Year: 2014
- Africa
Meta Abo Brewery to source all cereal raw materials in Ethiopia locally
Addis Abeba – Meta Abo Brewery S.C., a Diageo company, announced last week that it will source 100% of all cereal raw material needs in Ethiopia locally in time for Meta’s 50th Anniversary, by the end of 2017. This local sourcing strategy will serve as a commitment across the entire Meta business and will not be limited to specific products…
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Africa’s Statisticians to meet in Tunis on agriculture and Post-2015 Agenda
Addis Abeba – The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), in collaboration with the Africa Union Commission (AUC) and the African Development bank (AfDB) will organize the inaugural meeting of the Joint Session of the Committee of Director Generals of the National Statistics Offices (CoDG) and the Statistical Commission for Africa (StatCom-Africa), from 8-12 December, 2014, in Tunis, Tunisia. Themed, “Strengthening…
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Nigeria beyond Ebola
By Akwe Amosu and Muhammed Mustapha Lecky Abuja – When the World Health Organization declared that Nigeria had successfully eradicated the Ebola virus within its borders, there was loud global applause. Amid the cheers, however, few noticed a potentially even greater health milestone for Africa’s most populous country: the enactment of a new National Health Bill, which now awaits President…
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Trade experts in Addis Abeba discussing the launch of Continental Free Trade Area
Addis Abeba – A three-day meeting of experts opened on Monday this week at the African Union (AU) Headquarters in Addis Abeba in advance of the 9th Ordinary Session of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Trade to be held on 4-5 December. The experts are deliberating the implications of mega regional trade agreements and current investment trends in…
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Harnessing water to power Africa: Bigger solutions for bigger problems
Zerihun Abebe Yigzaw Looking at the earth during a night flight across the con¬tinent Africa tells all the grim story of a darker and invisible continent; face it, it is not as illuminated as many continents are on earth – mainly Europe, North America and parts of Asia. Save for the North-Eastern corner of Africa (Egypt) and the southern tip…
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The Coca-Cola Company, SABMiller and Coca-Cola SABCO to form Coca-Cola beverages Africa
• Bottling operations in 12 high-growth markets across Southern and East Africa with pro forma annual revenue of US$2.9bn and volume of 729 million unit cases (41 million hectolitres) • Largest Coca-Cola bottler in Africa and 10th largest worldwide with scale and resources to capture and accelerate the long-term growth potential in African markets • Shared vision, extensive experience of…
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What’s dragging Ethiopia’s democratic governance?
Semahagn Gashu Abebe (PhD) One of the most enduring features of the political system run by the ruling party in Ethiopia is the chronic problem of good governance. The rhetoric to achieve good governance in numerous variables has failed to match the reality on the ground. When the EPRDF regime took power in 1991, it adopted different legal…
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Will Ethiopia sort out its energy puzzle?
Ethiopia’s immense energy potential is the envy of many countries in Africa; but reality loses contact with the country’s ambition to become a regional power pool thanks largely to its endless, complicated and slow moving energy policies Kalkidan Yibeltal In mid-December 2013 a major reshuffle in policy saw the split in two independent entities – the Ethio¬pian Electric Power (EEP)…
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