10 March 2014 News Briefs
. Indian lines of credit help Ethiopia build sugar and power sectors . IANS | New Delhi March 10, 2014 Lines of Credit worth more than $1 billion extended by India to Ethiopia have helped...
View ArticleAllana Potash Special Meeting March 28/14 – Please register your votes and be...
. Allana Potash has scheduled a Special Meeting March 28 in Toronto in the hope of having shareholders approve the provisions and proposals forwarded in the following March 6 Management information...
View Article(Updated) 12 March 2014 Development News
. Reykjavik to Start Drilling on $2 Billion Ethiopia Power Project . By William Davison Reykjavik Geothermal, the Icelandic power-plant builder, plans to begin drilling in Ethiopia by July as part of a...
View ArticleTreading a new path: Chinese companies eye booming Ethiopia
. Chinese labour is cheap, sure – but Ethiopian labour is even cheaper. As margins get tighter at home, Chinese companies are looking further afield, and many are settling on Ethiopia as an attractive...
View ArticleKenyatta’s Ethiopian visit – highlights through 12 March 2014
. Business dominates Kenyatta’s Ethiopia visit . Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says his country and Ethiopia have signed an agreement to ‘purchase power from Ethiopia and drive our economic...
View Article13 March 2014 News Briefs
. Tesco emphasises ethics as plans to buy clothes from Ethiopia . (Reuters) – Tesco, the world’s third-largest retailer, expects to source more clothes from Ethiopia, but wants the nascent industry...
View ArticleANALYSIS-Eyeing Brazil and Africa, potash juniors defy industry slowdown
. Published: Thursday, 13 Mar 2014 | 4:17 PM ET By: Rod Nickel . WINNIPEG, Manitoba, March 13 (Reuters) – Two junior potash producers working in unusual locations look set to shake off the most...
View ArticleForget the BRICs; Meet the PINEs
. While many emerging markets are taking a beating, a fantastic growth story in the developing world is widening and drawing in new countries . Michael Schuman / TIME Magazine - March 13, 2014...
View ArticleNGO Law Should Block Ethiopia From Mining Initiative: HRW
. By William Davison Mar 14, 2014 / Bloomberg . Ethiopia should be denied admission to a global initiative to improve the governance of natural resources because of the country’s limits on freedom of...
View Article15 March 2014 News Round Up
. Ethiopia says flagship Grand Renaissance dam ’30pc complete’ . By ANDUALEM SISAY in Addis Ababa | Thursday, March 13 2014 . Zadig Abrha, deputy general director at the Office of National Council...
View ArticleILRI in retrospect – Alexandra Jorge reflects on her work with ILRI in this...
. Alexandra Jorge and Jean Hanson (pictured, left to right above) at the Livestock and Fish Ethiopia value chain sharefair . Posted on 12 Mar 2014 by Ewen Le Borgne . What was your position at ILRI and...
View Article17 March 2014 News Briefs
. New Agreement Sews Thread Between Smallholder Farmers, Textile Industry . The deal, which is likely to be repeated elsewhere, seeks to shorten the supply chain by removing middlemen . From left to...
View ArticleChanging the lives of farmers via changing the degraded terrain
. Area-closure and other soil conservation methods are playing a role in the recovery of various terrain in the state . Written by Abraham Dereje Ethiopia, like other sub-Saharan African (SSA)...
View ArticleFrom little or no penny to be a millionaire
. Written by GIRMACHEW GASHAW Nowadays, Ethiopian towns are registering dramatic change in infrastructural development. Besides, improving various towns images, it is possible to create many more job...
View ArticleEthiopia’s application for ‘candidature’ approved
. Wednesday, 19 March 2014 – 10:40am . The EITI Board: ensuring civil society engagement will be critical. The international EITI Board accepted Ethiopia’s application for EITI candidature when it met...
View ArticleTransforming the mining sector in Ethiopia
. By Wondaferash Alemu Tigrai Onlne – March 19, 2014 It has been said time and again that Ethiopia’s natural resources are barely utilized, even though nature endowed her with a large number of mineral...
View Article(Updated) 21 March 2014 News Briefs
. Israeli Company, Canadian Corporation Sign Potash Mining Accord . The accord would help Ethiopia to introduce new fertilizer to farmers and considerably increase productivity The Israeli Chemicals...
View Article22 March 2014 Development News Briefs
, Israeli Strategy to make Ethiopia a Leading Nation in Exporting Fertilizer . . Djibouti (HAN) March 22, 2014 The Israeli Chemicals Limited (ICL) Africa and Allana Potash signed partnership agreement...
View ArticleIsraeli Company Pumps 25 Million Dollars Into Afar Potash Project
(pictured, above) Nissim Adar, middle, ICL’s general manager, who signed the agreement with Nejib Abba Biya, left, senior vice president of Allana, expressed hope that the markets will drive...
View ArticleEthiopia: World Bank approves funds for clean water supplies .
. The World Bank has approved a $205 million International Development Association (IDA) credit to help the government of Ethiopia increase access to clean drinking water and improve sanitation...
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