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Mobile Phones will be used to help health professionals collect data, have it analyzed and receive feedback in a show case project to be launched next week in Ethiopia. The project is led by Technology for Change International and is expected to cost approximately 370,000 US dollars.

The project will distribute a thousand mobile handsets to health professionals in the Amhara, Oromia Southern and Tigray regional states. The health professionals will use the handsets to gather data on pregnant women and send it on to a central server.

Modern electricity meter is manufactured in Ethiopia for the first time by Ethiopian Metal and Engineering Corporation.

Kadabba Salt Producers S.C. plans to construct modern salt, Iodization factory in Afar, Ethiopia, Capital reported.

The Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Enterprise is undertaking an expansion project on Mojo Dry Port at an estimated cost of 718 million Birr. The project, already launched was officially announced this week in Addis Ababa.

The expansion project includes plans to construct an international standard containers’ terminal on 8.6 hectares of land according to Getaneh Abate,  Modjo Branch Director.    The project is designed to have three phases that will help to upgrade the dry port service to a higher level he added.

Currently six projects of the first phase are well in progress, all of which are to be constructed by the Federal Water Works Construction Enterprise according to Getaneh.

Ethiopia's Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED) announced, Ethiopia economy grew 9.7 percent during the 2012/13 fiscal year, Capital reported.

According to the Ministry's press release, agriculture registered a 7.1 percent growth, while industry and service sectors registered a 18.5 and 9.9 percent growth respectively.