Close to 44,000 local and foreign tourists during the past six months have visited Lalibela churches found in the Amhara Regional State of Ethiopia, according to Lalibela City Officials.
CNET Software Technologies PLC, an IT firm based in Ethiopia, is going to build an ICT center in the Ethio – ICT Village (ICT Park) in Bole Lemi Industrial Park. The center is estimated to cost 480 million Birr and it will be constructed over 8000 square meters of land in the industrial park. The scheduled period for the completion of the construction is 8 months, according to The Reporter.
Coca-Cola launched its fifth factory which was constructed with USD 100 million in Sebeta town, 19 kilometers from Addis Ababa. The factory has a capacity of producing 100 million bottles of beverage per year.
The inaugural ceremony saw the participation of Government officials including the Chief Administrator of Oromia Region, Shimels Abdisa and Industry Minister, Melaku Alebel.
Ethiopian Airlines and Austria Airlines concluded a codeshare partnership agreement effective since Monday, June 2, 2014, Walta Information Center reported.
A new international initiative aimed at addressing coffee related deforestation has been launched with an East Africa pilot that includes Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. The Coffee Canopy Partnership, initiated by JDE Peet’s and developed with a group of major coffee companies, seeks to create what is described as the world’s first comprehensive and openly accessible map of global coffee production. The project is intended to improve the identification of deforestation risks, support landscape restoration and protect the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across coffee growing regions.
