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Kuriftu Resort and Spa built the first water park in Ethiopia in Bishoftu, some 60 kilometres from the capital Addis Ababa. The water park was inaugurated today.

WBM Avocado Oil, Ethiopia's second avocado oil processing factory located at Yirgalem Integrated Agro-Industrial Park has gone operational. The factory is built at a cost of 104 million birr.

Ethiopia’s second toll road is now open for traffic. The new toll road, second to the one that connects Addis Ababa to the town of Adama, connects the city of Dire Dawa, the second largest city in the country after the capital Addis Ababa, to Dewale, a town near the Ethio-Djibouti border.

Delonex Energy Limited, a UK based oil and gas exploration company, is granted an exploration license by the Ethiopian Government to make exploration in the Abred-Ferfer area, Somali State.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Industry has made 10 plots of land available for eight domestic and international investors in the manufacturing sector who have requested land to build industrial zones.

These plots are a part of the 13 reclaimed by the Addis Ababa City Administration for failing to properly develop them.
The plots each cover 2, 800 meter squares and are found in the Akaki Kality and Mekanisa Lebu districts.

The companies granted the land are involved in the manufacture of garments, shoes, metal and agro processing sectors.