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Ethiopia assigned Kifle Horo (Engineer) as the new project manager of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). After the death of Simegnew Bekelle (Engineer), Ephrem Weldekidan (Engineer) led the project as a manager. Now, he is appointed to serve as a deputy project manager together with Fikadu Kebede.

Before joining the project of GERD, Kifle had served at Ethiopian Electric Power as power sector consultant and advisor for project management.

African Statisticians are in Addis Ababa for the sixth statistical commission for Africa (statcom-Africa-VI). The four-day long symposium, which was started on Monday, is being attended by Statistics bureau heads, representatives of national mapping agencies, NGOs and research institutes.

Oliver Chinganya, Africa Center for Statistics (ACS) Director at ECA, said the symposium was very critical for African statisticians and the whole continent and noted that reliable statistical data was very critical for policy decisions. He said, “The discussion with group of people that produce data which is used for policy decisions in their country is very critical.”

MTN, a South Africa-based multinational mobile telecommunications company, said it was interested to enter into Ethiopian market following the government’s plan to privatize public enterprises. MTN stated its intention during a meeting held between Heads of MTN and President Mulatu Teshome who received the delegation yesterday, October 3. 

Ahmed Abitew replaced Yinager Dessie (PhD), who was recently assigned to be governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia, as Board chairman of the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia. When Dr. Yinager was appointed governor of the National Bank last June by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD), he was automatically discharged from his chairmanship at the bank.