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Ethiopia plans to export 206 million dollars worth of leather products in the current fiscal year.

That is almost double the income the country received last year, when it made 104.1 million dollars from leather.

The Leather Industry Development Institute (LIDI) is going to make 54,000 pairs of shoes a day, up by 35,000 pairs than its current production.

Ethiopia achieved 73 percent of its target from the export of leather in the fiscal year to 8 July 2011, Wondu Legesse, director general of the institute, said.

Ethiopian Diaspora’s Day is to be celebrated in August 2015 for the first time in the history of the country under the theme “Diaspora our Renaissance partners”, Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed.

Ethiopian Power Engineering Industry (EPEI) said Ethiopia is to start manufacturing automobiles and military hardware.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Water and Energy said it is committed to finalizing more than 97 per cent of the construction work on the Rib dam this fiscal year. The government has allocated more than 270.3 million birr to complete the designated percent of the dam in the current financial year according to Bizuneh Tolch, Ministry Public Relations and Communication Director.

The construction work on the Rib Dam was launched in Ebinat and Farta woredas, Amhara State five years ago and is expected to require a total capital investment of 1.6 billion birr.

The ministry is focusing on finalizing the dam as per the scheduled time limit with more than 30.4 percent of the construction of the dam already completed so far he explained.

Ethiopia is to conduct the first national Inter-censal Population Survey announced the the Central Statistics Agency.

The Inter-censal survey is usually conducted between major population censuses explained Samia Zekaria, Director General of the CSA. Developing countries like Ethiopia, which carries out population and housing surveys every ten years, conduct inter-censal surveys in the middle to acquire population sample data to fill the information gap she said.