Economy & Business

Ethiopia offers longer tax holidays, more land for flower growers

(By: William Davison - Bloomberg) Ethiopia, Africa’s second-biggest flower grower, is offering expanded tax breaks and more land in a…

ECX chief Elleni Gebre-Medhin resigns

The Ethiopian Commodity Exchange (ECX) announced that Eleni Gebre-Medhin (PhD), founder and CEO will transition out of a leadership role…

Gibe III dam | Chinese investment welcome but more controls are needed

In southern Ethiopia, a giant wall of concrete is rising between the sides of a steep gorge. When complete, the…

Ethiopian assembled Smartphones to be released

Hong Kong-based mobile manufacturer Tecno Mobile’s Ethiopian counterpart is set to release its first smartphone completely assembled in Ethiopia. The…

HRW tells Ethiopia: No shortcut to dev’t; Suspend Gibe III & Sugar plantations

Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a 73-page report, titled “‘What Will Happen if Hunger Comes?’: Abuses against the Indigenous Peoples…

Sudanese experts confer on Ethiopia’s Renaissance dam in Khartoum

As reported previously, Sudan held a symposium titled “Ethiopia’s Millennium Dam and future of development in the Sudan”, last week.…

Gibe III dam| Lake Turkana: Set to dry? (Lion Lepalo Gideon)

[By: Lion Lepalo Gideon - Save Lake Turkana Campaign Project] The proposed building of Gibe 3 Dam by Ethiopia will…

Profile: Ethiopian Sugar Corporation’s Projects

[Compiled from Ethiopian Sugar Corporation website- inc. the maps]  Brief note on Ethiopian Sugar Industries Sugar Agro-industry development in Ethiopia…

Egyptian model farm in Ethiopia | The Egyptian Gazette

An Egyptian model farm is to be created in Ethiopia on an area of some 500 feddans (acres) with the…

Ethiopia: IMF forecasts 7% growth for 2012/13 [Press Statement]

IMF said, in a press statement last Thursday, that: "for 2011/12, [IMF] projects real GDP growth at 7 percent and…

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