Category: Markets
Ethiopia: Africa’s Biggest Power Plant by 2015
Addis Ababa (HAN) March 20th 2014 – William Davison in Addis Ababa- Ethiopia will begin generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant, the government said. The sale of 7.1 billion birr ($367 million) of bonds over the past three years to domestic investors, has contributed to the 27 billion…
The future KFC chicken outlets has reasons to move into Ethiopia
HARAR (HAN) March 17th, 2014 – Ethiopia is a largely agricultural nation of 94 million people that endures frequent droughts and famine, with a per-capita income of a bit more than $100 per month. Is it ready for KFC chicken outlets? The future KFC in Ethiopia has reasons to be optimistic: It already operates in…
The Men Who Built Somalia Series: Ahmed Nur Ali Jim’ale
By Opinion, Somali current – I am embarking on an interesting project. I invite you to come along. The goal of this project is to write biography of the men who built Somali Corporations. These are entrepreneur’s, innovators, risk takers, dreamers, and visionaries that in spite of the adversities managed to found and run successful…
The New Somalia Global Initiative launched
The United Global initiative, favored for decades by IGAD2020 intellectuals Online Forum, might happen eventually — not because of theories, but rather because of a common interest in political ethnicity reform and regional IGAD economic integration, a panel of IGAD2020 regional security Watch experts said recently. “A new era is dawning for Somalia — with…