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Lilit’s Handwoven-beautiful hand woven fashion items and home accesories.

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Lulit’s handwoven was founded in 2015 and Lulit Sahle-Michae is the owner and creative director of Lulit’s Handwoven clothing and accessory shop. After obtaining her fashion and marketing BA in London, and working at various fashion and textile companies in France (including Mahlia Kent in Paris where she discovered her passion for the art of […]

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Gaber Garment

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Jennet Lemma is the founder of Gaber Garment, a garment manufacturing social enterprise dedicated to empowering women in Ethiopia. A returnee from the United States, she repurposed her garment factory in April to produce face masks and protective gear. She retained jobs for all of her 75 employees, mostly women, despite the economic downturn caused

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Locally Assembled Electric Car given to PM Abiy Ahmed

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Athlete Haile Gebresselassie has presented the first electric car fully assembled by Hyundai Motors in Ethiopia to Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed today. Prime Minister Dr. Abiy Ahmed said the electric car present has came at a time when the government is working to transform Ethiopia’s greening and climate change resilient aspirations in to concrete

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Book; changing rural Ethiopia

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This book documents transformation in twenty rural communities in Ethiopia, that have changed almost beyond recognition, in complex ways with different implications for various people–men and women, adults and youth, rich and poor. The communities have become less rural through urbanisation and more outward-looking, including through labour migration. The local economies have become more diversified,

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Train link between Ethiopia and Sudan to be studied

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The African Development Bank has approved a $1.2 million grant to Ethiopia’s government to finance a feasibility study into a standard-gauge railway (SGR) link between Ethiopia and neighbouring Sudan. This grant from the African Development Fund, the Group’s concessional-rate lending arm, covers 35% of the total cost of the study, estimated at $3.4 million. The

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Tom Electric Vehicles: Pioneering the Electric Transport Sector

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Tom Electric Vehicles (TomE) was established with a vision to introduce and implement a green transport alternative in Ethiopia by 2030. With a private partnership model agreement with Nifas Silk Poly Technical College, TomE hopes to be one of the pioneers within the electric transport sector in the country through knowledge and skills transfer. TomE

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