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Ethiopian Potash Corp. announced that it had completed nine holes, and was currently drilling the tenth hole of its ongoing exploration program.

The company said that all of the holes had intersected the regional Danakil potash formation, and all holes intersected potash mineralization.

The holes were drilled along the western edge of the Danakil and targeted the on-strike continuation of the Musley potash deposit about 10 km south of the company's SW discovery area.

Ethiopian Potash Corp. was listed on the OTCQX and that it had begun trading on the OTC market's highest tier, OTCQX under the symbol "ETPHF", David Wahl, President and CEO, announced yesterday.

Soloway Group LLP will assist as Ethiopian Potash Corp's Principal American Liaison on OTCQX, responsible for providing guidance on OTCQX requirements.

The OTCQX marketplace is the premier tier of the U.S. Over-the-Counter market. Investor-focused companies use the quality controlled OTCQX listing platform to offer investors transparent trading, superior information, and easy access through their regulated U.S. broker-dealers. The innovative OTCQX platform offers companies and their shareholders a level of marketplace services formerly available only on a U.S. exchange.

Ethiopian Potash Corp. is a Canadian company based in Toronto, Ontario and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The company has acquired a 481 sq km potash asset, in the Danakil depression of northern Ethiopia.

It is to be recalled that George Roach, board chairman of Ethiopian Potash Corp, had announced in the last week of May 2011 that the company's drilling rigs were in the process of being commissioned and were expected to start operation early in June.

The Danakil Depression has one of the largest undeveloped potash resources in the world. The fact that it lays almost on the surface of the ground as opposed to those in Saskatchewan, which are found deeper than one kilometre in the earth, testifies to its significance. Ethiopian Potash Corp has two neighbouring development concessions covering 481 sq km in the centre of the Danakil Depression.

Source: Marketwire

The 4th Ethiopian Poultry Expo and Animal Tech Show was opened yesterday. It is expected that the Expo will play a role in promoting Ethiopia’s livestock resources to the international market according to Gidey Gebre-Medhin Director General of the Ethiopian Meat and Diary Technology Institute.

The Expo will provide all necessary information to investors interested in the sector explained Gidey.

The power generation capacity of Ethiopia has reached 2,140 MW according to the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation. It is to be remembered that the power generated in the country was just 370 MW two decades ago.

The national electricity coverage has grown to 47% from only 8% in the early nineties said Miheret Debebe, Chief Executive Officer with the EEPCo.

The per capital energy consumption twenty years ago was below 20KW at the household level but has grown to 100KW now he said.

The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation announced that that first tender to outsource its utility management to an international company failed, last week. The sole utility company in Ethiopia, EEPCo, is considering further options.

The tender was put out as part of the power corporations aim to transform its utility operations, including distribution, transmission and power generation.