber was considered a game changer because it was one of the inspirations for the sharing economy, where people could start business using their own phone and property. Soon many similar companies such as Lyft popped up all over the world. Uber is even in neighboring Kenya ...
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IFMIS concerns continue as second company disputes process
Controversy has erupted since one of the bidders in the latest Integrated Financial Management Information Systems (IFMIS) rollout project filed a complaint against the winning company in the bid evaluation process. However, the project owner, the Ministry of Finance and Economic Cooperation (MoFEC) rejected the company’s request asking the ministry ...
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EEP awards HQ project to Chinese contractor
Ethiopian Electric Power (EEP) awarded its new Head Quarter construction project to Chinese contractor CGCOC Group. EEP stated that the project that is estimated to cost 2.5 billion birr has been awarded to a foreign contractor due to the scale and complexity of the project as well as lack of ...
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Ethiopia slipping on rule of law, claims report
Ethiopia’s overall rule of law performance places it at 16 out of 18 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, 10th out of 12 low income countries and 107th out of 113 countries, a report by the World Justice Project (WJP) claims. The WJP Rule of Law Index 2016 states that ...
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Ethiopia Becomes African Trade Insurance Agency Member
[Addis Fortune] Ethiopia joins the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI). which opens itsdoors to insure political risk in the country, This move comes after a year-long process of membership supported financially by the African Development Bank and culminated in the signing of the agreement in Nairobi on October 19.
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Ethiopia, Sudan Broadening Ties
[Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia and Sudan enjoy age-old relations in religious and and cultural spheres. Nowadays the two countries strengthened their relations to harness business and trade potentials.
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Chain Hotels Eyeing Ethiopia's Untapped Hotel Industry
[Ethiopian Herald] Although Ethiopia has ample potentials for tourism and hospitality industry, it's yet to benefit from its untapped tourism industry. Insufficient finance to the industry coupled with few numbers of branded hotels lags the industry behind other sectors.
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GERD's National & Regional Significance
[Ethiopian Herald] Subject to a vicious cycle of drought for long, the agrarian state Ethiopia was heavily dependent on foreign aids to rescue the lives of its people some of which breathe their last before salivation arrives from some quarters. The country had no option than dependency syndrome.
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State of Emergency Command Post Claims Sweeping Success
[Addis Standard] In a statement it released yesterday, the Command Post leading Ethiopia's recently enacted State of Emergency claimed a sweeping success in restoring law and order in different parts of the country within the last three days alone.
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ATI starts Ethiopia political cover to ease traders’ risk fears
Kenyan investors can now comfortably invest in Ethiopia, one of the continent’s fastest-growing economies, after African Trade Insurance Agency started insuring political risk in the country.
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Managing migration effectively: EC reports progress with third countries
The European Commission today presented its first progress Report on implementing the Partnership Frameworks with third countries: the EU's new approach to more effectively managing migration jointly with countries of origin and transit is starting to yield results.Four months after the Commission proposed this new Framework and its endorsement by ...
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Govt Limits Foreign Diplomats' Movements
[Al Jazeera] Ethiopia has restricted foreign diplomats' travel in new provisions of a state of emergency as part of its response to an unprecedented wave of anti-government protests.
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Details of the State of Emergency announced
Details of the State of Emergency was announced by Siraj Fegessa Minister of Defence and Secretariat of the Command Post on Saturday October 15. The details include travel ban and a curfew on investments, major projects and governmental institutions. Here are the major points According to the details Diplomats of other ...
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Trade Bureau says most food prices remain stable
Despite the current unrest impacting the smooth flow of trucks bringing agricultural products to Addis Ababa from the Amahara and Ormia region, the Addis Ababa Trade bureau said that the violence has not brought many price increases. According to the bureau only Neche or white teff has gone up. Its ...
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Germany and geo-economics
Germany has emerged over the past decade as the big winner in the West from globalization, the Export-master of the world in its class. It is the paradigm of a geo-economic power, one that relies on its economic rather than its military power for its influence and which defines its ...
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Teshome Ayele
Name: Teshome Ayele Education: 10th grade Company Name: Balehageru Tour Travel and Car Rent Studio title: Owner and General Manager Founded: 2012 What it does: Providing tour and car rental service HQ: Bole Number of employees: 8 Startup capital: 2,000 birr Current capital: 3,000,000 birr Reason for starting business: Interest ...
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Listen to my side as well, Machar tells Kenyan MPs
After surviving 37 days on the run with South Sudan government soldiers shooting and detonating bombs at him, former vice president Riek Machar is appealing to Kenyan MPs not to condemn him unheard. Machar is in South Africa, from where he said in a telephone interview that the most important ...
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An emergency within an emergency - placing polio response in a broader response in Nigeria
Source: Global Polio Eradication Initiative Country: Cameroon, Chad, Niger, NigeriaIn the first instance, the emergencies team and polio team work together on a day-to-day basis as ‘one WHO’, citing collaboration as "the most effective way" to achieve polio-free Africa.The polio outbreak response in Nigeria and across the Lake Chad basin is ...
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Audit calls for reduction of MPs, MCAs
Kenyans are over-represented by exorbitantly paid lawmakers and should slash the number of elected leaders and reduce their allowances, an audit report on the Constitution says. The report presented to Parliament yesterday says Kenyans are spending far too much on their far too numerous MPs and MCAs in 47 counties. ...
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MK accuses officials of needlessly delaying Ethiopian immigration
Report: Foreign Ministry concerned Ethiopia will prevent further aliya.