African nations believe financing to help developing countries deal with climate change should be scaled up to $1.6 trillion per year by 2030, a researcher said Tuesday. “The climate finance gap is huge,” Olufunso Somorin (PhD), Regional Principal Officer for Climate Change and Green Growth at African Development Bank said, adding, “At a global level…
Wegagen Bank Share Company has provided a financial support of half a million Birr to Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia on Friday. The Bank’s donation will help to strengthen activities of the Hamlin Fistula Ethiopia where women suffering from obstetric fistula have been getting a medical care, Hailu Molla, Vice Board Chairperson of the Board of Directors…
The United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Ethiopia Mission Director Sean Jones announced a new $7.7 million investment to train the next generation of 750 Ethiopian disaster risk management professionals at Bahir Dar University (BDU), where he also met with university vice-president, Dr. Tesfaye Shiferaw. This new investment, Feed the Future Ethiopia Resilience Platform,…
The Japanese government has granted 4.4 million Birr to support an expansion project of a Medical Worker Vocational Training facility in Somali region. The grant agreement has been signed at the residence of the Japanese Ambassador between Ito Takako, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Ethiopia and Executive Director of Human Concern Organization, Dr….
Boeing solidified a contract agreement for the 787 Landing Gear Exchange Program with Ethiopian Airlines during a signing ceremony at the Farnborough Air Show. The new contract includes 19 787-8 landing gear exchanges. With this new service, Ethiopian Airlines will receive predictable pricing, reduced inventory investment, and instant access to Boeing’s global inventory and will…
HEINEKEN Ethiopia’s existing products. Picture: HEINEKEN Ethiopia
Novartis endorses the Kigali Declaration on neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and announces a five-year financial commitment of $250 million to the fight against NTDs and malaria in conjunction with the Kigali Summit on Malaria and NTDs alongside the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government (CHOGM) meeting. The spending is part of Novartis’ endorsement of the Kigali…
Ministry of Health (MoH), Mastercard, GAVI, The Vaccine Alliance, and JSI announced Friday their partnership to implement the MasterCard Wellness Pass Digital Health Record System. The partnership agreement has been signed among MoH and representatives of the companies at the Headquarters of the Ministry. The digital system will enable to maximize the efficiency of Ethiopia’s…
Ethiopian Airlines Group has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ministry of Health (MoH), The Children’s Heart Fund of Ethiopia (CHFE) and the Rotary Ethiopia (RE) on Thursday. The agreement will enable Ethiopian Airlines to provide free round-trip air transportation services to Bombay, Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai in India for a total of…
Women have been working in challenging situations across textile and apparel as well as flower farms and hospitality industries, revealed new assessment surveys conducted by a group of researchers. Firehiwot Sintayehu and Kibur Engdawork have conducted a survey dubbed “The State and Transformation of Female Wage Labour in Ethiopia: The Case of Textile/Garment industries”. Meanwhile,…
