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AllAfrica News: Ethiopia

12 Maj 2021

• Streamlining Turmeric Production As a Gainful Cash Crop
  [Ethiopian Herald] Ethiopia is a country endowed with many spices products. By adding values to spice products and processing part of them, the nation exports spice to various parts of the world. Spice is, therefore, one area that helps the country to gain foreign currency income.
• Interim Administration Expresses Commitment to Make a Difference
  [Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABBABA- Tigray Interim Administration announced that the administration is ready to work in collaboration with any cooperative organ so as to restore peace, carry out lifesaving activities and rehabilitate conflict victims in the state.
• EU to Deepen Strategic Relationship With the Horn of Africa
  [Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA (ENA) - Council of the European Union on Monday approved conclusions affirming the EU's commitment to give new impetus to its partnership with the Horn of Africa, and establishing a new strategy for the region. A geo-strategic priority for the European Union (EU) in Africa, the Horn of Africa region has undergone unprecedented developments over the last years and is now at a crossroads, according to EU.
• A Move That Created a Revival for Shoe Factories
  [Ethiopian Herald] The production of leather shoes in Ethiopia dates from the late 1930s when Armenian merchants founded two shoe factories in Addis Ababa. These factories nurtured a number of shoemakers, who opened their own factories in Addis Ababa and trained their workers. Today, the neighborhood of Mercato, a huge marketplace in the city, swarms with shoemakers, wholesale shops dealing in leather, soles, and shoe accessories, and shoe retail stores.
• Nit, Ethiopian College Sign MOU for Exchange Programme
  [Daily News] NATIONAL Institute of Transport (NIT) has signed a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) with Ethiopia's Dire Dawa Polytechnic College to explore collaboration in academic exchange programme and research activities.
• Canada Gives U.S.$2.2 Million to FAO to Mitigate Effects of Covid-19, Desert Locusts
  [Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- The Government of Canada has contributed USD$ 2.2 million to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)'s program safeguarding livelihoods affected by COVID-19 and desert locusts in Ethiopia.
• President Tshisekedi Arrives in Addis Ababa
  [ENA] President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the current head of the African Union, Félix Tshisekedi has arrived in Addis Ababa.