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Ethiopia’s Ministry of Education has issued contracts to print high school textbooks to Indian printers. The 5.9 million US dollar contract to reprint textbooks, including teachers’ guides, for five subjects went to Repro Printers and Pitambra Books.

Nineteen international printers had responded to the invitation put out by the Ministry of Education to reprint biology, civic, chemistry, ethics, mathematics and physics.

The bidding international printers passed a technical evaluation which assessed their capacity and ability to supply the books with the proper weight of paper and specified cover page.

The Ministry of Trade, Ethiopia awarded exporters of oilseeds, pulses, cereals and spices that registered better performance. The award was given by Kebede Chane, the Minister of Trade.

Ethiopia has secured 461 million US dollars from the sector in the past nine months said Kebede at the award ceremony.

Oilseeds, pulses, cereals and spices exporters need to work in a coordinated manner to enhance the income that the country can get from the sector he noted.

Energoinvest, the largest Bosnian engineering group said today that it had won a contract to build a 230 kV power transmission line in Ethiopia at a cost of 45 million dollars.

According to Energoinvest, the contract was awarded by the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPC). The contract will be officially signed between EEPC and Energoinvest in two wekks time. The company said that the project was scheduled to be completed within two years.

Ethiopia has awarded a new telecom license to a consortium of providers comprised of Safaricom (Kenya), Vodafone Group (UK), Vodacom Group (South Africa), CDC Group (UK), and Sumitomo Corporation (Japan). The consortium is dubbed Global Partnership for Ethiopia. This brings an end to a decades-long state monopoly of the telecommunications market.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance and Economic Development backed a 505 million US dollar loan extended to Djibouti by the Chinese Export-Import Bank. The ministry responded to a request for a guarantee for the loan to be used in the construction of Djibouti’s part of the railway connecting it to Ethiopia.

The bank has accepted the Ethiopian guarantee and approved the loan according to sources.