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Ethiopia achieves development target on reducing child mortality
A girl (pictured, above) outside her home in Gambella. Ethiopia has achieved the development goal on reducing child mortality. Photograph: Ariadne Van Zandbergen/Alamy Sustained government drive...
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The Manufacturing Sector: mature enough to compete internationally
By Bereket Gebru 09/12/13 The manufacturing sector in Ethiopia has expanded very noticeably during the past decade. The World Bank reported a growth rate of 12.3% in the sector as far back as the...
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Agriculture in Ethiopia: Opportunities, Incentives and Privileges
By Tesfalem Waldyes Ethiopia’s economy is predominantly agrarian. In 2011/12 alone, agriculture accounted for 41 percent of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and contributed 90 percent of the...
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Efficient Shipping, Logistics Need Competition: End Monopoly!
(Photo credit: Wikipedia) Last week saw the rather relaxed version of Ahmed Tussa, the chief executive officer (CEO) of the national amalgamated shipping and logistic enterprise – the Ethiopian...
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Animal Hides Go Cheap As Leather Industry Falters
On the early morning of Thursday, September 12, 2013, a day after the Ethiopian New Year, Besheir Meded slaughtered two sheep and a goat for three of his customers. After finishing his work, he went...
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Will Africa leave the World Bank behind?
The China- built new AU headquarters in Ethiopia (pictured above), perhaps the foretaste of a coming re-alignment in Africa over development pathways? By Nicholas Norbrook Governments across the...
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Djibouti expands its ports’ facilities to five
Launches investments worth USD 470 million By Muluken Yewondwossen Djibouti launched new port facility construction projects at Doraleh and on the southeast coast in the Arta district at a cost of...
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United States assist Ethiopia’s urban emergency response programme
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), signed a partnership agreement on November 13 to improve urban emergency preparedness and...
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Bill Gates wants Norway’s $800 billion fund to spend more in Africa, Asia
Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates (pictured, above) speaks at a breakfast meeting hosted by Civita, a liberal think tank, in Oslo November 15, 2013. By Balazs Koranyi OSLO - Fri Nov...
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Ethiopia is newest hub of African aspirations in space
After South Africa and Nigeria, Ethiopia is becoming a hub of Africa’s aspirations in space with the East African nation’s finalising the installation of two huge deep-space observatory telescopes...
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Dispatch from Addis Ababa
12 November 2013 By Michael Elliott ONE’s Board has just returned from Ethiopia, where we held our biannual meeting. I’d never been to Africa’s second-most populous nation before, and spent a...
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The World Bank’s promise
Having been assigned to head the World Bank’s country office in Addis Ababa, Guang Zhe Chen has spent two years frequently visiting sites where the Bank extends money for the projects of the...
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Critics sow the seeds of doubt in divisive agricultural policy
For Alemetu Deme, a farmer who shook hands with the Prime Minister, everything is possible, and she expects more than a hundred quintals per hectare from her wheat harvest. She has worked hard to...
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Tripartite Free Trade Area: An opportunity not a threat
The tripartite arrangement of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa, East African Community and Southern Africa Development Community (COMESA-EAC–SADC) is the most exciting trade and...
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Fertilizers Dysfunction: Nation Hopes on New Technology – Blended
Written by Yetneberk Tadele (links added by cambodine) For the last twelve years in a raw, Mustafa Siraj, 39, a father of three has used fertilizers on his three hectares of farming land in order to...
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18 November 2013 Business News Briefs
New Proclamation to Grant More Responsibility to Trade Practices Authority The proclamation, which will also see the authority renamed, has been supported by the United Nations Conference on Trade...
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PTA Bank Finds ‘Sweet Spot’ for Growth to Finance Regional Development – CEO
Admassu Tadesse 16 November 2013 PTA Bank, formally known as the Eastern and Southern African Trade and Development Bank, is a little known but significant player on the...
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How can African stock exchanges encourage more listings?
BY Kate Douglas | 19 November 2013 African stock markets have, in some ways, come a long way in the last five years. According to Nerina Visser, head of Beta and ETFs at Nedbank Capital, it was not...
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A step forward to properly manage biomass energy sources
Dung cakes (above, pictured) are the most widely used biomass energy in Ethiopia Although Ethiopia is endowed with a variety of alternative energy resources such as hydro, wind, geothermal, and solar,...
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Fertilizer Assessment: Increased Amounts Required in Ethiopia
Printed in IFDC Report Volume 38, No. 1 (2013) http://www.amitsa.org/CMSPages/GetFile.aspx?guid=32d915bc-8540-4b19-b8af-708e2be4a1f9 According to a recent IFDC assessment, Ethiopia must double its...
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