At the Forum prepared by the African Leadership Excellence Academy, on the occasion of the AU Summit, PM Abiy Ahmed stressed the need for Pan-Africanism to flourish as an idea of cooperative integration, global competitiveness and peaceful coexistence.
“Reinvigorating and recalibrating Pan-Africanism requires us to disrupt the status quo and leap into the future. Potentials need to change into products. Our minds need to transform our lands. We need to create clean and green environments.”
Zero-tariff treatment to 98 percent of taxable items originating from Ethiopia
The new step is conducive to materializing the spirit of China-Africa friendship and cooperation, helping the least developed countries accelerates their development, and building an open global economy, the commission said.
China will move further to gradually expand such treatment to all the least developed countries that have established diplomatic ties with China.
Zhao Zhiyuan, Ambassador of China to Ethiopia, said that his country will offer zero-tariff treatment to 98 percent of the tariff line, with 8804 items of products, originating from Ethiopia.
“This preferential treatment will help boost Ethiopian exports to China, bring more benefits to Ethiopian people and further strengthen the friendship between the two peoples,” said Ambassador Zhao on his twitter post. It was learnt that recently Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Shide signed the exchange of letters with Zhao Zhiyuan, Ambassador of China to Ethiopia on spare parts assistance from China to Ethiopia for Addis Ababa Light Rail Transit.
Mayor Adanech Abiebie received Ambassador of Brazil to Ethiopia, Jandra Ferrer Dossantos at her office
In their discussion, they discussed the ways in which Addis Ababa can work together with Brazilian cities in tourism, development of agriculture and, in a special way, school meals.
Mayor Adanech expressed her gratitude for the warm welcome and recognition given to him at the Milan Forty Food Policy entry program where our city was awarded.
There can be no renewal of education without addressing the root causes of social exclusion:
President Sahle-Work Zewde
To transform education, more of the same will not do. Some of our difficulties stem from how we educate. It is not only about strengthening political commitment to education in national development policies or even to increase financing, as important as that is. We need a different education. To transform the future, we need to renew education. We need to rethink our educational models and approaches.
Educational exclusion is comprised of a web of exclusions where poverty is compounded by a range of factors of discrimination linked to gender, to residence, to minority status. Past injustices need to be addressed and corrected
The Ethiopian Herald 26 February 2023
