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AG Consult Water Technology Training Center, Ethiopia’s only privately-owned water technology training center inaugurated training facilities. The company announced the launching of its full-scale training facilities at an even held in Hilton Hotel, Addis Ababa in the presence of government officials and experts in the sector.

Kebede Gerba, State Minster of Water and Energy, who attended the event, told Capital that the training centre has a role to feed trained experts to the sector, in parallel with the government scheme. Add a comment Add a comment

A business delegation from the Chinese Foshan City visited Ethiopia. The delegation discussed with Ethiopian businesses, government officials and officials from the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association (ECCSA) at Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa.

Legesse Geremew, Councillor at the Ethiopian Consulate at Guangzhou,  said that the delegation came to Ethiopia after the consular office organized a tour to Foshan province last October.

The fourth round of the City's land lease auction held on July 24, 2013 attracted bids as high as 26,202 Ethiopian Birr for a square meter, Fortune reported.

The latest auction is the fourth round since the enactment of the revised lease holding of urban lands law in 2012. The Addis Ababa Land Bank and Transfer Agency announced a tender for auctioning of 95 plots on 40,000 meter of land on July 9, 2013. The plots were located in Akaki Kaliti, Bole, Yeka, Kirkos, Arada and Kolfe Keranio districts of the city. Add a comment Add a comment

dVentus Technologies, an Ethiopian clean energy company received a US$3 million from members of the Ethiopia Angel Network.

Ethiopian Angel Investment Network, part of RENEW, is an investment firm dealing mostly with potential business in developing countries announced signing of Memorandum of Understanding with dVentus last week.