How The Cradle Of Mankind Is Fearlessly Leading By Example: Ethiopia has been called the Cradle of Mankind, but today it seems Ethiopia is a guiding light for change, shining over all of Africa >> https://bit.ly/34akD2F
Ethiopian Airlines is inviting you to celebrate Ethiopian New Year which takes place in Skylight Hotel, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from September 11-12, 2019.
The Embassy of the Federal Democratic
Republic of Ethiopia in Brussels hereby invites applicants to apply for a
position of Press and Media Officer at the Embassy.
Position Title: Press and Media Officer
Reports to: The Public Diplomacy Department at the Embassy.
The Press Officer is responsible for press
and communications activities of the Embassy, as well as providing research
support to the diplomatic staff of the Mission.
3. Qualifications and Experience Required:
Candidates
must have at least a master’s degree in one of the following disciplines: Journalism,
Social Sciences or any other related discipline.
Candidates
must have at least (2) years or more experience in working in the media and
relevant professions.
4. Critical competencies
Excellent drafting and reporting skills
Analytical skills
Management & Delivery of Results
Computer literacy
Management experience, excellent interpersonal
skills and ability to organize and motivate others and to work in a
multicultural environment.
5. Language Requirements:
Proficiency in languages (English/French).
Knowledge of other working languages of the Embassy (Flemish) would be an added advantage.
6. Gender:
Ethiopian
Embassy offers an equal opportunity to employers, and qualified women are
strongly encouraged to apply.
7. Remuneration: Per the scale of the Embassy.
8. Type of employment: Contractual
Interested candidates should email the following to info@ethiopianembassy.be: resume, a
cover letter summarizing interests, academic qualifications and experience,
competencies certificates from recognized institutions and three references.
Kindly put “Application – Press and Media Officer” in the
subject line of the email. Please submit material in PDF format.
Application deadline: 2 September 2019
Shortlisted candidates will be invited for written and oral
examinations through their contact address within a short period of time after
the application deadline. No phone calls, please.
The Transitional Military Council and the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC) have signed the final power-sharing deal in Khartoum on August 17.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed witnessed the signing ceremony of the peace deal brokered by Ethiopia and the African Union (AU).
Presidents of Kenya and South Sudan as well as senior officials from different countries, including Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, attended the signing ceremony.
In his remark at the ceremony, Prime Minister Abiy said that “today is the beginning of a new chapter in the history of Sudan.”
“Your victory is a victory for us,” he added.
“Building democracy requires a commitment to its principles as well as requires us to build institutions and work with each other,” he said.
The Prime Minister added that the Government of Ethiopia is committed to support Sudan during the transitional period.
Under the deal, a sovereign council, consisting of six civilians and five generals, will run the country until elections.
The two sides have agreed to rotate the chairmanship of the council for just over three years. A prime minister nominated by civilians is due to be appointed next week.
Ahead of the signing ceremony, the Premier also met members of the Forces for Freedom and Change (FFC).
During the meeting, they appreciated him for the role Ethiopia has played in facilitating the agreements, according to office of the Prime Minister.
They also expressed that the constitutional and political agreements will lay a foundation for sustainable democracy and development.
The Prime Minister for his part encouraged them to foster forgiveness and culture unity, noting that while successful negotiations are stepping stones, the more challenging journey remains ahead of them.
Ethiopia and China are set to partner to build a new, 300 million U.S. dollar industrial park in the East African country.
According to Liu Yu, economic and commercial counsellor at the Chinese Embassy in Ethiopia, the construction of the park, that will be located in Adama city, 99 km southeast of Addis Ababa, could start before the end of 2019.
85 percent of the funding needed to build the industrial park will be covered through Chinese government concessional loans while the remaining 15 percent will come from the Ethiopian government.
“The planned industrial park will focus on attracting firms engaged in equipment manufacturing,” Liu said, noting that work is being done to conclude land acquisition and financing-related procedures.
It will be the second industrial park in Adama city, a key commercial hub in central Ethiopia.
The first Adama industrial park, which was built by China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) at a cost of 146 million dollars, was inaugurated by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in October 2018.
Covering 100 hectares of land, the industrial park is expected to create job opportunities for around 25,000 Ethiopians and is part of Ethiopia’s grand plan to transform its largely agrarian economy into an industrialized one by 2025.
Ethiopia’s parliament has passed a bill to allow members of the Ethiopian diaspora, who have taken up nationalities in other countries, to invest, buy shares, and set up lending businesses in the country’s state-dominated financial sector.
It’s the latest step in a general push to liberalize the country’s economy. The government has previously said it will privatize Ethio Telecom, the state-owned telecommunication monopoly.
Since Ethiopia does not allow citizens to have dual nationalities,
the latest round of reforms is seen as good news for the country’s 5
million-strong diaspora community as well as Ethiopians with foreign
nationalities living inside the country.
The government has been eyeing overhauls to the financial sector, along with other sectors, since Abiy Ahmed’s appointment as prime minister. But authorities have previously called for preparation ahead of any full-scale effort that might create an influx of international banks, and hurt local lending practices.
Some see the opening up of the financial industry to the country’s diaspora community as a trial run for its eventual full liberalization, a move that excites Ethiopian investors abroad. “It will be great for both the country and diaspora community to be able to invest in the whole financial sector,” says Kassy Kebede, founder and managing director at Cepheus Growth Capital, a New York-based Ethiopia focused private equity fund.
Outside of the US, Mimi Alemayehou, a Dakar-based managing
director of the investment platform, the Black Rhino Group, says she is keen to
invest, and has spoken with other Ethiopians in the diaspora who are looking to
do the same.
Targeting the diaspora for Ethiopia’s economic growth has been a
recurring theme by the prime minister. Last year, Abiy set up a council for
the Ethiopian
Diaspora Trust Fund, a non-profit organization which raises money
from the global diaspora community, and works alongside the government to build
development projects in Ethiopia. The call was simple: donate $1 a day to
restore your home country. Ethiopians in the diaspora listened, and so far, the
organization has raised over $4 million for projects in financial inclusion,
entrepreneurship development, and much more.
Birhanie Beka Geleto, a finance director at the DC-based consulting firm, Dewey Square Group says the opening is a good opportunity for the diaspora to bring “technology advancement in the industry with them.” Digital transformation is something the country has in mind, with Ethiopia’s parliament placing provisions in the recent overhaul to allow the private sector to operate digital-based financial services in the country.
The Ethiopian government on Saturday said the country made more than 1.2 billion U.S. dollars in revenue from the exports of coffee and oilseeds during the just-concluded Ethiopian fiscal year that ended on July 7.
The revenue was generated from the export of coffee, mung beans, white kidney beans, sesame seeds and soya beans.
Large amount of the export revenue was generated from the export of coffee. Ethiopia is one of Africa’s largest producers of Arabica coffee, in which coffee production is dubbed as the backbone of the country’s agriculture-led economy.
Ethiopia also recently revealed a new initiative to uplift the current close to 600,000 tons of annual coffee production to 1.8 million tons within the coming five years period.
According to the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority (ECTA), the Chinese market is expected to be a major destination for the nation’s coffee exports.
In April this year, China and Ethiopia signed a Memorandum of Understanding on coffee exports to China and to deepen bilateral trade cooperation.
Amid increasing demand for coffee among younger Chinese, penetrating the emerging coffee market is also increasingly seen as a major priority among Ethiopian coffee producers and exporters.
Ethiopia’s sesame production, which is also considered as one of Ethiopia’s top export commodities next to coffee, has in recent years witnessed growing interest from the Chinese market.
Haile Berhe, President of the Ethiopian Pulses, Oilseeds and Spices Processors-Exporters Association, told Xinhua recently that the export of sesame seed to China currently constitutes close to 70 percent of the country’s total export of the product to the global market.
China is already the east African country’s major export destination. Ethiopia, during the previous Ethiopian 2017-2018 fiscal year, had exported 245 million U.S. dollars of goods to China, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Trade.
