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05 December 2014 News Round-Up
. Ethiopia eyes record coffee exports . By Aaron Maasho in Addis Ababa . The head of Ethiopia’s exporters association says the East African country expects coffee exports for its 2014/15 crop to hit a...
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09 December 2014 Business News (UPDATED)
. Intra-COMESA Trade now at US $20.9 billion . Intra-regional trade in COMESA has steadily risen from US $3 billion to US $20.9 billion since the establishment of a Free Trade Area in 2000. This...
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Crop Loss Tackling Under Whelms
Dereje Digaffe (above, pictured) was winnowing the raw wheat to separate the grain from the chaff, winnowing is part of crop processing during the port harvest season, and it is locally called...
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Financing Africa’s massive projects
. Innovative bankrolling gains popularity and raises high hopes among key countries . By: Kingsley Ighobor and Busani Bafana . An artist’s impression of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. . It is...
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19 December 2014 News round-Up
. Investment: Made in Ethiopia . By Jacey Fortin in Addis Ababa Almeda Textiles benefits from low overhead costs, but is limited by challenging logistics. . Low costs attract investors, but there are...
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23 December 2014 Business News Briefs
. Voucher to Replace Cash Credit for Farmers . Voucher, a system tested in a pliot project since 2012, is replacing cash-credit to farmers in some woredas . Left to right TeshomeWalle (PhD), head of...
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29 December 2014 News Items
. Defunct Fertilizer to Re-emerge in a Policy Reversal . Draft policy will introduce new fertilizer use in the country . Tekalign Mamo (Prof.) state minister and advisor to the minister and Selechi...
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02 January 2015 News Round-Up
. Official: Ethiopia dam project could start power generation by June . A much-delayed $1.8 billion dam project under construction along Ethiopia’s Omo river could begin generating power by June and be...
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07 January 2015 Ethiopia Business Briefs
. Agency Importing Over 8.6 Billion Birr Worth Agricultural Inputs . Addis Ababa: January 7, 2015 (FBC) - The Ethiopian Agricultural Development Supplier Agency disclosed that it is importing over...
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Costly fertiliser holds back a green revolution in Africa
. Sub-Saharan farmers are being denied high yields because they cannot afford the chemical means to replenish nutrient-depleted soil Soil isn’t sexy – but it could explain hunger in Africa The...
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Sub-Saharan Africa Manufacturing: Where To Build A Factory?
Originally posted on EMerging Equity: By Kurt Davis Jr. Amidst a continent experiencing unprecedented levels of economic growth, a growing middle class, more stable political conditions, and favorable...
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12 January 2015 News Round-Up
. ICL Announces Potash Program for Ethiopia . ICL, a global manufacturer of products based on minerals in the agriculture, processed food and engineered materials markets, announced that it launched a...
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18 January 2015 News Round-Up
. China’s Poly Technologies to produce potash in Ethiopia . The Chinese Poly Technologies, already engaged in natural gas and petroleum exploration projects in Ethiopia, announced its desire to...
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19 January 2015 Business News Briefs (UPDATED)
. Ethiopian diaspora, back home to boost economy . A crane stands at a construction site in a neighbourhood undergoing a facelift in Addis Ababa on June 19, 2013. Ethiopia’s burgeoning diaspora...
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Nation falls short of MDGs
. Millennium Goals – A Journey of Partial Success for Ethiopia Helen Wolde, an eight months pregnant woman while holding a session with her nurse on antenatal care at Kirkos Sub-city Health Office...
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Farm Africa’s goats and bees help rural Ethiopians forge new livelihoods
Villagers discuss the impact of Farm Africa’s goat-rearing, beekeeping and irrigation programmes a year on from the 2013 Guardian Christmas appeal donations to the Tigray Food Security project James...
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Premium Value for Wild Coffee
. Hussein Abdullah, the chairman of the Meti WaBub stands in front of the crowd explaining how his WaBuB came into reality and the system of ensuring the protection of the forest In the evergreen area...
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Photovoltaics ….“I see a huge potential”
. A mobile solar wagon, developed by students of Arba Minch University . Electric-power supply must improve in most developing countries, including Ethiopia. Typically, national grids do not cover...
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23 January 2015 News Briefs (UPDATED)
Turkey ready to support Africa on all platforms . By SERDAR KARAGÖZ ADDIS ABABA - . Speaking at the Turkey-Ethiopia Business Forum, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said that Turkey is trying to build...
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Fertilizer Factory Construction Resumes after 10 Months
Yayu Fertilizer Factory (as conceived above) lies on 54,000sqm and will be a multi complex factory consisting two Urea manufacturing plants, one DAP manufacturing plant, a coal mining and chemical...
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