GreenPath Food, an Ethiopian organic food company which partners with smallholder farmers to source fresh, nutritious food grown using sustainable, organic methods that benefit the environment while significantly increasing farm yields and incomes has received an undisclosed seed funding from Engineers Without Borders Canada (EWB), an early-stage investor in innovative, ...
Global early-stage startups competition has announced the 11 startups that will pitch at its event in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Sunday, September 16th at Ice Addis, with the winner destined to represent Ethiopia at the global event in Switzerland. The 11 startups that are selected to participate at the ...
Founded by Amadou Daffe from Senegal, Hiruy Amanuel from Ethiopia and Ali Kone from Mali, Gebeya is the latest freelance IT talent marketplace seeking to connect trained ICT talent to clients online on their platform. Gebeya also has a training centre where those who wish to sharpen their IT skills ...
Pivot East, East Africa’s mobile startups pitching competition held annually in June or July since 2011 has been moved to November this year and more details about the date change will be communicated in due time m:lab's East Africa lead told TechMoran. The m:lab East Africa initiative aims to ...
With a crowdfunding target of $26000 Mitu Yilma wants to build Addis Ideas, a mobile application that crowd sources African development ideas from African nationals and the African diaspora and we can help him do it by donating to his initiative NOW. Yilma and his business partner Tia are building the ...
A huge part of the unbanked population in Ethiopia is set to benefit from mobile money services being launched by banks and micro finance firms and which let customers make payments, receive money via mobile phones that are linked to their bank account,. Reuters reports that this is technology that ...
Ethiopia is Africa’s 2nd largest (and the world’s 5th largest) cut flower exporter and is experiencing strong growth - since 2001, Ethiopia’s cut flower industry has grown by 147,000% - growing from US$145k to US$230M. Kenya is Africa’s largest (and the world’s 4th largest) exporter of cut flowers with exports of US$645M in ...
Africa’s infrastructure development is gaining momentum following strong support and commitment from African governments and pan-African organizations including the African Development Bank. According to KPMG, Africa’s top 6 infrastructure projects are among the world’s top 100, based on their level of innovation and sustainability, among other criteria. Among the 6 ...
Ethiopia is planning to launch medium research satellite in the next five years. To this effect, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed on Sunday between Finland based Space Technology and Science Group (STSG) and the Entoto Observatory and Research Center (EORC). The primary goal of the agreement is to create, develop ...
Motivated to supply 2000 ATMs and 4000 PoSs in Ethiopia, the Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has shortlisted two companies, M2M, a Moroccan company and the other an Ethiopian company SS Communication (SSC). IT companies had earlier responded to Bank's initial tender for the supply of the ATMs and eight for the ...
Max Robinson is now Dow Chemical Company’s first General Manager for Dow Ethiopia, effective from 7th of July 2014. Max will report to Ahmed Dualeh, general manager for Dow East Africa, based in Nairobi, Kenya. Ross McLean, President Dow Sub-Saharan Africa: “I am very excited about Max’s appointment. It is anotherproof ...
Ethiopia Sunday signed an $800-million telecommunications network expansion deal with ZTE in a move to increase mobile phone penetration and 3G internet access in Ethiopia and launch 4G broadband internet Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's capital city. The agreement starts off a $1.6 billion deal shared by ZTE and Huawei, both telecoms ...
