Ethiopian leather company to penetrate East African market
Ethio international footwear Cluster Cooperative society Ltd has planned to export its leather products to Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda.
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U.S. African Affairs official to visit Ethiopia
Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Tibor Nagy is set to arrive Addis Ababa, Ethiopia this week for an official visit which includes other African countries.
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Ethiopia police seizes cannabis on route to Kenya
Ethiopian police and customs officers seized a truck carrying cannabis and trying to smuggle it to the neighboring Kenya.
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Ethiopia ranks top in illiteracy in eastern Africa
Ethiopia ranks top in eastern Africa having the largest number of illiterate people - over 57% illiterate women aged between 15-45, a report indicates.
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African free trade can create 2 million jobs, doubles growth
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE - Asmara, Eritrea - The implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement signed by African leaders on March 21, 2018, can create two million jobs every year and doubles growth of the continent, a UN official said today.
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Regional integration experts’ meeting opens in Asmara
BY ANDUALEM SISAY GESSESSE - Asmara, Eritrea -
Experts from across the 14 eastern Africa courtiers have gathered in Asmara, Eritrea to discuss regional economic integration of the courtiers in the region.
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Ethiopia, Kenya to explore grain trade opportunities
Kenya and Ethiopia set to explore bilateral grain trade opportunities and investments to bridge cross border trade gap and enhance food security.
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Foreign direct investment turns to foreign direct exploitation
Africa is being exploited by foreign multinational companies in the name of attracting foreign direct investment, which in reality if foreign direct exploitation, says Esther Muchiri, Legal Consultant and Lecturer at Norman Otieno & Co. Advocates in Kenya.
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Africans exploitation continues by design
Poverty in Africa and exploitation of Africans labor and natural resources has continued to this day not by accident but by design says, Crystal Simone, Economic Justice lead at FEMNET – one of Africa’s largest women’s rights networks.
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British territories facilitate stealing of Africa’s tax money
British and its territories are the top destinations of the money multinationals are stealing from Africa countries by tax evasion and tax avoidance, new study reveals.
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Africa advised to embrace artificial intelligence based businesses
African countries are advised to embrace artificial intelligence based new technologies including Blockchain financial technology, instead of banning because the countries don’t have regulatory frameworks in place.
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Africa needs disruptive tax policy to tax digital businesses
Panelists of the 7th Pan African Conference on tax and Illicit financial flows, stress that Africa needs disruptive tax policies that respond to the positively disruptive digital businesses such as ubber.
“Though digital economy is disruptive and has many benefits, which Africa can’t hide from, the countries in the continent need to redefine their tax policies and practices in order to tax the multinational digital businesses,” says Logan Wort, Executive Secretary of African Tax Administration Forum.
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He argues that African countries need to have disruptive tax policies that respond to the disruptive technologies and businesses i order to stop the companies from tax evasion ad tax avoidance.
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