The Government’s Planting for Export and Rural Development (PERD) programme has established about 46,000 hectares of cashew plantation in the Bono Region since 2018.The programme had supplied thousands of cashew farmers with free improved seedlings an…
Farmers and other agriculture value chain players, including agric extension and crop services directorate officers, have called on the government to modify the Planting for Food and Jobs (PFJ) programme, a study has shown. The Study, which assessed t…
The World Bank (WB) will continue its partnership with Ethiopia and appreciates the effort to transform the country from agriculture to industrialization, Bank Financial Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice Manager said.In an exclusive interv…
The three-day Ethio-International Trade Fair held in Addis Ababa has created up to 30 million USD worth of market linkage, the coordinator said.The Ethio-International 2023 Trade Fair aimed at creating market linkages for local producers took place fro…
The Chinese footwear Huajian Group has planned to expand its investment in Ethiopia and envision to make the country a major manufacturing hub in the eastern Africa, Founder and Chairman of Huajian Group, HuaRong Zhang said.In an exclusive interview wi…
Ethiopia has registered 6.2 percent average growth during the last three years, Planning and Development Minister Fitsum Assefa disclosed.Evaluation of the government’s nine months performance was conducted in the presence of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed….
On May 17, 2023, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) completed the fifth review of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) arrangement for Somalia. The completion of the review enables the immediate disbursement of SDR 7 million (a…
Consul General of Ethiopia in Bahrain, Ambassador Shiferaw Geneti met with the CEO of Labour Market Regulatory Authority (LMRA), Nouf Abdulrahman Jamsheer.The two sides have exchanged views about protection of the rights of Ethiopians in Bahrain.Ambass…
Effective work has been carried out in human resources and skills development reform based on the economic need of Ethiopia, Labor and Skills Minister Muferihat Kamil said.Evaluation of the performance report of the third quarter of this Ethiopian Fisc…
One billion people in 43 countries are at risk of cholera – a ‘pandemic killing the poor’ – despite prevention and treatment being relatively straightforward, the United Nations warned on Friday.The most heavily affected countries so far this year are…
Colombians were on edge Friday as authorities searched for four Indigenous children who were on a small plane that crashed in the Amazon jungle this month but have not been found. The three adults aboard died.The crash happened in the early hours of M…
Somalia is set to unveil the first National Identification card to the citizens, since the collapse of the central government more than three decades ago, according to the National Identification and Registration Authorities NIRA.In an interview poste…