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The Addis Ababa City Corridor Project, also known as Smart City Project, [1] is an ongoing urban planning project in the city of Addis Ababa initiated by the Addis Ababa City Administration in December 2022 to upgrade key routes and improve connectivity among the corridors. Due in 2025, the project aims to expand metropolis that incorporates ...
Due to favorable conditions in Ethiopia (water power, wind power, photovoltaics, geothermal energy) for power generation, the country avoids exploiting and importing fossil fuels as much as possible. As Ethiopia is a quickly developing country, the demand for electricity grows by 30% each year. [1]
10 January – Ethiopia launches its first stock exchange since the imperial period of Haile Selassie. [3] [4] 11 January – Somali president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud makes a surprise visit to Ethiopia following their peace agreement in Ankara. [5] [6]
Gorgora Project (Amharic: ጎርጎራ ፕሮጀክት) is a national project initiated by the Ethiopian government "Dine for Nation" initiatives under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on 20 August 2020. The project took place in Gorgora town in Amhara Region with 4.2 billion birr expenditure along with sister projects in Wenchi and Koysha .
25 December – The Ethiopian National Defense Force closes the country's border with Somalia following heavy fighting in rural areas of Harshin, Fafan Zone, between Ethiopia's Somali regional forces and local clan militias after the killing of a local security chief and his bodyguards. Hundreds of people, including children, flee from their homes.
Ethiopia has significant natural resources that could make an important contribution to future developments in science and technology. For example, geothermal energy could soon be an important source of electricity nationally, [ 9 ] [ 10 ] complementing the hydropower potential of the country. [ 11 ]
To see Ethiopia entrench the capacities which enable rapid learning, adaptation and utilization of effective foreign technologies by the year 2022/23. It has a mission of coordinating, encouraging and supporting science and technology activities that realize the country's social and economic developments
In Ethiopia, the Internet penetration rate is 25% as of January 2022, and it is currently attempting a broad expansion of access throughout the country. [1] These efforts have been hampered by the largely rural makeup of the Ethiopian population and the government's refusal to permit any privatization of the telecommunications market. [1]