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Ethiopia: Agricultural Transformation Boosting Productivity in Oromia State
Five years ago, the Oromia State Government established the Agricultural Transformation in Oromia (ATO), an office in charge of overseeing and executing the agricultural production and productivity interventions through employing scientific methods to resolve challenges in the agricultural sector.
East Africa: Ethiopia Revitalizing Manufacturing Sector Through the Let Ethiopia Produce Initiative
Ethiopia has become preferred destination in the manufacturing sector because of government facilitation of efficiency-enhancing investment solutions including industrial parks that are ready for 'plug and play, large pool of trainable work force available at competitive wages, cheapest energy rate on a global standard; geographic proximity and preferential access to key markets, abundance of high-quality industrial raw materials and others.
Ethiopia: State to Harvest 11.5 Million Quintals of Coffee
Oromia State Agriculture Bureau announced that it has planned to harvest 11.5 million quintals of coffee from 1.4 million hectares of land this fiscal year. Bureau Deputy Head Mohammedseni Amin, told the Ethiopian Press Agency (EPA) that the state has cultivated coffee on 2.8 million hectares of land of which the 1.4 million hectares is expected to yield product this fiscal year. He mentioned that the state also managed to reap some2.1 million quintals of coffee during the past four months.
Ethiopia to Generate U.S.$141 Million Exporting Meat
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia has planned to generate some 141 million USD from the export of move 38,000 tons of meat and meat products this Ethiopian fiscal year, Livestock Development Institute disclosed. The Institute Executive Director Asrat Tera(PhD) told the Ethiopian Press Agency(EPA) that the country is working hard to boost export earnings through increasing quality and volume of animal products as well as expanding market access.
Ethiopia: EOTC Patriarch Abune Merkorios Passes Away
-His holiness funeral to be held on March 13 at Holy Trinity Cathedral The 4th Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahdo Church (EOTC), His Holiness Abune Merkorios passed away yesterday having received medical treatments over the weeks. President Sahlework Zewde and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed have expressed condolences over the passing away of the 4th Patriarch of EOTC, His Holiness Abune Merkorios.
Ethiopia: Terrorist TPLF Inflicts Severe Water Sector Damage in Amhara
ADDIS ABABA--Amhara state water and Energy Bureau announced that terrorist TPLF has ruined various resources of the water sector amounting to over one billion Birr in the state alone in a bid to get ethnic Amhara chronically thirsty. Speaking at the event organized to discuss issues with stakeholders, Bureau Head, Mameru Ayalewu (Ph.D.) said that terrorist TPLF has been working day in and day out to hurt Amhara people employing its maximum potential.
Ethiopia: Admin. Says Working On Making Hawassa Tourism Hub
ADDIS ABABA - Hawassa City Administration announced that it has been working hard on making the city the center of tourism through creating appealing environments and adding values on the naturally blessed nature of the city. Having a stay with the Ethiopian Press Agency (EPA), City Mayor Assistant Professor Tsegaye Tuke stated that naturally Hawassa city encompasses very beautiful places to visit.
Ethiopia: Oromia Plants 2.2 Billion Seedlings
392 million seedlings planted in 12-hour In a bid to support the realization of the Green Legacy Initiative, over 2.2 billion seedlings have been planted in Oromia State during the current rainy season, according to the State's Forest and Wild life Enterprise Bureau. The Bureau Acting Head Ketema Abdisatold The Ethiopian Herald that planting of the seedlings manifests the state government's commitment to the success of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) national greenery campaign.
Ethiopia: António Guterres Applauds Premier's Commitment to Humanitarian Access
The United Nations (UN) Secretary-General António Guterres applauded the efforts of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (Ph.D) in creating access to humanitarians to support Tigray State of Ethiopia. The Secretary-General and Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) undertook phone conversation yesterday on humanitarian situation in the aforementioned state.
Ethiopia: Govt Creates Conducive Environments to Undertake Democratic Elections
ADDIS ABABA -The Ethiopian government has created a lot of enabling environments to undertake democratic elections, Attorney General Director Gedion Timotwos (Ph.D.) said . Presenting at the meeting hosted by the Ministry of Peace on Thursday , the attorney general said that the administration which leads by Abiy Ahmed (Ph.D) lifted a number of prohibiting legal frame works and substituted them with encouraging frame works to boost democratic land scape including in electoral procedures.
Ethiopia: City Administration Signs MOU to Construct 30,000 Houses
ADDIS ABABA- Addis Ababa city administrat signed memorandum of understanding with Wadi Al Sider Commercial Investment Liability Ltd company to construct 30, 000 cost-effective houses at 68.4hectares of lands in Akaki sub-city in the first round. As to the information obtained from the Press secretary office of the city administration Deputy Mayor of the city Adenech Abeibei signed the agreement with the company through the support of UAE government via video conference.
Ethiopia: Initiative to Launch the National Dialogue
ADDIS ABABA-- Multi stakeholder Initiative for National Dialogue (MIND) announced that it has finalized preparations to launch national dialogue aiming at restoring peace and state integration. As to its press, the initiative was established personalities drawn from different governmental and none governmental national organizations to undertake inclusive national dialogue.
Ethiopia: Interim Administration Expresses Commitment to Make a Difference
ADDIS ABBABA- Tigray Interim Administration announced that the administration is ready to work in collaboration with any cooperative organ so as to restore peace, carry out lifesaving activities and rehabilitate conflict victims in the state.
Ethiopia: Agency Says Diaspora Contribution to GERD Augmenting
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Diaspora residing in various countries of the globe donated over 136 million Birr for the construction of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) over the past nine months and 30 million Birr for the accomplishment of 'Dine for Ethiopia,' projects, announced Ethiopian Diaspora Agency.
Ethiopia: Church Calls for Coordinated Effort Against Covid-19
ADDIS ABABA - Catholic Church called on the developed countries to provide developing ones with support to distribute COVID-19 vaccine as coordinated effort matters the most. His Eminence Cardinal Berhaneyesus Surafel stated that the entire nation has to take all the possible precautions in order to prevent the pandemic and governments of developed are expected to work in collaboration with developing ones in due course of distributing the vaccine.
Ethiopia: Around 20 Percent Ethiopians to Receive Covid-19 Shot
. China applauds Ethiopia's solidarity in battling pandemic BY TAMERU REGASA ADDIS ABABA- Chinese donation of 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Ethiopia is instrumental in helping Ethiopia achieve its target of getting 20 percent of its citizens vaccinated at the end of 2021, the Ministry of Health said. Ambassador Zhao Zhiyuan praised Ethiopia for showcasing strong solidarity with China in the fight against COVID -19 pandemic.
Ethiopia: Nation Awards National Medal to Derartu Tulu
City Administration nominates Ayat Square 'Athlete Derartu Tulu square' BY TAMERU REGASA ADDIS ABABA- Addis Ababa city administration nominated Ayat square as "Athlete Derartu Tulu square," as the Athlete has contributed a lot in flying high Ethiopian flag in international athletics competitions and becoming Ethiopian ambassador in various world arenas .
Ethiopia: 36 Civic Organizations to Observe General Elections
ADDIS ABABA- The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) announced that 36 local civic organizations were selected out of 111 applicants to observe the upcoming sixth general elections. As to the information obtained from the board, the organizations were selected in line with Ethiopia's electoral policy and after the assessment of the implementation capacity of the organizations. Hence, over 134,000 members of the stated organizations will be tasked to observe the election.
Ethiopia: Nebe Names Media, Organizations to Election Debate
ADDIS ABABA- The National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) announced that it has identified three news media companies and eight organizations that will stage debate forums for contending political parties and candidates running for the forthcoming General Elections. The board announced that the 11 institutions were selected from 23 entities that have expressed desire to host election debates.
Ethiopia: Ministry Sets 53 Languages Script Pipeline
ADDIS ABABA- Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced that of the total languages functioning in the country the number of languages incorporated in to the writing system has reached 53. Awlachew Shumneka (Ph.D) Language, Literature and Translation Development Director with the ministry told The Ethiopian Herald that the ministry has been working to change all languages of the country in to writing system.
Ethiopia: Corporation Generates Over 1.5 Bln Birr Revenue
Ethiopian Construction Works Corporation announced that it generated over 1.5 billion birr from profit oriented projects over the last six months. Engineer Yonas Ayalew CEO of the corporation told The Ethiopian Herald that the corporation has abled to generate the stated amount of revenue through reforming itself focusing on four pillars such as profitability, time, quality, and human resource skill and working culture.
Ethiopia Categorically Rejects U.S.'s Statement About Tigray
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the U.S.'s statement released concerning the Tigray State has undermined the sovereignty of the country. The ministry stressed that as the government has been meticulously providing humanitarian support in collaboration with international and local agents, situation in the state has shown improvement.
Ethiopia: Demand for Life Insurance On the Rise
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Reinsurance S.C. said that the demand for life insurance service in the country has shown a steady uptick due to rapid urbanization and improvements in the livelihoods of the society.
Ethiopian to Serve Only Organic Meals for Passengers
Ethiopian Airlines announced that it has finalized its preparation to serve only organic food for passengers starting from February13, 2021. In a press conference yesterday , the airlines said the measure is helpful to promote indigenous Ethiopian farmers' products that Ethiopian Airline uses for on board services while providing all enhanced nutritional, healthy and sensorial quality meal for its passengers.
Ethiopia: Ministry to Establish Language Research Authority
Various efforts have been undertaken to establish the first language research authority to develop and administer the language resources in the country, the Ministry of Culture and Tourism announced. Presenting draft policy for the establishment of the Authority to stakeholders, the Ministry's Cultural Sector State Minister Bizunesh Meseret, said that Ethiopia is a country with long history and diversified languages and cultures.
Ethiopia: Ministry Collaborating With Somaliland to Control Desert Locust
ADDIS ABABA - Ministry of Agriculture announced that it has started working in collaboration with Somaliland in controlling desert locust. The Ministry disclosed that through the concerted efforts in the past few months it has managed to wipe out the desert locust swarm from all corners of the country except from Somali state. It further indicated that the main reason for failure to control the swarm in Somali State is due to the high influx of the swarm from Somaliland.
Ethiopia: Tigray Interim Cabinet Takes Office Today
Chief Executive of Tigray Provisional Administration, Mulu Nega (PhD) said that the newly-formed state cabinet is taking office as of today 13 December 2020. Briefing journalists on the current situations in Tigray State yesterday, the chief executive stated that close partnership has been formed with all concerned bodies to the re-opening of public offices and business enterprises in the area.
Ethiopia: Commission to Establish Environmental Tribunal
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission announced that it has been working to establish the first environmental tribunal that will hear cases relating to environmental issues so as to mitigate environmental degradation. Ayele Hegena (PhD) Director General of Policy, Law, and Standards Research and Development with the Commission told The Ethiopian Herald that the establishment of the tribunal will have immense role in providing emergency responses via entertaining flexible ways.
Ethiopia: Bureau Underlines Traditional Justice System Formal Enclosure
ADDIS ABABA - Oromia Supreme Court Bureau announced that it has planned to incorporate traditional justice system into the formal justice procedure to provide the state community with effective legal service. Bureau Communication Director, Gonfa Hatoma told The Ethiopian Herald that the Bureau, in collaboration with Oromia Justice Sector Professionals Training and Legal Research Institute has finalized a research done on the implementation of the plan.
Ethiopia: Commission Plans to Boost Forest Coverage to 30 Percent
ADDIS ABABA - Environment, Forest and Climate change Commission announced that it has planned to increase the country's forest coverage to 30 percent in 2030. As to the information obtained from commission's ten year plan document, it is committed to work hard targeting at achieving the plan via nurturing 40 billion seedlings across the country.
Ethiopia: Green Legacy Initiative Creates Over 300 Thousand Job Opportunities - Commission
ADDIS ABABA - Environment, Forest and Climate Change Commission revealed that in nation's Green Legacy initiative carried out throughout the country, over 300 thousand jobs were created for young people. Professor Fekadu Beyene Commission's Commissioner said that the initiative, apart from helping to restore degraded lands and conserve the environment, it has benefitted a wide range of unemployed citizens to generate their own income.
Ethiopia: Experts Congratulate Currency Alteration Timeliness
Economic experts have stated that the measure the Ethiopian Government has taken to alter the existing Birr note is a plausible hedge to the myriads of problems and helps the nation achieve the economic reform it has recently commenced. Zafu Eyesuswork Zafu, an economic expert, said that since there is a huge amount of money operating in the country out of the banking system, the measures are of significantly useful in addressing a range of challenges emanating from financial hurdles.
Ethiopia: Cabi Incorporates Ethiopia As Member
ADDIS ABABA - Center for Agriculture and Bioscience (CABI) accepted Ethiopia's membership to help it enjoy solving agriculture and environment problems through utilizing scientific approaches.
Ethiopia: Bureau Launches Operations to Revive Tourism Sector
ADDIS ABABA- Affar State Culture and Tourism Bureau announced that it has been working to revive tourism sector through building new tourism destinations and well enriching the existing destinations. Bureau Deputy Head, Ahmed Abdulkedir, told The Ethiopian Herald that as the state is the origin of human beings and blessed with admirable geographically attractive destinations, the bureau has been arduously working towards effectively tapping these resources in the state destinations.
Ethiopia: Authority Drafts Country's First Drone Policy
ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority announced that it drafted the first drone policy to ensure the safety and security of flight related operations. As the information obtained from the Authority, the policy is helpful to manage issues associated to the country's airline environment.
Ethiopia: Ministry Underlines Saving Culture Significance
The Ministry of Women, Children and Youth affairs stated that it has facilitated a credit of over 7.3 billion birr to enhance women economic empowerment over the past fiscal year (2019/2020). According to the information obtained from its report, the ministry facilitated the credit with a view to enabling 1.3 million women to save 700 million birr and get a credit to run activities.
Ethiopia: Enhancing Women's Entrepreneurship Capacity, Enhancing Economic Growth
Ethiopia's national development plan has underlined the critical importance of empowering women and ensuring equitable benefit as one of the pillar strategies for sustaining rapid and broad based growth path. To this end, the government has devised a number of projects and programs that can increase women's economic participation and enhance their overall benefits.
Ethiopia: 'Sera' - Halaba Justice Finding Instrument
Halaba People has its own traditional administrative system known as "Sera" which means law, principle, rule and regulation and in the community all cultural issues and living conditions are guided by this system. To promote this tradition, the people colorfully celebrate 'Sera' holiday every year in the month of January after farmers accomplished crop harvest.
Ethiopia: Monitoring Water Quality for Sustainable Water Management
By Tameru RegasaThe Awash Basin is the most utilized river basin in Ethiopia with a number of small, medium and large scale irrigation schemes; urban and rural water supply plans and industries located along the river. The Basin is a center for the development of industrial, agricultural and other economic activities. The relatively good infrastructures and its proximity for larger cities make Awash Basin River highly valuable for investment.
Ethiopia: Public Should Work to Sustain Reform - Experts
By Tameru RegasaEthiopians should stand as one and curtail the act of anti-ethiopianism forces to ensure unity in diversity, establish a just society, build peaceful and united Ethiopia, experts said. Students' Vice Dean with Arsi University School of Social Science and Humanities, Professor Gosa Setu said that synergy is a means to get along together with nations and nationalities and peoples living within the country and abroad, join hands and create one Ethiopian community.
Ethiopia: Scholars Suggest Modifying Ethiopian Rural Job Creation Policy
By Tameru RegasaScholars from Addis Ababa University recommended modification of rural job creation policies after examining the policies, and the case studies of six states. Professor Tegegne Gebre-Egziabher, Director of Institute of Development and Policy Research at Addis Ababa University, said that even though the government is undertaking a number of activities to reduce the rate of rural unemployment, there are a number of issues that need to be modified to achieve the goal of job creation.
Ethiopia: Chinese Investors to Establish Industry City
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA- Investors from China's Xiangang province expressed interest in establishing an industrial city with the cost of 10 billion USD. This comes after President Dr. Mulatu Teshome held a discussion with a 12 member Chinese business delegation on investment yesterday.
Ethiopia: ICT for Smart City
By Tameru RegasaHalf of the world's people already live in urban areas, and in the coming two decades the urban population is expected to grow to 6 billion. If properly managed, this urbanization trend (has been and) will be an opportunity, since urban areas have long been engines of economic growth and center of transformation. Cities are also known to be incubators of innovation that stimulate economic and social development.
Ethiopia: League Vows to Support PM Abiy's Reform
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA- Members of the Addis Ababa EPRDF Youth League expressed their commitment to support Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed's reforms to ensure togetherness and combat the destructive activities of anti-peace elements. League Chairman Tibebu Bekele told The Ethiopian Herald that the youth is ready to taking part in the ongoing efforts to bring about national consensus through reconciliation, forgiveness and peace.
Ethiopia: Ministry Signs Agreement to Protect Rights of Domestic Workers
By Tameru RegasaAddis Ababa - Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and its Saudi Arabian counterpart signed agreement to secure the right of both workers and employers. According to the agreement, the ministries will work towards a mutually acceptable recruitment system for Ethiopian domestic workers for employment in Saudi Arabia, pursuant to the applicable laws, rules and regulations of both countries.
Ethiopia: Youths to Participate in Summer Voluntary Program
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA - Addis Ababa City Administration said that one million youths would participate in summer voluntary program. City Administration Youth and Sport Bureau, Youth Mobilization Director Tizazu Aklilu said that culture of volunteerism and the number of volunteers are showing a marked increase in the city as a result of community mobilization. Volunteerism enables citizens to invest their knowledge, time and energy to assisting their society.
Ethiopia: Government Running to Transform SMEs
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA-- Government undertaking various activities to transform Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) into bigger manufacturing enterprises.
Ethiopia: House Lifts State of Emergency
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA- The House of Peoples' Representatives yesterday voted to lift the State of Emergency (SoE), two months earlier than planned, with overwhelming majority vote. On the occasion, Defense Minister Motuma Makasa said that the current SoE was declared to defend the Constitution, constitutional order, to restore peace and protect the security and movement of citizens.
Ethiopia: Federalism - the Best Option for Ethiopia
By Tameru RegasaEthiopia has experienced different systems of government in its long history. Almost all the previous regimes that ruled the country did not have the will to decentralize and devolve power. As a result, the home of more than 80 nations, nationalities and peoples was mismanaged by feudalism and military dictatorship. The diverse ethnic groups had not been treated equally for several centuries.
Ethiopia: Government Brings Pastoralists' Affair to the National Conversation
By Tameru RegasaADDIS ABABA- The government has benefited the pastoral community by bringing their agenda to the center stage, and into the national development plans, Minister of Federal Affairs and Pastoral Area Development said.
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