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News
From Ethiopia
July, 2017
Issue #48
In This Issue Updates From the Embassy in Canberra
Feature Topics
Simien Mountains National Park no longer in danger: UNESCO
AU decides to erect memorials for Emperor Haile Selassie, Former PM
Meles Zenawi
Ethiopia building satellite to launch into orbit after two years
Power pool plans advancing East African electricity market
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Contents
New WHO director from Ethiopia begins work ................................................................... 2
Ethiopia plans to have 15 industrial parks by June 2018 .................................................... 2
Simien Mountains National Park no longer in danger: UNESCO ...................................... 3
Premier visits progress of Awash-Woldia-Haragebya railway project .............................. 4
AU decides to erect memorials for Emperor Haile Selassie, Former PM Meles Zenawi .. 4
Ethiopia eyes balanced trade ties with Kenya, Sudan .......................................................... 5
Ethiopia earns record 866 million USD from coffee export ................................................. 6
Ethiopia finishes top of 13th African Junior Championships medal table......................... 7
Expo Enables Local Innovators to Showcase Products ........................................................ 7
Ethiopia building satellite to launch into orbit after two years ........................................... 8
Ethiopia Fast developing into Dynamic Apparel-sourcing Hub: Nikkei Asian Review
magazine ................................................................................................................................... 9
Ethiopian capital attracts over 650,000 tourists in past 9 months .................................... 11
Power pool plans advancing East African electricity market ............................................ 11
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New WHO director from
Ethiopia begins work
Source: www.ebc.et
New World Health Organization (WHO)
Director General Dr Tedros Adhanom of
Ethiopia is a specialist in malaria.
The new director general of the World
Health Organisation, Tedros Adhanom,
took over managing the UN health agency
on Saturday, the WHO said.
A specialist in malaria, Tedros served as
Health Minister and later as Foreign
Minister for Ethiopia.
The 52-year-old is the first African to head
the global health organisation and he
takes over from Margaret Chan of China,
who led the WHO for nearly 10 years.
Tedros was elected to the post in May in
what was the first time the WHO director-
general was chosen by the World Health
Assembly from among multiple
candidates. Previously a single nominee
had been chosen by the executive board.
The Geneva-based WHO, with some 8,000
employees worldwide, is responsible for
coordinating global action to disease
outbreaks and epidemics, such as Ebola,
and to set the norms for health systems in
all countries.
Ethiopia plans to have 15
industrial parks by June 2018
Source: www.ebc.et
Ethiopia has planned to increase the
number of its industrial parks to 15 by
June 2018 as part of its efforts to boost
manufacturing and export.
Speaking exclusively to Xinhua on
Thursday, Dr. Arkebe Oqubay Board
Chairperson of Ethiopian Industrial Park
Corporation (EIPC), said Ethiopia's aim in
building more industrial parks is to enable
the manufacturing sector to contribute to
20 percent of Ethiopia's GDP and 50
percent of the export volume by 2025.
Currently Ethiopia has seven operational
industrial parks with Mekelle and
Kombolcha being the latest additions
commissioned earlier this month.
Mekelle and Kombolcha industrial parks
were both built by China Civil Engineering
Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a
cost of 100 million U.S. dollars and 90
million dollars respectively.
"In January 2018 Kilinto Pharmaceutical
and Bole Lemi 2 industrial parks will be
commissioned, by May Bahir Dar and
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Jimma industrial parks will be operational,
and in June expect Debre Birhan and
Arerti industrial parks to start operations"
said Dr. Arkebe.
The Ethiopian government has already
announced that two other industrial parks,
Dire Dawa and Adama will be
commissioned in September.
The two industrial parks are also being
constructed by CCECC at a cost of 190
million and 125 million dollars
respectively.
"Industrial parks will initiate fast economic
growth and enable structural economic
change through a high tech manufacturing
industry," said Dr. Arkebe.
He further said with Ethiopia planning to
sustain 14 years of double-digit growth for
a decade in order to create 2 million
direct and 4.4 million indirect
manufacturing jobs, the bulk of them will
come from industry parks.
Simien Mountains National
Park no longer in danger:
UNESCO
Source: www.unesco.org
The World Heritage Committee meeting
in Krakow has decided to remove Simien
Mountains National Park from the List of
World Heritage in Danger in recognition of
improvements in its management and of
measures taken to reduce overgrazing
and visitor impact.
The World Heritage Committee welcomed
Ethiopia's commitment in building an
alternative road to alleviate the
disturbance of traffic on the main road
that crosses the property, reduce cattle
overgrazing and visitor impact. The
Committee furthermore welcomed the
stabilization of the site's endemic animal
populations of, notably, Walia ibex and
Gelada baboons.
Massive erosion over the years on the
Ethiopian plateau has created one of the
most spectacular landscapes in the world,
with jagged mountain peaks, deep valleys
and sharp precipices dropping some
1,500m. Simien National Park is home to
extremely rare animal species.
Inscribed on the World Heritage List in
1978, the site was added to the List of
World Heritage in Danger in 1996 due to
the impact of a new road across it,
excessive cattle grazing, agricultural
encroachment and a drop in Walia ibex,
Simien fox and other large mammal
populations.
The List of World Heritage in Danger is
designed to inform the international
community of conditions, which threaten
the very characteristics for which a
property was inscribed on the World
Heritage List, and to encourage corrective
action. Typical threats that lead to danger
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listing include armed conflict, natural
disaster, unplanned urban developments,
poaching and pollution.
Premier visits progress of
Awash-Woldia-Haragebya
railway project
Source: www.fanabc.com
Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has
visited the progress of Awash-Woldia-
Haragebya railway project.
He was accompanied by several high level
government officials including, Chief of
Amhara regional state, Gedu
Andargachew and Minister of Transport,
Ahmed Shide, according to a statement
the Ethiopian Railways Corporation sent
to FBC today. “By taking part in this
flagship project, I believe that Ethiopians
have gained technology and knowledge
which help the country to manage railway
projects by its own in the future,” the
Premier said after the visit.
The 390-km long Awash-
Woldia/Haragebya railway is 57 percent
complete now. The project also sees the
construction of 12 tunnels and 65 bridges.
The project is being implemented into two
phases. The first phase of the project, a
stretch of 270km from Awash-Kombolcha,
is 75 percent complete and will start test
run at the end of this year, the statement
said. Some 6, 500 people are taking part
at the project, including 4,000 Ethiopians,
the statement added.
AU decides to erect memorials
for Emperor Haile Selassie,
Former PM Meles Zenawi
Source: www.ebc.et
The African Union decides to recognize
the works of Emperor Haile Selassie and
former Prime Minister Melese Zenawi of
Ethiopia for their key role in strengthening
Pan-Africanism.
The AU has decided to erect memorials
for these former Ethiopian leaders for
their contribution to the Union. The
decision was made today at the closing
ceremony of the 29th AU Summit held at
the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia under the theme, “Harnessing
the Demographic Dividend through
Investment in the Youth.”
Briefing the press in relation with AU's
decision to recognize Ethiopian leaders
who fought for Pan-Africanism, Ethiopian
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Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn
appreciated the move of African Union.
AU is due to recognize former Ethiopian
Prime Minister Meles Zenawi for his role
in transforming OAU to AU among other
massive undertakings.
The leaders have also decided to
recognize the role of emperor Haile
Selassie in the establishment of the then
OAU and in the struggle to make Africa
strong and independent.
Ethiopia eyes balanced trade
ties with Kenya, Sudan
Source: www.fanabc.com
Ethiopia targets to balance its trade
exchange with neighbouring Kenya and
Sudan by exporting value added
agricultural products and quality industrial
goods, according to Ministry of Trade.
Head of Public Relations and
Communication Affairs Office at the
Ministry, Wondimu Filate told ENA that
recently, the trade balance between
Ethiopia and the two countries has been
in favour of the neighbours especially in
2016.
Alongside the import/export, total trade
volume has also varied especially with
Sudan, Wondimu underscored.
For instance trade volume with Sudan
dropped to 145 million USD in 2015 from
356.8 million USD in 2010. Ethiopia
exports agricultural products to Sudan
while imports mainly oil products.
“Activities are being underway to
penetrate into the markets of the two
nations by exporting quality industrial
products alongside value added
agricultural products to boost the
country`s foreign currency”, he said.
Expansion of agro-processing and
industrial parks will play a fundamental
role in this regard by enabling the country
produce value added export oriented
items, Wondimu added.
In addition to local infrastructural
development, the country has also been
working to create regional integration
with extensive cross boundary
infrastructural network including power,
road and railway.
The expansion of these infrastructural
networks with all neighbouring countries
and beyond is expected to improve the
intra-regional trade.
According to recent reports, Ethiopia
plans to earn 290 million USD annually
from energy export by 2019, when the
Ethio-Kenya electricity transmission and
distributions line is completed.
Ethiopia earns about 80 million USD of
revenue annually by selling about 100
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MW of energy to Sudan and 80 MW of
energy to Djibouti.
Trading raw agricultural products,
contraband trade and instability were
mentioned among the major challenges
that tested the growth of trade between
countries the region, it was stated.
“Ethiopia has been playing its leading role
particularly on settling peace and stability
in the volatile region, Horn of Africa in
particular and Africa in general with
prioritizing peace to boost all forms of
relations”, Wondimu underlined.
Ethiopia has enjoyed a positive trade
balance with the other two neighbouring
countries Djibouti and Somalia, according
to the ministry.
Ethiopia earns record 866
million USD from coffee export
Source: www.ebc.et
Ethiopia has announced a record 866-
million-U.S.-dollar earning from coffee
export during the just concluded fiscal
year.
The announcement by the Ethiopian
Coffee and Tea Development and
Marketing Authority on Wednesday said
Ethiopia has secured the revenue from
the export of 221,000 tonnes of coffee to
the global market.
According to the authority, the country
has managed to achieve 92 percent of its
targets in coffee export sector during the
2016/2017 fiscal year.
The authority further hailed the
performance as "a very great
achievement" compared to the previous
years as the quantity of coffee product
exported grew by 11.5 percent while the
income generated from coffee export
increased by 20 percent.
Germany, Saudi Arabia, the United States,
Belgium, Sudan and South Korea are
among the top importers of the Ethiopian
coffee, accounting for close to 86 percent
of the total coffee exported from Ethiopia,
according to the authority.
Ethiopia is one of Africa's largest
producers of Arabica coffee. Coffee
production is dubbed as the backbone of
the country's agriculture-led economy.
The East African country also announced
74 million dollars earning from gold
exports during the same fiscal year.
The revenue was reduced by half from the
previous period, when Ethiopia earned
150 million dollars from gold exports.
The Ethiopian Mines, Petroleum and
Natural Gas has blamed primarily the
contraband gold trading for the decrease
in gold exports revenue.
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Ethiopia finishes top of 13th
African Junior Championships
medal table
Source: www.fanabc.com
Ethiopian athletics team finished first at
the 13th African Junior Championships
held in Tlemcen, Algeria, collecting a total
of 38 medals, 13 of them gold.
The African Junior Athletics
Championships, a biennial continental
athletics event for junior athletes from
African nations, held for the 13th time in
Algeria, ended last night.
At the end of the Championships, Ethiopia
secured 13 gold, 13 silver and 12 bronze
medals in various events.
With 17 medals (12 gold, 4 silver and one
bronze), South Africa finished 2nd, while
the host country, Algeria, obtained 20
medals (4 gold, 8 silver and 8 bronze) to
earn a third place.
Kenya finished 4th with 10 medals (4 gold,
4 silver and two bronze.)
It is to be recalled that Nigeria, South
Africa and Ethiopia stood first, second and
third, respectively, at the 12th African
Junior Championships held in Addis Ababa
two years ago.
Expo Enables Local Innovators
to Showcase Products
Source: www.ena.gov.et
Ethiopia’s first international ICT Expo has
enabled local innovators and companies
to showcase products and innovations, as
well as share best practices with global
companies.
Participants of the expo, who ENA has
talked, said the expo creates opportunity
to display innovations to visitors
estimated at 300,000 from around the
world.
The first international ICT Expo is being
held in Addis Ababa under the theme:
“Digital Ethiopia”.
Gebeya.com is one of the companies that
have been engaged on producing talented
IT software developers in Africa with its IT
training academy in Ethiopia since
September 2016.
The academy was introduced in to the
market by two African innovators named
Amadou Daffe and Hiruy Amanuel.
Merkeb Mengistu, Marketing Manager of
Gebeya.com said that the company has
exhibited many innovative products in the
expo.
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She noted that such kind of expo enable
companies like Gebeya.com to find
sponsors and partners that would help
them penetrate into the global market.
Merkeb said SAEW, an application to
monitor patients’ health status, is one of
the new innovations that the company
displays in the expo. The sensor to be
worn on the patient’s wrists, monitors the
patient’s health status and sends
messages to the nurse or to the caretaker
when there is an emergency.
According to her, the application will be
applied in hospitals in the capital Addis
Ababa in the coming three months.
Addistag Systems PLC, a company that has
interest on developing various mobile and
computer software and applications is
another company participating in the
expo.
Since its establishment in 2016 the
company has developed a mobile
application for United Bank to show
places where branch offices and ATM
machines of the bank are for customers,
Yafet Birehanu, co-founder of the
company said.
According to him, the company is
displaying its latest mobile application
“Selam Taxi” in this Expo. The app, to be
installed on mobile phones, provides
users with exact location of places and
provides information about taxis that can
offer services.
The application provides users’
information about places where they
want to go and identifies what kind of taxi
can provide them transport service,
including plate numbers and the price.
The application that could be installed on
taxis can also provide information to
drivers and passengers the kilometre they
have travelled and the price to be charged.
Many visitors have shown interest in the
application, Yafet said
Since his company is new to the ICT
market, Yafet believes that such kind of
expo would have great impact by creating
vast opportunities.
There are more than 25 innovative start-
up companies that have exhibiting their
innovations like Gebeya and Addistag
Systems PLC in the expo that consists
exhibition and conference.
Over 300 guests from 45 countries across
the world have been attending the
international expo that Ethiopia has
hosting for the first time.
Ethiopia building satellite to
launch into orbit after two
years
Source: www.fanabc.com
Chaired by Prime Minister Hailemariam
Desalegn, the first regular meeting of the
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Ethiopian Space Science and Technology
Council held today.
The meeting, which was conducted at the
Prime Minister’s office, discussed in detail
on collective works, legal frameworks,
policies and strategies needed to advance
the ongoing works in the sector.
Space science and technology centred
recommendations, researches and
satellite launches are aimed at supporting
the national agendas that were designed
to improve the livelihoods of the people,
said the Premier at the end of the meeting.
Dr Engineer Getahun Mekurai, Minister of
Science and Technology for his part said
that the country is building a satellite to
launch into orbit after two years.
The satellite, which is being built with the
support of the Chinese government,
weighs 65kgs, according to him.
It will be placed into orbit at a height of up
to 700 km above the surface, he said,
adding, Ethiopian engineers are
participating in building the satellite, he
said.
The Minister indicated that Ethiopia will
launch the satellite in 2019. The satellite
will be used for various purposes, for
weather forecast and other related
activities in particular, it was noted.
The Ethiopian Space Science and
Technology Council is mandated to make
recommendations on issues related to
space science and technology as well as to
manage activities of the Ethiopian Space
Science and Technology Institute.
Ethiopia Fast developing into
Dynamic Apparel-sourcing Hub:
Nikkei Asian Review magazine
Source: www.ena.gov.et
Ethiopia is fast developing into a dynamic
apparel-sourcing hub as low labour costs
lure international clothing makers to the
African nation, according to the Nikkei
Asian Review magazine.
Manufacturers from China, South Korea,
India and other countries have opened
new plants in the continent's second most
populous nation while a growing number
of European and U.S. brands are sourcing
garments there, it stated.
A significant factor in Ethiopia's
emergence on the clothing scene is the
planned opening of a new railway line to a
port in neighbouring Djibouti, located on
the Horn of Africa in the Arabian Sea.
The railway will facilitate transport of
goods from the landlocked country's
industrial areas, like the Bole Lemi
Industrial Park, an hour's drive from the
capital Addis Ababa.
Opened in 2015, the sprawling 150-
hectare park is bustling with Chinese,
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Taiwanese and South Korean production
facilities, conveniently clustering factories
for textiles, apparel products and leather
shoes in one area.
At a factory operated by Shin Textile
Solutions, a South Korean company,
workers sit at long rows of machines
sewing mainly sportswear, the magazine
wrote.
According to the general manager, the
plant's entire output is exported, with
about 60 percent going to Europe, 20
percent to the U.S and the remainder to
Asia.
Japan's Fast Retailing, which
manufactures and sells casual clothes
under the Uniqlo brand, is among the
many apparel makers that have shown
interest in the plant, the manager said.
Ethiopia's low labour cost makes it an
attractive garment-sourcing destination,
according to the company.
The average monthly pay for a factory
worker is about 50 USD, compared with
140-160 USD in Kenya, 70-90 USD in
Bangladesh, 150-170 USD in Vietnam and
400-500 USD in China, it added.
Ethiopia's main exports currently include
coffee, gold and leather products, but the
government is stepping up efforts to
develop new industries.
With a population hovering around 100
million, Ethiopia is the second most
populous nation in Africa after Nigeria.
The country's young, low-wage workforce
gives it the potential to grow into a major
garment-sourcing hub with a vibrant
market, the magazine elaborated.
Another factor in favour of the country
becoming a bigger manufacturer is its
fast-developing infrastructure, according
to Nikkei Asian Review.
The inland nation used to depend heavily
on trucking, hindering its transition to a
more export-oriented economy. But the
new railway connecting Addis Ababa to
Djibouti will solve this problem.
The government has built a distribution
centre in the Addis Ababa suburb of Mojo,
where there is also a train station on the
new line. Goods from Ethiopia's industrial
parks will be sent to the Port of Djibouti
via the centre.
Previously, it took three days to transport
goods by truck from Addis Ababa to
Djibouti. The railway will cut this to about
nine hours.
Currently, companies targeting Ethiopia
are mostly apparel makers and other light
industry players. But General Electric
plans to manufacture medical equipment
in the country, and Samsung Electronics is
working with a local partner to produce
printers.
Meanwhile, Hyundai Motor reached an
agreement with a local company in May
regarding construction of a plant to
assemble commercial vehicles.
China has also been a leading investor in
Ethiopia, as in other parts of Africa.
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Ethiopian capital attracts over
650,000 tourists in past 9
months
Source: www.ebc.et
Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa has
attracted over 650,000 tourists in the first
three quarters of the just completed
Ethiopian fiscal year, according to Addis
Ababa city administration officials.
Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa is known
for hosting various international and
regional organizations, which include the
African Union (AU) headquarters and the
United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa (UN-ECA).
According to a statement by the Addis
Ababa City Administration Culture and
Tourism Office on Monday, the city has
registered an increase in the number of
tourists during the last decade.
The city administration, which had an
initial plan to attract 675,000 visitors
during the just completed 2016/2017
Ethiopian fiscal year, was able to
accomplish over 90 percent of its target
by attracting over 650,000 tourists in the
first nine months of the year, according to
Gebretsadik, head of Addis Ababa City
Administration Culture and Tourism Office.
According to Gebretsadik, with an average
of 12 days of stay in the capital, tourists
from around the world have frequently
visited 13 attraction sites, including the
Ethiopian national museum.
Gebretsadik further noted that the city
administration has implemented various
measures in a bid to augment the number
of tourists, including an updated tourist
map and other guides.
The Ethiopian National Museum, located
at the heart of Addis Ababa, is one major
tourist attraction site for the east African
country.
The historical and archaeological artefacts
collection on show at the Ethiopian
national museum is ranked among the
most important in sub-Saharan Africa. It is
also home to the most famous Lucy, a 3.2
million-year-old human ancestor of the
hominid era.
Power pool plans advancing
East African electricity market
Source: www.fanabc.com
The East African Power Pool (EAPP) seeks
to ensure increased power supply,
reduced production cost and efficient
transmission and exchange in its bid to
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ultimately establish a modernized
electricity market in East Africa.
Through designing and continuously
updating a master plan for regional power
integration, EAPP provides frameworks for
its member states in their quest to
advancing power production and trade,
Zelalem Gebrehiwot, Technical Director at
EAPP told The Ethiopian Herald.
The master plan, according to Zelalem,
also helps members in drafting their
national plans of power generation and
export as well as transmission lines
installation.
EAPP conducted a study to support the
robust Ethio-Kenya Interconnector which
is now under construction. It has also
been engaged in the development of
market rules and procedures as well as
studies on regional regulation and
procedures, according to him.
“With the completion of the ongoing
power infrastructure projects and those in
the pipeline, EAPP is evolving to be
Africa’s biggest power pool in terms of
connectivity, installed capacity, and
geographic coverage” claimed Zelalem.
EAPP is currently mainly contributing to
the completion of the Ethiopia-Kenya-
Tanzania interconnection, besides the
Tanzania-Zambia interconnection. This
would herald the realization of the North-
South Power Corridor, and the
interconnection of the South African
Power Pool (SAPP) with EAPP.
Moreover, added Zelalem, EAPP works on
similar platforms such as the Eastern
Africa transmission planning partnership,
EAPP interconnection code compliance
programme, development of a wheeling
agreement and tariff for the Ethiopia-
Kenya-Tanzania transaction which are
currently underway.
“Ethiopia could earn a staggering one
billion US dollars per annum from power
trade in the near future with its increasing
production and bilateral agreements the
country signed for electricity export.”
The East African region represents 39 per
cent of African population and is endowed
with renewable energy resources;
whereas more than 200 million people in
the region are without access to electricity,
accounting for around 80 per cent of its
population.
EAPP was established in 2005 with the
signing of an Inter-Governmental
Memorandum of Understanding (IGMOU)
by seven Eastern Africa countries, namely:
Ethiopia, Burundi, DRC, Egypt, Kenya,
Rwanda and Sudan.
EAPP was adopted as a specialized
institution to foster power system
interconnectivity by the heads of states of
the Common Market for Eastern and
Southern Africa (COMESA) region.
Tanzania, Libya and Uganda have joined
EAPP in March 2010, February 2011 and
December 2012 respectively.