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Ghana
Ghana: GIPC Grants Tax Holiday to Agro-Processing Enterprises
[Business Day] The Ghana Investment Promotion Center (GIPC) has offered a five year tax holiday for new, wholly-owned Ghanaian agro-processing companies which use only local agricultural inputs as their raw material base.
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Ghana
Ghana: Investment Confab Underway in Tamale
[Business Day] The third edition of the annual Entrepreneurship and Investment Conference has opened in Tamale serving as a platform to promote and showcase the growth of business in northern Ghana.
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Etiopia
Change in World Bank Indicators, Little in Ethiopia’s Ranking
The World Bank released its 2016’s Ease of Doing Business Report on Wednesday, 28th October. This year, the index has reformed the way it rates countries. Of the ten indicators…
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Etiopia
Ethio-Life Insurance Nears NBE’s 75 million Br Requirement
Ethio-Life & General Insurance (ELIG) S.C. is edging closer to the 75 million Br capital requirement set by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) with two months remaining for the…
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Etiopia
Wheat Imports to Mitigate Drought Impacts
Ethiopia is breaking its own wheat import record with the latest invitation by the government to 11 companies to supply one million tonnes. The Federal Public Procurement & Property Disposal…
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Etiopia
Urbanisation Review Points to Problems in Land Management
A report of the World Bank Group and Cities Alliance on Urbanisation trashed Addis Abeba’s efforts towards urban development, housing and SMEs development, all central to the municipality’s activities. This…
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Etiopia
Taye Atskeselassie to be appointed as State Minister for Foreign Affairs
Taye Atskeselassie, director for the America’s Affairs, is to be appointed as one of the three state ministers for Foreign Affairs. The Director-General of American Affairs. He formerly served as Ethiopia’s Consul…
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Etiopia
Ethiopia to Join Africa Trade Insurance
Ethiopia is becoming a shareholder in the African Trade Insurance Agency (ATI) with a 7.5 million dollars loan from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for subscription fee. The loan, which…
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Etiopia
UAE Lifts Meat Ban Imposed Last Week
Ethiopia managed to get the ban on meat exports to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) lifted after a series of negotiations between the parties. The export gates re-opened on October…
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Etiopia
UAE Imposes Indefinite Ban on Ethiopian Meat Exports
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), Ethiopia’s largest meat export destination, has officially banned the commodity for an unlimited period of time as of October 1, 2015. The ban was imposed…