Member of Parliament of Germany and Vice chairman of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation,Hermann Grohe, urges Ethiopia to avoid “at all cost” the kind of after election unrest that claims over 1,500 lives in the neighboring Kenya in 2007.
Michael Lipton, Emeritus Professor of Economics at Sussex and Emeritus Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies advised Sub-Saharan Africa countries to improve their database on land in order to address land governance challenges.
The Korea auto brad Hyundai has opened a assembly plant in Ethiopia. The Assembly is opened by the agent of Hyundai in Ethiopia, Marathon Motors, which is owned by Ethiopian Olympic medalist, Athlete Haile Gebresillassie.
The German Development Cooperation Minister, Gerd Muller, who is on official visit to Ethiopia, says German’s telecom giant, T-Systems operated by Deutsche Telecom Group is interested to joint venture with Ethio Telecom.
BASF, a German chemical company with businesses across the world, today closed acquisition of Bayer’s global vegetable seeds business, mainly operating under the brand Nunhems®.
Uganda becomes the first African country to sign an agreement with the Regional Liquidity Support Facility (RLSF), which will offer protection to new small and mid-sized renewable energy projects (up to 50 MW) in Sub-Sahara Africa.