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Ethiopian Airlines, the fastest growing and most profitable airline in Africa, is pleased to announce that it has finalized preparations to start four weekly flights to Vienna, Austria starting 2 June 2014.

Ethiopian Airlines, the largest network operator in Africa is pleased to announce that it has finalized all preparations to commence a passenger flight to Amman, Jordan as of September 19, 2022.

The thrice weekly flight will be operated as per the below schedule.

The National Tobacco Enterprise of Ethiopia is seeking financial sources to purchase machinery able to produce 20,000 pieces of cigarette per minute at an estimated cost of around 142 million Br.

The Enterprise purchased its second machine in 2003 since it started production in 1941. Together these two machines have the capacity of producing 7,000 cigarettes per minutes it was stated by to Ayele Alebel, public relations officer of the Enterprise.

The enterprise is not able to satisfy the market demand with this production capacity currently that it covers only 62 percent of the market He added. The annual demand is around 6.5 billion pieces of cigarettes in 2012, but the company is producing only 3.7 billion sticks according to Ayele.

Ethiopian Toll Road Enterprise said it had collected more than ETB 225 million revenue from Addis-Adama expressway, an expressway which was constructed with ETB 11 billion.

The Ethiopian Toll Roads Enterprise (ETRE) announced it has collected around $6.2 million (over 192 million Birr) over the last six months of this Ethiopian fiscal year.