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Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), the largest coffee trade association in the world  has certified the Ethiopian based METAD/Kabu Coffee Quality Control Laboratory, the Ethiopian company announced yesterday. The laboratory is the first privately-owned African laboratory to be certified by the SCAA.

According to the company's press statement, sent to PANA, the Laboratory, equipped with the state-of-the-art coffee tasting technology, was certified on 17 May, 2013, after a team of SCAA experts, including Mr. Skip Finley, a Director on the SCAA Board, and Mr. Marty Curtis, a Coffee Quality Institute Instructor, inspected the laboratory same day.

Tuesday, 14 June 2011

Seacom Ltd., a company that operates a fibre-optic link in East Africa, said it was planning to extend the cable into Burundi, Southern Sudan and Somalia in cooperation with partners as demand for internet services continues to grow.

"We would like to expand our footprint," Julius Opio, the company's regional head, said. But he refused to give more details.

Opio said that the first country to be linked to the cable would be Brundi once it has installed 1,300 kilometres (810 miles) of fibre network next year. The cable would then be extended to Southern Sudan within a year of its independence, scheduled for July 9. Over the following two or three years, the cable will be extended to Somalia, he said.

The company currently has fibre-optic links in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya (where its east and north African office is based), Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, Opio said.

Source: Bloomberg

The second route of Addis Ababa Light Rail system, stretching from Hayat Square-Megenagna-Torhailoch is about to begin operation by the end of October.

The second Africa-China E-Commerce Forum is scheduled to be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in November this year, the Ministry of Innovation and Technology announced.

International logistics company, SEKO, has opened a local office in partnership with domestic company, Trade Path International.

The partnership with SEKO is a strategic one for Trade Path because the volume of trade the company used to get in offering logistic services to the flower sectors has decreased since Ethiopian Airlines took over the logistics of transporting flowers said Dawit Wubishet, Co-owner of the company.

Trade Path was able to secure the partnership with SEKO after a month long evaluation process which required the company to meet the standards established by SEKO said Dawit.