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Contents ETHIOPIA
Ethiopia: Julphar To Open Insulin Factory ...... 3
Ethiopia To Use Port Sudan For Import ...... 4
Ethiopia: New Customs Proclamation Came To Effect ...... 5
Ministry Says Working To Meet Power Demands Of Industries Featured ...... 6
Ethiopia Importing Cotton To Meet Demand Featured ...... 7
Ethiopian Eyes Rwandair As Strategic Partner...... 8
Addis Lrt Trial To Start This February...... 10
Three New Oil Retailers To Join The Sector ...... 11
SOUTH SUDAN Igad Mediators Condemn Renewed Violence In South Sudan’s Unity And Upper Nile States ...... 13
DJIBOUTI
Nouvelle Ligne Ferroviaire Djibouto-Ethiopienne : Le President Lance Les Travaux De Pose De Rails A Galilee ...... 14
AFRICA
Più Africa Anche Per Papa Francesco, Tre Nuovi Cardinali Sono Africani ...... 15
EVENTS Italian Movies Oscar Series ...... 17
Concerto Jazz Bossi E Bondini All’istituto Italiano ...... 17
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ETHIOPIA: JULPHAR TO OPEN INSULIN FACTORY
Julphar Ethiopia total shares while Julphar takes According to Fortune the Pharmaceutical Industry as the rest 55 percent. factory is going to be an expansion of its factory constructed on an 11,051 is going to start Africa’s Country Director of the UAE square meters plot of land. The first insulin factory. based company, Mukemil new paper added the factory is Abdella, said “We are hoping going to be worth One Billion (02.01.2015 – 2Merkato) that the land for construction Birr and it is expected to begin will be handed over to us in the production in two years by the Julphar which was inaugurated next two weeks”. beginning of 2015. in February 2013 is owned by the UAE based Julphar Gulf However, he did not reveal the Julphar Ethiopia has a capacity Pharmaceutical Industries and capacity of the plant and just of producing 25 million bottles a local firm Med-tech Ethiopia said his company intends to of suspensions and syrups, 500 and was established with a make Ethiopia the insulin hub million tablets and 170 million capital of 170 Million Birr. Med- of Africa. capsules annually. tech owns 45 percent of the
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ETHIOPIA TO USE PORT SUDAN FOR IMPORT
Ministry of Transport The Federal Government order to of Sudan, Kenya and announced Ethiopia is concluded an agreement with Somalia to ease increasing going to start using its Sudanese counterpart for dependency in Djibouti. Sudan’s main seaport for the purpose of importing the importing goods. 50,000 Tones of fertilizers via According to Sudan Tribute, Port Sudan, the State Minister the Ethiopian government is (02.01.2015 – 2Merkato) explained. He furthered, “To currently working with solve the problem of storage counterparts in the Until now Ethiopia has been space, a new 5 000 meter autonomous Somaliland region using Port Sudan only for the square storage facility has been in Somalia to use Berbera port. purpose of exporting its goods opened a week ago around to the international market. Mojjo”. Ethiopia being one of the 16 land locked countries in Africa, Getachew Mengestie, State Currently Ethiopia uses port of its bill shows it has been Minister for Transport, said the Djibouti for 90 percent of its spending hundreds of millions move is taken by the Federal international trade. of dollars for port services. Government in the aim of Nonetheless, the country is meeting Ethiopia’s growing looking for alternative sea ports economic demand. in neighboring countries in
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ETHIOPIA: NEW CUSTOMS PROCLAMATION CAME TO EFFECT
A new customs addition to this it has included Commenting on the proclamation is provision that ensures free promulugation of the new promulgated and is in movement of goods for those proclamation Girma Tafesse, effect as of Wednesday organizations identified as Federal Inland Revenue December 24, 2014. The Authorized Economic Operators Branches Coordination Office new bill has fully replaced (AEO), eases Post Clearance Directorate Director of ERCA, the former customs bill, Audits (PCA), and decentralizes said; “The new proclamation Proclamation Number the activity of the authority. will accelerate the international 622/2009. and local business in According to Capital, the collaboration with the (02.01.2015 – 2MErkato) proclamation will fill gaps that upcoming new proclamation for were witnessed because of the income tax”. The new proclamation is customs proclamation that has dubbed Proclamation 859/2014 been in effect for the past five Draft proclamation which will which aims at promoting and years. The newspaper amend the income tax legal supporting the manufacturing furthered it is the need for a regime governing is also on the industry and economic more modern customs legal making and is now at the development has eight parts. framework to support Ministry of Finance and development of industries and Economic Development The newly passed bill investment has made the (MoFED) for final revision introduces structural changes introduction of the new before it is delivered to the in the authority and its human proclamation necessary. Councils of Ministers. resources management. In
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MINISTRY SAYS WORKING TO MEET POWER DEMANDS OF INDUSTRIES FEATURED
The Ministry of Water, of transmission lines and long term plans to permanently Irrigation and Energy said distribution stations caused address the problem. it is undertaking activities power interruptions. to meet the ever-increasing Alemayehu said that the power demand for power in the The Ministry is working to demand of industries is industries and end power expand the capacity of the growing every year; it has interruptions. transmission lines and increased by 500mw this year distribution stations. When this alone. Last year it was (03.01.2015 – ENA) project completes, the power 1200mw. interruption many of the While discussing with medium industries have encountered In addition from the efforts and higher industries here will be solved, he added. from the government side to today, the Minister Alemayehu address the problem, he urged Tegenu said increasing demand He added that the Ministry has that industries should also combined with limited capacity been implementing short and need to minimize power waste.
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ETHIOPIA IMPORTING COTTON TO MEET DEMA ND FEATURED
Ethiopia has imported over the factories through According to Bantihun, 3,000 tons cotton over the importation and expansion of industries such as Ayka Addis, past five months to ease cotton plantations, Bantihun Adama and Selin dewan textile the raw material shortage Gesese, PR Director at the factories are working in this in the textile industries, the Institute told ENA. regard. Textiles Industry Development Institute The government has The raw material shortage is said. introduced a new system that affecting the revenue the allows factories to cultivate nation is getting from textlies (02.01.2015 – ENA) cotton in order to ease the export. The revenue secured shortage for raw material. during the past five months is The government has been one-third of the target. trying to meet the demands of
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ETHIOPIAN EYES RWANDAIR AS STRATEGIC PARTNER
The management of headquarters of RwandAir and giving the company financial Ethiopian Airlines has held discussion with officials of support yearly to upgrade its shown an interest in RwandAir and government fleet and to expand facilities at becoming a strategic officials. Senior executives of its hub in Kigali. partner of RwandAir, the Ethiopian have expressed their national flag carrier of interest in becoming a strategic An African airline industry Rwanda. partner of RwandAir. analyst The Reporter talked to said that RwandAir as an airline (03.01.2015 – The Ethiopian Airlines Group CEO, is growing fast and making an Reporter) Tewolde Gebremariam, impact on the market. “The confirmed his management’s reason the government is RwandAir is a small but fast interest in RwandAir but looking for a strategic partner growing airline in Africa. The declined to give further details is to help it move forward government of Rwanda is as the discussion is at an early faster and to build its capacity. currently looking for a strategic stage. They are looking for like partner that can help it in minded airlines like Ethiopian taking the national flag carrier RwandAir was established in its Airlines and others. It is not for forward. The Government of present form in 2009. It existed financial support as such. Rwanda has hired an before as RwandAir Express There are many carriers international consulting firm, which was semi government- wanting to partner with Ernst & Young, and is studying owned. With only one wet RwandAir since it is now IOSA a turnaround strategy. leased twin otter aircraft [IATA Operational Safety Audit] Currently, the airline is not RwandAir Express was a small certified and has good market making profit. airline. reach/share in the region,” the analyst said. Reliable sources at Ethiopian The Government of Rwanda told The Reporter that the started RwandAir in 2009 as At the moment, Rwandair has a management of Ethiopian has the sole proprietor and started new fleet of seven aircraft and shown a keen interest in investing in the airline buying will receive the 8th in April buying a stake in RwandAir. new fleet, and expanding its 2015.The average fleet age is Sources said a delegation route structure. Instead of under three years -very young comprising senior officials of investing in one go in the and modern fleet. “The Ethiopian recently visited the airline, the government is Government of Rwanda is
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committed to make RwandAir As part of its Vision 2025 Lilongwe began operation last one of the best in Africa and growth plan, Ethiopian is year from its hub at Lilongwe going by the look of things implementing a multi hub International Airport. It serves they are likely to achieve that strategy. The Ethiopian six domestic and regional with or without a partner,” the national flag carrier is a destinations. Ethiopian has a analyst said. strategic partner of ASKY, a five year management and pan African airline based in technical service agreements RwandAir serves 16 domestic Togo Lome. ASKY which began with both airlines. and international destinations operation in 2010 serves 22 in Africa and the Middle East. destinations in West and More recently, Ethiopian signed The fleet comprises two Boeing Central Africa. Ethiopian has a a Memorandum of 737-800NG, one Bombardier 40 percent stake on ASKY. Understanding with the Q400, and two Boeing 737- government of South Sudan 700. Ethiopian Airlines has a Ethiopian has also invested on that enables it to invest on a technical service agreement another start up airline in new start up airline in the with RwandAir. Southern Africa, Malawi Airlines youngest nation. Ltd. Malawian Airlines based in
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ADDIS LRT TRIAL TO START THIS FEBRUARY
The Addis Ababa Light Rail Kality customs office. After that past nine months as rail Transit is scheduled to it will roam around the city. masters (train drivers), commence its official trial The Kality LRT station is technicians and those who will operation the coming situated on a 10,000 sqm plot work on operations, will also be February. Upon the start of and will serve as the main hub. part of this trial process. the LRT trial service special The Kaliti depot will be the traffic police will be operational headquarters and More than 250 Ethiopian deployed. will mainly oversee the line that students are being trained in stretches from north to south china and the majority are (03.01.2015 – The and has installed a pre- completing their courses and Reporter) programmed automatic will be back by mid-January. controlling machines. The “In order to make sure that the depot, apart from regulating Dereje said that the trial period LRT is up to international the movement of the LRT, will is expected to take some three standards, the testing of the serve as the main base for the months. When the service tracks and cars will be cars. officially starts 41 cars will be conducted the coming February ready to serve the public. without passengers on board,” A similar depot, which is under From these nine of them are Public Relations Head of the construction around Ayat area, already in Addis while the other Ethiopian Railways Corporation, will oversee the operations of ten have reached the Port of Dereje Tefera, told The the line that stretches from Djibouti. Reporter. After it is fully tested east to west. it will start to serve the public, Fencing of the lines is still Dereje added. Consortium Organize Metro in under construction and special collaboration with China traffic police, which will be The first trial will take place in Railway will be conducting the tasked to keep pedestrians, the compound of the LRT trial operation. According to passengers and vehicles off the depot, which is located around Dereje, Ethiopians, who are track, will also be deployed being trained in China for the once the service fully starts.
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THREE NEW OIL RETAILERS TO JOIN THE SECTOR
The Ethiopian petroleum operate as an oil retailer in which is considered to be one and petroleum products Ethiopia. of the few major international distribution and marketing gas companies in the world. sector, which was “We have finalized everything Shell Oil on the other hand is a dominated by four foreign and we are waiting for some of US-based subsidiary of the companies for over 50 our machineries to be Royal Dutch Shell, another oil years before it was opened installed,” Sisay Woldeyes, major of an Anglo-Dutch origin for local companies only a owner of of Allway Petroleum, which is among early entrants decade ago, is braced to which has been established to the Ethiopian oil retail welcome three more local with an initial paid up capital of market. companies – Marathon 50 million birr, told The Petroleum, Tebarek Reporter. Agip, Azienda Generale Italiana Petroleum and Allway Petroli or General Italian Oil Petroleum – tilting the The new entrants will increase Company is the former balance in favor of the number of oil retail automotive gasoline, diesel, domestic oil retailers. companies to 12 further LPG, lubricant, fuel oil and increasing the number of local bitumen retailer founded in (03.01.2015 – The retailers to seven shifting the 1926, and Mobil as well is Reporter) balance towards domestic another dominant figure in the retailers. The total number of Ethiopian oil retail business. According to sources close to oil retailers at the moment own What is know as ExxonMobil The Reporter, the three and operate some 3000 fuel after its merger with another companies are in the process stations across the country out US oil company Exxon in 1999 of completing the formalities which 60 percent of market dominated the business for that is required to operate a share is still claimed by the quite some time. petroleum and petroleum foreign oil retailers. products distribution marketing The four companies enjoyed a company in Ethiopia. The The Ethiopian oil retail business relative monopoly in the Ministry of Trade requires the has long been dominated by Ethiopian market for over 50 oil company to construct a few foreign firms namely Total, years before the ministerial 500,000 liter depot and have a Shell, Mobil and Agip. Total SA cabinet enacted a regulation to minimum of six filling stations is a French multinational allow local companies to take a before issuing the license to integrated oil and gas company piece of the oil retail business
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in 2004. After the regulation Oil joined the retail business to was passed, National Oil diversify oil retail industry in So far, only OiLibya and Nile Company (NOC) PLC and Ethiopia. This was followed by have been accredited to blend Yetebaberut Beherawi the withdrawal of the three Ethanol with Benzene for the Petroleum SC (YBP) became long established oil retailers in national strategic ethanol the first oil retailers to step up Ethiopia with the exception of blending program producing E- to the plate and join the retail Total. 5 and E-10 fuel products for business. Both established with the local market at their an initial capital of 100 million However, foreign retailers like facilities located in the outskirt and 21 million birr respectively, OiLibya, buying fuel stations of the city (Suluta, Winchiti and the two chartered the way for that belonged to Shell, Kobil, Akaki). In fact, Nile petroleum other petroleum retailers to which also took over the rights was the first one to start E-5 surface in local market. of Mobil, and Nile Petroleum blending project and was later Ethiopia and later on WAS have joined by OiLibya and Total has However, NOC and entered the Ethiopian market been contemplating to join the Yetebaberut were not the only to bring the total number of business. ones. Other local oil retailers the oil retailers in Ethiopia up such as Dalol Oil SC and TAF to nine.
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SOUTH SUDA N
IGAD MEDIATORS CONDEMN RENEWED VIOLENCE IN SOUTH SUDAN’S UNITY AND UPPER NILE STATES
The IGAD Special Envoys warring parties’ commitment to at the start of this New Year for South Sudan strongly an unconditional, complete and “to make the gift of peace to condemned on Wednesday immediate end to all hostilities the people of South Sudan, and (January 01) reports of at the 28th Extra-Ordinary ensure that the conflict does heavy fighting in Nassir, Summit of the IGAD Heads of not continue for one moment Upper Nile State, and near State and Government on longer.” Bentiu town in Unity State, November 7, 2014, expressing South Sudan. their expectation, plea and They also renewed their call to hope that this commitment is the IGAD Heads of State and (03.01.2015 – WIC) fully respected. Government, the African Union, the United Nations, the Troika, The Special Envoys reiterated The statement said IGAD the European Union, the their call on all forces to Monitoring and Verification People’s Republic of China and immediately cease hostilities, Teams have been instructed to the broader international urging all forces to display investigate these latest community to join them in restraint as per their “repeated incidents and determine pressuring the parties to pledges to end the war.” responsibility for the violations. immediately end hostilities and commit to the ongoing peace The press statement issued by The IGAD Special Envoys process. (MoFA) the Special Envoys referred the appealed to the warring parties
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DJIBOUTI
NOUVELLE LIGNE FERROVIAIRE DJIBOUTO-ETHIOPIENNE : LE PRESIDENT LANCE LES TRAVAUX DE POSE DE RAILS A GALILEE
Mercredi dernier, le chef de d’autres hauts responsables l’Etat s’est rendu à Galilée, étaient présents à Galilée. Tous ces investissements à la frontière djibouto- concourent au renforcement de éthiopienne pour le Le chef de l’Etat, accueilli par le la compétitivité de hub lancement des travaux de préfet Mohamed Warsama, a logistique régional que pose des rails pour la partie écouté les explications constitue le pays. djiboutienne de la ligne techniques des responsables ferroviaire électrique du chantier. Les retombées de cette Djibouti-Addis Abeba en stratégie sont aujourd’hui cours de construction. La pose de rails sur le tronçon réelles à travers le nombre djiboutien Galilée-Nagad a d’emplois directs et indirects (04.01.2015 – La Nation) donc bel et bien commencé. induits et l’accroissement des Pour la République de Djibouti, activités pour les entreprises Outre le chef de l’Etat, le ce projet figure parmi les nationales. ministre de l’Equipement et des priorités nationales qui sont transports, Moussa Ahmed d’investir massivement dans les Les impacts positifs sur Hassan, le ministre des Affaires infrastructures de transport, à l’économie nationale vont se étrangères, Mahmoud Ali travers la construction de poursuivre et se renforcer et Youssouf, le ministre de la nouveaux ports, de nouvelles changer d’une manière très Communication, M. Ali Hassan routes internationales, de deux significative les performances Bahdon, l’ambassadeur nouvelles lignes de chemins de de l’économie Djiboutienne. d’Ethiopie, M. Dedefo et fer électriques, d’un nouvel aéroport international, etc.
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AFRICA
PIÙ AFRICA ANCHE PER PAPA FRANCESCO, TRE NUOVI CARDINALI SONO AFRICANI
AFRICA – L’Africa potrà Verde (Arcipelago di Capo regione travagliata dalla contare su tre nuovi Verde) e monsignor violenza”. cardinali, dopo l’annuncio Berhaneyesus Demerew I 15 nuovi cardinali elettori, dato ieri da Papa Francesco Souraphiel C.M., arcivescovo di annunciati da Papa Francesco che al termine dell’Angelus Addis Abeba (Etiopia); all’Angelus, sono mons. ha nominato venti cardinale emerito è stato Dominique Mamberti, cardinali, 15 dei quali nominato monsignor Júlio arcivescovo titolare di Sagona, elettori e cinque emeriti. I Duarte Langa, vescovo emerito prefetto del Supremo Tribunale nuovi porporati riceveranno di Xai-Xai, in Mozambico. della Segnatura Apostolica; la berretta rossa nel mons. Manuel José Macario do Concistoro del 14 febbraio: Evidente – spiega in una nota Nascimento Clemente, 15 tra loro sono elettori e padre Lombardi, direttore della Patriarca di Lisbona “manifestano – ha spiegato Sala Stampa vaticana – il (Portogallo); mons. il Papa – l’inscindibile criterio che ha guidato il Papa Berhaneyesus Demerew legame fra la Chiesa di nella scelta dei nuovi cardinali, Souraphiel C.M., arcivescovo di Roma e le Chiese quello dell’universalità: tra Addis Abeba (Etiopia); mons. particolari presenti nel elettori ed emeriti, infatti, sono John Atcherley Dew, mondo”. Cinque, invece, i 18 i Paesi del mondo arcivescovo di Wellington titolari emeriti, quindi non rappresentati. Non solo: tra le (Nuova Zelanda); mons. elettori, nominati dal 14 nazioni di provenienza degli Edoardo Menichelli, arcivescovo Pontefice perché “si sono elettori, 6 non avevano un di Ancona-Osimo (Italia); distinti per la loro carità cardinale o non lo avevano mai mons. Pierre Nguyên Văn pastorale nel servizio alla avuto, come Capo Verde, Nhon, arcivescovo di Hà Nôi Santa Sede e alla Chiesa”. Tonga o Myanmar, oppure si (Viêt Nam); mons. Alberto tratta “di comunità ecclesiali Suàrez Inda, arcivescovo di (05.01.2015 – Africa e piccole o in situazioni di Morelia (Messico); mons. Affari) minoranza”. La diocesi di Charles Maung Bo S.D.B., Santiago de Cabo Verde, ad arcivescovo di Yangon Per l’Africa sono stati nominati esempio, “è una delle più (Myanmar); mons. Francis cardinali elettori, monsignor antiche diocesi africane”, Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij, Arlindo Gomes Furtado, mentre quella di Morelia in arcivescovo di Bangkok vescovo di Santiago de Cabo Messico si trova “in una (Tailandia); mons. Francesco
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Montenegro, arcivescovo di vescovo di Santiago de Cabo arcivescovo titolare di Nova, Agrigento (Italia); mons. Daniel Verde (Arcipelago di Capo pro-penitenziere maggiore Fernando Sturla Berhouet, Verde); mons. Soane Patita emerito; mons. Karl-Joseph S.D.B., arcivescovo di Paini Mafi, vescovo di Tonga Rauber, arcivescovo titolare di Montevideo (Uruguay); mons. (Isole di Tonga). Giubalziana, Nunzio Apostolico; Ricardo Blázquez Pérez, mons. Luis Héctor Villalba, arcivescovo di Vallodolid I cinque emeriti sono: mons. arcivescovo emerito di (Spagna); mons. José Luis José de Jesús Pimiento Tucumán, in Argentina; e Lacunza Maestrojuán, O.A.R., Rodriguez, arcivescovo emerito mons. Júlio Duarte Langa, vescovo di David (Panamá); di Manizales, in Colombia; vescovo emerito di Xai-Xai, in mons. Arlindo Gomes Furtado, mons. Luigi De Magistris, Mozambico.
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