The Office of the First Lady of Ethiopia has inaugurated a bread and flour factory in Addis Ababa that is capable of producing a million loaves per day. First Lady Zinash Tayachew has handed the factory, which is located in Lemi-Kura Sub City, to Adanech Abiebie, Mayor of the City of Addis Ababa.
Ethiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, will benefit from a COVID-19 prevention project the city administration is putting in place to protect the people of the city, the administration announced. As part of the project, 1.2 million residents of Addis will receive sanitation and hygienic supplies in varying amounts based on their family sizes. Awareness creation about the pandemic will also be part of the project.
Ethiopia’s cement capacity has been growing by 6.8 percent on average throughout the years 2013 to 2018, CW Group states.
Ethiopia's Central Statistics Agency projected that the price of food items will lower during the next three months. The Agency has also reported that the rate of inflation for the month of October has decreased to 34.2 percent, from the 34.8 percent the previous month.
Ethiopia's coffee industry exported 210,000 tons in just 10 months and raked in USD 1 billion, according to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA).
