The week of May 26 - June 2, 2020
Macroeconomic News
Sector News—Industry, Agriculture, Services
- Ethiopia secures $122 million from industry parks.
- Hawassa Industrial Park gears up to export masks, bio suits.
- ICRC supports local manufacture of face shields in Ethiopia.
- Private Sector Led Oil Agro-industrial Cluster Emerging in Gojjam.
- Gov’t Taking Measures to Curb COVID-19 Impacts on Manufacturers.
- Ministries Agree to Develop, Increase Profitability of Mining Sector.
- Nation’s Nine-Month Fuel Expense Surpasses $2bln.
- Oil Companies Racked with Pain from Container Pilferage.
- Ministry Writes Construction Protocol.
- Enterprises to distributed cement exclusively.
- Top Water Seals 20-year Saudi Arabian Deal.
- Public Raises over 600 Mn Birr for Renaissance Dam in Less than Year.
- Ethiopia starts cutting bushes to fill water Nile dam.
- Gemcorp to supply NDRMC with 200k mt of wheat.
- South Korea To Provide 16,000 Tons Of Rice To Ethiopia.
- Ethiopia advises Dutch investors to diversify investments.
- Opportunities to boost sesame production in Ethiopia.
- Urban agriculture in Addis Ababa to ease COVID-19 impact.
- Authority to Plant 40 Million Tree Seedlings in Nile Basin.
- Ethiopia seeks extension in waiver to export red beans.
- የኦሮሚያ መንግሥት ወረርሽኙ በግብርናው ዘርፍ የሚያሳድረውን ተጽዕኖ ለመቋቋም እየሠራ ነው (Oromia regional state working to withstand the impact of corona on the agriculture sector).
- Privatization wheels turning.
- Let the competition begin!
- Ethiopia unlocks one of the world’s last closed telecoms markets.
- Ethiopia Among 7 Major Tourist Destination Countries in Post-COVID-19: Forbes.
- የኢትዮጵያ የሆቴልና ቱሪዝም ዘርፍ 98 በመቶ ኪሳራ ውስጥ መግባቱ ተገለጸ (98 percent of Ethiopia’s Hotels and Tourism Sector said to be facing losses).
- Accelerated Shift to Cargo Saved Ethiopian, Says CEO.
- Ethiopian Airlines CEO: “We want to become Alibaba’s official company in Africa”.
- Ethiopian Welcomes Qatar Airways’ Competition for Africa Market.
- RENEW’s IAN make follow-on investment in Ethiopia’s #1 online food delivery company.
- Ethiopia embraces digital higher education.
- Nation Launches Mobile Applications to Control COVID-19.
- Analysis: Ethiopia’s response to COVID-19.
- Ethiopia to benefit from Canada’s USD 159 mln global COVID-19 fund.
- Commentary: Ethiopia is beating COVID-19 – with few ventilators and no lockdowns.
- Tour operators get a sweet deal from gov’t.
- Finland extends CoWASH III project in Ethiopia to support COVID-19 emergency response.
- Agency introduces QR codes for document authentication.
- Making the New York Convention a reality for Ethiopia.
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