Ministry of Urban and Infrastructure (MoUI) revealed that approximately 142,500 km of roads have been constructed over the past 26 years. This was reported during the Ethiopian Roads Administration's (ERA) 7th annual road research conference, themed “Sustainable Road Infrastructure Development and Management through Research.”
Ethiopia is said to be top consumer Dangote’s cement from January to June 2017. Unaudited report of Dangote Group shows that the company sold 1.1 million metric tons in Ethiopia. Next on the list is Senegal with a consumption of 0.6 metric tons of cement.
The Ethiopian President, Mulatu Teshome, discussed with Rashad Al-Shawa, President of Mai Resources International (Switzerland) AG, on ways of exporting water from Ethiopia to Kuwait.
Ethiopia’s focus on improving ease of doing business continues under the economic reforms the country is going through. The move, the Prime Minister’s office states, is to help create a conducive environment for businesses to start up and to also have access to finance.
Ethiopia could possibly become a member of the World Trade Organization by 2014 depending on the outcome from discussion currently underway it was said.
The announcement was made during the visit to country made by Pascal Lamy, outgoing Director of the WTO. The Director General held talks with Dr. Tewdros, Adhanom, Ethiopian Foreign Minister in regards to the WTO accession process according to Nebiyu Tedla, from the office of the ministry spokesperson.
Ethiopia has been working to fulfill the requirements for membership for almost ten years and is currently in stage 4 of the process it was noted.
