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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Revenue said it has collected a revenue of over $4.755 billion (191.4 billion birr) during the first eight months of the 2020/21 fiscal year which started on July 8, 2020.

Ethiopian Airlines has partnered with the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) for the implementation of the African Union (AU) Trusted Travel Pass to make continental travel easier and safer amidst the COVID -19 pandemic, the carrier said in a statement sent to 2merkato.com. Africa CDC has mobilized a broad multi-stakeholder public-private partnership with the help of its strategic partners, the PanaBIOS Consortium and Econet, and with the objective of addressing current challenges posed by citizens' and institutions' difficulty in accessing accurate health information, high costs, and inconvenience in cross border travel, and poor data for health policy and biosecurity planning.

Sheger Bread Factory, Addis Ababa's paramount bread factory with a capacity of producing 1.5 million loaves of bread per day, or 80,000 loaves per hour, has started functioning at its full capacity today.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, along with his predecessor Hailemariam Dessalegn and other government officials, inaugurated the Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park in Ethiopia's Sidama region. "Sitting on 294.5 hectares, the industry park’s potential value chain includes fruits and vegetables, dairy, meat, poultry, coffee, cereal and pulses, using produce from local farmers as input," PM Abiy said in a tweet.

Ethiopian Airlines has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with African Airlines Association (AFRAA). Inking the MoU were Mesay Shiferaw, Managing Director of Ethiopian Aviation academy, and Abdérahmane Berthé, AFRAA's Secretary-General. The MoU is "on training that will facilitate a framework of collaboration between AFRAA and Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Academy to achieve common objectives on training of aviation professionals across the African continent," AFRAA disclosed in a press release.

The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank (AfDB) has approved a grant of $2.33 million to EthSwitch Share Company, an initiative led by the National Bank of Ethiopia, for the modernization of its payments infrastructure. The grant is resourced from the special fund of the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), a pan African initiative that aims to facilitate digital financial inclusion for an estimated 332M unbanked population across the African continent, 60% of whom are women.

Ethiopian Airlines, the multi-award-winning and largest airline in Africa, has announced that it has operated COVID-19 vaccine delivery flights from Mumbai to Addis Ababa and from Beijing to Brazzaville. In a press release sent to 2merkato.com, Ethiopian said it "continued to play its prominent role in the vaccine distribution and transported the vaccines from Beijing to Brazzaville via Addis Ababa on 10 March 2021."

The Ghanian pharmaceutical company mPharma has signed an agreement with Ethiopia's Belayab Pharmaceuticals PLC to launch Haltons Pharmacies. Haltons Pharmacies will operate as a franchisee of mPharma.

The Beles-Jawi electric power transmission line project in Ethiopia's Amhara region was inaugurated yesterday. The project is built at a cost of built with a cost of 387 million birr and sports nine power transmission lines. Inaugurating the project were Seleshi Bekele, Ethiopia's Minister of Water, Irrigation and Energy, and Agegnehu Teshager, Chief Administrator of the Amhara region.

Ethiopian Postal Service Enterprise said it has collected 230 million birr during the past six months. The amount has been collected from handling over four million total mail traffic through the Ethiopian Postal Service's handling of letter post, parcel post, and EMS services.