Mekele Industrial Park has completed preparatory works and is now ready to resume full operations, according to Fitsum Ketma, the Head of Transformation Department at the Industrial Parks Development Corporation of Ethiopia (IPDC). Fitsum emphasized that IPDC had been working diligently by sending a team to Mekele city to monitor the status of the Industrial Park and undertake necessary preparatory works to restore it to full operations.
The Mekele Industrial Park in Ethiopia is back in business. After a two-year pause due to the Tigray conflict, the Industrial Parks Development Corporation (IPDC) announced the park's successful return to full-scale production. Existing companies have already restarted operations, and the park is attracting fresh interest from new investors.
Mekelle Industrial Park, built at an outlay of 92 million USD, was inaugurated on July 9, 2017 by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn and other senior government officials. The park is said to be located 5 kilometers away from Tigray State’s capital, Mekelle, and create job opportunities for 20,000 people.
Tigray State Trade and Industry Bureau disclosed the first phase construction of Mekelle Industrial Park, one of the industrial park projects being undertaken in Ethiopia, will be completed by the coming February.
A referral hospital dubbed after the late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi built at an outlay of 200 Million Birr in Somali State is going to go operational in a one month time. This was disclosed by the State’s Health Bureau.
