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Ethiopian Airlines awards design consultancy contract for Ethiopia’s new global hub airport, to a consortium led by Dar and Zaha Hadid Architects.
Ethiopian Airlines Group has announced plans to build Africa’s largest airport in Abusera – a critical element of Ethiopian’s 15-year strategic plan to become one of the most competitive aviation groups in the world. The airport’s location allows for progressive growth, empowering the airline to meet the International Air Transport Association’s forecasts of more than 200% growth over the next…
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UN appeals for support as millions face food insecurity in E. Africa
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has called for urgent support from the international donor community as millions suffer from acute food insecurity in East Africa. In a statement, the WFP said that as of the last quarter of 2023, some 59 million people, or about 20 percent of the total population in East Africa, were suffering from acute…
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Africa needs innovative instruments for economic growth, say stakeholders
Government and institutional representatives have called for innovative instruments that would foster climate action and address the African current debt crisis for the continent to benefit from the transition to sustainable green economies. In a statement by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the participants made the call during a ministerial segment at the ongoing 56th session of the Conference…
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Roha Medical Campus, a World-Class Hospital in Ethiopia, Gets $42 Million First Injection
Initial equity is part of $130 million first-phase investment in Roha Medical Campus Ethiopia on $5 billion African medical tourism map with one of most significant healthcare developments Africa’s second-largest nation has acute need for hospital capacity, with only 6% of beds required: WHO In a milestone for one of Africa’s biggest healthcare developments, Roha Medical Campus (RMC) announces it…
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Africa
Solynta and PepsiCo Partner to Bring Hybrid Potato Seeds to Ethiopian Farmers
WAGENINGEN, Netherlands — Solynta and PepsiCo’s Ethiopia-based Foods Unit, Senselet Food Processing PLC (Senselet), have launched a project to introduce hybrid true potato seeds (HTPS) to Ethiopia. Hybrid breeding is the focused breeding of desirable traits like pest resistance and hardiness – improving food security and ensuring more sustainable income for farmers. Ethiopian researchers and farmers will test the seeds,…
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Cerba Lancet Africa Signs Strategic Partnership With International Clinical Laboratories in Ethiopia
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa & ADDIS-ABABA, Ethiopia — Cerba Lancet Africa, a benchmark in the field of medical diagnosis in Africa, today announced it has signed a strategic partnership with International Clinical Laboratories (ICL) Ethiopia, the leading private clinical pathology laboratory in the country serving more than 3 million patients over the past 17 years. Cerba Lancet Africa is majority owned…
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Africa
Oromia Bank selects CR2’s BankWorld to Advance their Digital Banking Transformation Strategy in Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Oromia Bank (www.oromiabank.com) has selected CR2 (www.CR2.com), one of the world’s leading software vendors in the digital banking and payments market, to accelerate and transform its digital banking strategy in the Ethiopian market. The official contract signing ceremony took place in The Sheraton Addis, with key company executives present to witness this landmark occasion. CR2’s digital…
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UN rights forum to hold session on Ethiopia at EU request
The United Nations Human Rights Council will hold a special session on Friday on the “grave” situation in Ethiopia, at the request of the European Union (EU), a UN statement said on Monday. The request was supported by the required one-third of the forum’s 47 member states as well as by observers including the United States, it said. A draft…
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Sudan denies Ethiopian accusations of supporting rebel forces
Sudan has denied Ethiopian accusations of supporting the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) which is fighting the Ethiopian army. “Sudan controls all of its internationally recognized territories and borders with neighboring Ethiopia, and has never, and will never, allow its use for any aggressions,’’ said Sudan’s foreign ministry in a statement, late Sunday. The ministry made the statement in response…
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Africa
Africa COVID-19 Index shows the 10 most vulnerable regions
Africa COVID-19 Community Vulnerability Index shows the 10 most vulnerable regions in Africa are found in six countries: Democratic Republic of Congo, Malawi, Ethiopia, Uganda, Cameroon, and Madagascar A new index designed to fill a critical information gap and help African governments, health officials, non-governmental organizations, and others respond to the coronavirus pandemic finds that although Africa has not yet…
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Africa
81 killed in protest over singer’s death in Ethiopia
At least 81 people were killed in Ethiopia after a popular singer’s death sparked violent protests in the country’s Oromia region, a police chief said late Wednesday. Those killed included protesters and police officers, Ararsa Merdasa, the Oromia Police Chief, said in a televised press briefing. Hachalu Hundessa, a singer who focused on the rights of the country’s Oromo ethnic…
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Africa
Nile Dam: Egypt, Ethiopia, Sudan reach out to AU
Leaders of Sudan, Ethiopia and Egypt said they were hopeful that the African Union could help them broker a deal to end a decade-long dispute over water supplies within two or three weeks. Ethiopia, which is building the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) which worries its downstream neighbours Egypt and Sudan, said it would fill the reservoir in a few…
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Wives of slain Ethiopian soldiers still cries out for justice
The wife of the late Ethiopian army chief, who was shot dead a year ago today, has said she has failed in her efforts to meet Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in order to be updated on the state of the investigation into her husband’s killing that shocked the country. “I was told it was not possible,” Col Tsege Alemayehu told…
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Africa
Ethiopian soldier kills man over ringing phone
An Ethiopian soldier shot a man dead in front of several people after his phone rang during a public meeting, Amnesty International says. It is one of many incidents the rights watchdog recorded from a security crackdown in Oromia regional state at the end of 2018 and 2019. This was the year that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel…
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Africa
African Central Bank Governors to Hold Second Caucus in Addis Ababa
The Economic Commission for Africa and the African Union Commission will host the second Caucus of African Central Bank Governors, in Addis Ababa in the margins of the eighth Joint Annual Meetings of the AU Specialized Technical Committee on Finance, Monetary Affairs, Economic Planning and Integration and the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development. The…
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Africa
AFRICA: Finance to dominate agenda at this year’s Conference of Ministers
Against a backdrop of intense negotiations leading up to the MDGs, and within the greater context of Agenda 2063, the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Union Commission (AUC) will hold one of its most important Conference of Ministers at the end of March. Over 1,000 participants are expected, including some 50 ministers of Finance, Planning and Development,…
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Africa
90 yr old Mugabe falls at Harare airport
Zimbabwe’s 90-year-old President Robert Mugabe fell down a staircase on Wednesday as he walked off a podium after addressing supporters at Harare international airport, an AFP correspondent said. He had just returned from Ethiopia where he took over the rotating chairmanship of the African Union. Africa’s oldest leader, who turns 91 later this month, had concluded his homecoming speech when…
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