Haile Hotels and Resorts Group is set to build its 11th resort in the town of Wolqite, in Ethiopia's southern region. Laying the foundation stone were renowned athlete Haile Gebreselassie, and Ristu Yirdaw, president of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' (SNNP) region.
Prime Minister Haile Marial Dessalegn presented the nine months government performance report on Thursday, April 24, 2014 to the Ethiopian Parliament. His report, he has stressed the manufacturing and export sectors should improve their performances.
Harari State has earned over nine million Ethiopian birr revenue from tourists who visited tourist attraction sites in the state during the first quarter of the current fiscal year, the State culture, tourism and heritages bureau said.
Tourism Director with the Bureau Yasmin Zekaria told Ethiopian News Agency on Saturday, over 17,150 foreign and local tourists has visited tourist attractions in the regional state. Some 3,143 of the visitors are foreigners from Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe.
Ethiopia's Ministry of Agriculture announced that harvest has been collected from 11.9 million hectares of land during the past two crop years, out of 12.9 million hectares that have been cultivated.
Hawassa City Administration is building new city hall at a cost of 265 million Ethiopian birr.
The city hall is the latest in a series of major projects launched by the city recently, including a 170 million birr road building program, announced in April.
