Ethiopia

Ato Mekuria Haile, Minister of Urban Development and Housing

Ato Mekuria Haile, Minister of Urban Development and Housing, provides an exclusive insight into the country’s social, economic and human resources development, and discusses why investors should take a closer look at Ethiopia.

Christine Lagarde said last year at the IMF’s Africa Rising conference in Maputo that Africa has three challenges: build infrastructure, build institutions, and build people. Please discuss Ethiopia’s efforts in this regard and how your Ministry has a key role in it.

I think this is a very critical point for any developing country. In the case of Ethiopia, at the same time as we were planning the strategy we have to make sure that our plan gets implemented. The critical point of this schedule was capacity building and the implementation of capacity building plan. So, at the same time as we talk about capacity building we are talking about our human resources, about the systems development and the functional structure in place. This is because it is the sum of these three issues that gives you an institution implementation capacity definition.

Africa: Making Things Happen at the Bank - 'Not a Talk Shop' - Akin Adesina

Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is focusing on five areas to achieve the African and world goals for a prosperous continent since becoming president of the African Development Bank - Africa's major public financial institution in September 2015. He was a keynote speaker at this month's Corporate Council on Africa's U.S.- Africa Business Summit in Washington D.C. and moderated a lively panel with five African government ministers. He as well received the Gene White Lifetime Succcess Award from the World Child Nutrition Foundation. This week, he was named the 2017 recipient of the World Food Prize, a prestigious honor that includes a $250,000 award. In an interview in Washington, DC, Adesina discussed the Development Bank's ambitious schedule and his vision for attracting the increase capital Africa needs. Posting questions for AllAfrica was Noluthando Crockett-Ntonga.

Ethio telecom

Ethiopia has had an increasing GDP of extra than 10% for extra than 5 years now, which is foreseen to be the third-most dynamic increase after China and India till 2016. How do you explain this undergoing dynamic and how do you explain Ethiopia's increase?

I think there is a very targeted and strong investment policy, which we as well find in the telecoms industry, because Ethiopia had fallen back regarding telecoms but they are catching up at a great pace.

Outlook for 2015-17

2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the All-round Cooperative Partnership between China and Ethiopia.

The year 2013 marked the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the All-round Cooperative Partnership between the People's Republic of China and the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. China-Ethiopia relations continued to grow from strength to strength and cooperation in various areas was deepened.

The two nations had frequent high-level exchanges and further deepened their political mutual trust. On 28 March, President Xi Jinping met with Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Dessalegn on the sidelines of the fifth BRICS Summit in Durban, South Africa.

Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa, is the capital city of Ethiopia. It is the largest city in Ethiopia, with a population of 3,384,569 according to the 2007 population census. This datum has been increased from the originally published 2,738,248 figure and appears possibly largely underestimated still.