Ethiopia will be hosting the International Coffee Organization’s (ICO) 4th World Coffee Conference on March 6-8, 2016 and 116th International Coffee Council meeting on March 9-11, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported.
Ethiopia plans to seek more than USD 2.4 billion in new investment commitments during the Fourth “Invest in Ethiopia 2026” Forum, scheduled for March 26 - 27, 2026, in Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia is to implement a unified billing system for water, telephone, and electricity as of the coming January.
The new unified billing system is to be automated. The system was designed by Global Communication Solutions, an Ethiopian IT company, and NCR and AT&T, its partners from US. The project was undertaken by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology in an agreement signed with the companies.
The implementation of the project starts from the coming month and aims at modernizing the bill collection system of Ethiopia. The three governments offices that collect bills separately, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation , Ethio-Telecom, and Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority have completed the installation and testing of the new system.
The Ethiopian Petroleum Enterprise (EPE) is going to import coal from South Africa to secure sustainable supply of coal as an alternative source of energy for cement factories.
The move follows the unsuccessful bid by the Ethiopian government to acquire pet coke for cement factories.
All 12 cement factories have the infrastructure for using coal while Mugher and East are expected to finish installing infrastructure to use coal power sources by 2013.
Baraton Trading P.L.C signed an agreement with Furukawa, a Japanese company, to import hydraulic breakers and rock drills.
The deal is expected to ease the problems faced by Ethiopian contractors to obtain the construction materials.
