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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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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
. 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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26 January 2015 Business News Round-Up
. Turkey to invest in Ethiopia’s hydropower . Turkish President visiting Ethiopia on January 22, 2015 at national palace of Ethiopia BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE The Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
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Can Ethiopia’s Resource Wealth Contribute to its Growth and Transformation?
. ADDIS ABABA, January 26, 2015 – Ethiopia has averaged a 10.7% economic growth rate over the last 10 years, more than double the annual average of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, which was around...
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30 January 2015 Ethiopian Economic News
. China firms building new 700km railway in Ethiopia . ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia expects to open a new railway line linking the capital Addis Ababa with the Red Sea state of Djibouti in early 2016, a...
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The Improved Seed Irony
. By FASIKA TADESSE FORTUNE STAFF WRITER Yaregal Hassabe, 56, a father of nine has been sowing maize, wheat and teff on his one hectare plot of farm in Western Amhara Regional State, in Merawi town...
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03 February 2015 Business News
. Fertilizer Blending to Begin in a Month at Four Plants Nationwide . Specific areas will get specific fertilizer mix based on their soil type . The Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and the Agricultural...
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05 February 2015 News Round-Up
. What If You Could IPO An African Country? These Are The Three To Bet On . VENTURES AFRICA – Record number of firms in Africa are lining up for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in 2015. Baker...
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09 February 2015 News Round-Up
. Ethiopia bets on grand projects in drive for industrial power . A labourer walks alog a Metro-line construction in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa . By Edmund Blair and Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA...
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11 February 2015 Business News
. Ethiopia’s Economic Growth Could Be Model for Other African Countries: WB Officials . Addis Ababa February 11, 2015 - The rapid economic growth Ethiopia has been registering could be a model for...
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Mining Indaba 2015 – Selected Articles from KPMG South Africa Blog
Listing in Africa – Extractive Industries . The African continent continues to be viewed as an emerging high growth market with an abundance of natural resources and market development potential. Many...
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The Banking Boom
. Year shows Growth and Apprehension for Private Banks in Ethiopia By BROOK ABDU FORTUNE STAFF WRITER The branches opened by private banks in the fiscal year were 1,205 growing from the previous year’s...
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Mining Indaba 2015 peppered with investment pessimism
. Despite recent excitement for opportunity in Africa, much-vaunted as mining’s new golden goose, investment and industry are slowing to a crawl. Jonathan Moore opened the indaba with references to the...
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13 February 2015 Economic News Round-Up
. Addis Ababa Airport to be extended, new hub planned . Addis Ababa: February 13, 2015 – Ethiopia will complete expansion work on the capital’s airport in 2018 to triple the number of passengers it...
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Ethiopia and Djibouti: towards a conjoined destiny
. Economic integration is defined by Investopedia – an authoritative financial dictionary – as an economic arrangement between different regions marked by the reduction or elimination of trade barriers...
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