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1st IPI / MoA / ATA Joint SSA Potash Use Symposium Announced For September...
IPI events The Role of Potassium in Cropping Systems of Sub-Saharan Africa: Current Status and Potential for Increasing Productivity 03-05 September 2014 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Background The...
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Opportunity for Ethiopian SMEs to tap into the global market
Essete Gebriel, country manager of DHL Express in Ethiopia Ethiopia, Africa’s second most populous country with an estimated 90m people, has thousands of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) but only...
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How Bill Gates Is Helping KFC Take Over Africa
The Gates Foundation and USAID are helping the Colonel’s African expansion, perhaps at the expense of local farmers. . By Alex Park There are currently more than 750 KFCs in sub-Saharan Africa. Almost...
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Ministry of Mines Installs New Head
Tolessa Shagi (pictured above), the former state minister for Mines, now takes the driving seat as a minister. - Some questioned why one of only four women with a ministerial portfolio had been...
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Djibouti Backs Down from Ultimatum on Cargo Clearance
Workneh Gebeyehu, (pictured above) Ethiopian authorities pledge to push businesses to live up to their promises The government of Djibouti has backed down from its earlier decision to change cargo...
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14 January 2014 News Round Up
New Water Services Institution Developed to Tackle Multi-Dimensional Tasks The new institution seeks to fix some of the current issues stunting major developments in the sector Hailemeskel Tefera,...
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Crop breeding and patenting threaten future planting
Written by Alice Ndita A group of civil societies and farmer related NGOs are raising alarm over continuing patenting of traditional crop varieties by big agribusiness firms and multinationals, that...
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Ethiopia to become one of the top travel destinations in Africa, claims Green...
Friday, 17 January 2014 12:40 Original article here: http://www.marcopolis.net/ethiopia-to-become-one-of-the-top-travel-destinations-in-africa-claims-green-land-tours-hotels-1701.htm Interview with...
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17 January 2014 News Briefs
. Authority signs road project contract agreements . The Ethiopian Road Authority (ERA) signed 6.5 billion birr three road project contract agreements with China Communications Construction Company...
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18 January 2014 News Round Up
. Land bill endorsed after record debate . The House of Peoples’ Representatives (HPR), on Thursday, finally endorsed the land bill, almost eight months after it was first presented to the House. The...
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Farm machinery and sustainable agriculture must evolve together
Machinery’s role in an environmentally sustainable future is one of the issues covered in the publication. - New book turns critical eye on the mechanization of the world’s fields 17 January 2014,...
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Economic development: The good news from Ethiopia, and what might make it...
Organisation: Department for International Development Delivered on: 12 December 2013 (Transcript of the speech, exactly as it was delivered) Page history: Published 10 January 2014 Policy:Helping...
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20 January 2014 News Briefs
. ‘Trade barriers hinder growth of African economies’ . The Director of the Ethiopia Investment Agency, Mr Aklilo Kedebe, has attributed the slow pace of the African economy to the trade barriers...
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Myths of Expediency
- The Ethiopian Shipping & Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE) has increased its freight carrying capacity at least threefold - By Girma Feyisa One way of improving the foreign exchange earnings...
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21 January 2014 News Briefs
. Made in Ethiopia: Fashion retailer H&M looks to sub-Saharan Africa for suppliers . BY Jaco Maritz | 21 January 2014 Sub-Saharan Africa’s potential to become a global low-end manufacturing...
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22 January 2014 News Round Up
. ERCA set to reduce income tax . The Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority (ERCA) is going to revise the current income tax proclamation by next year. Girma Taffese, director of inland taxes at...
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Gambella, Benshangul-Gumuz commune programme target met: Ministry
Over the last four years, each household had got three to five hectares of land for farming and irrigation. They as well could plough mainly in rain-fed area as much as they can “The image tainting...
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“No legacy is so rich as honesty,” William Shakespeare
. Ethiopian folk tales have assessed a number of aspects in relation to all rounded human life, behavior and interaction. The following tale narration is a case in point in this regard. “Once up on a...
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Move over quinoa, Ethiopia’s teff poised to be next big super grain
. Rich in calcium, iron and protein, gluten-free teff offers Ethiopia the promise of new and lucrative markets in the west . Claire Provost and Elissa Jobson in Addis Ababa Thursday 23 January 2014...
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23 January 2014 News Roll
. Israel Chemicals Said Near Accord With Allana on Potash . By David Wainer and Christopher Donville January 23, 2014 2:42 PM EST Israel Chemicals Ltd. (ICL), which harvests minerals from the...
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