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Ethiopian Airlines started talks with the Malawi Public Private Partnership (PPP) Commission with regard to the acquisition of 49 per cent of Air Malawi by Ethiopian Airlines. Ethiopian Airlines CEO , Tewolde Gebremariam, told The Reporter,  the Malawian Privatization Commission invited Ethiopian as a preferred bidder for the privatization of Air Malawi.

The African Import and Export Bank (African EXIM Bank) is planning to convene its annual general assembly in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in May.
The bank's general assembly meeting will be held as a sideline event of the Diamond Jubilee of the African Union which will take place in May 2013 in 
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The African Export Import Bank (the “Bank”) was established in Abuja, Nigeria, in October 1993 by African governments, African private and institutional 
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Access Real Estate S.C is liquidating parts of its real estate assets it acquired in different location the Addis Ababa to finance its ongoing projects.

Ermias Amelga, CEO of Access Real Estate told  Capital “In the last two years we bought over 30 assets in different areas of the city in view of developing them. However after we started our first projects that are about 11, we faced difficulties due to many reasons and we decided to sell the assets that we are not going to develop in the next coming years,” Ermias said in a phone interview from Dubai.

The Ethiopian Sugar Corporation announced the new sugar production plant at Wonji will start production in the coming month. According to Abay Tsehaye, Director General of Ethiopian Sugar Corporation, the 3 billion birr sugar production plant being constructed in Oromia Region is now almost completed 97 per cent of the work being already complete. Accordingly, the factory will begin trial production in the coming month.