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Ethio Telecom selling 45% stake as Ethiopias telecoms market opens up
2020-05-27 02:00:00| Total Telecom industry news
Ethiopia’s telecoms market has long been notable for being one of the last remaining telecoms monopolies in the world, with connectivity provided exclusively by government owned Ethio Telecom. In the last year, the government has decided that now is the time to liberalise the market…read more on TotalTele.com »
Apparel testing lab opens at Ethiopia's Hawassa Industrial Park
2019-11-29 15:16:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Verification, testing and certification company SGS has opened a new apparel and textile testing laboratory in Ethiopia - one of East Africa's most important textile and garment manufacturing sites.
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Workers strike at Ethiopia's Hawassa Industrial Park
2019-03-13 15:35:00| Daily apparel & textile news and comment - from just-style.com
Thousands of workers at the Hawassa Industrial Park in Ethiopia, the country's flagship textile and apparel production base, are reported to be on strike as part of wider unrest across the city.
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Regional powers back studies on impact of Ethiopia's Nile dam
2016-09-20 12:28:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: gypt, Sudan and Ethiopia commissioned studies into the environmental and economic impact of a $4 billion dam on the Nile that Addis Ababa aims to make the centerpiece of its bid to become Africa's biggest power exporter. The 6,000-megawatt Grand Renaissance Dam, situated close to Ethiopia's border with Sudan and being built by Italy's largest construction firm Salini Impregilo SpA, is due for completion next year. It has become a bone of contention between Ethiopia and Egypt, downstream from the...
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For Ethiopia's famine survivors, new drought stirs hunger and fear
2016-03-01 01:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: When drought and pests decimated their farm in Ethiopia's northern Amhara region, 10-year-old Eseye Tiruneh and her family boarded a bus, fleeing the starvation all around them. It was 1985 and Ethiopia was in the grip of its worst famine, which killed around one million people. Ethiopia's communist regime resettled Eseye's family in Wollega, over 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest, as part of an ambitious plan to move more than a million people from the drought-affected north, where it was fighting...
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