Commercial Information Agency Plc., the commercial and advertising agent for Addis Fortune newspaper, the largest economic and business weekly in the country, wants to fill the following vacancies with qualified applicants; https://www.facebook.com/job_opening/527515227966042/

While planning for bigger, more “attractive” zoos, such as the one recently opened inside #UnityPark, is their effect on wildlife heritage considered, asks Hanna Haile. http://ow.ly/Kfd650yMJV3

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VIDEO: Root Cause Remains Puzzle, Yet Cost of Living in #Ethiopia Keeps Rising http://ow.ly/mY6g50yS4Sk

Check out our Sunday edition out this morning in #AddisAbaba, #Ethiopia and available online at https://addisfortune.news

NEWS ALERT: Alibaba, Jack Ma First Batch Medical Aid Arrive in #Ethiopia https://addisfortune.news/news-alert/alibaba-jack-ma-first-batch-medical-aid-arrive-in-ethiopia/

The items will be distributed to hospitals and health centres across Ethiopia in the following two and three days, according to health officials.

Total expenditure, in Birr, by the federal government for the current fiscal year for the health sector. Sixteen percent of this is for recurrent spending.

The United States Agency for International Development announced $1.9 million of assistance to support #Ethiopia’s efforts in the fight against the spread of the Novel Coronavirus. http://ow.ly/DOa350ySJNT

The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization handed over the second of the six aircraft being sent to help #Ethiopia fight the desert #locust invasion. ow.ly/U6Ya50ySK82

IN-PICTURE: Volunteers in Piassa pour water for passengers of taxis to wash their hands. This has been in keeping with a hygiene campaign launched by the government of #Ethiopia in the past week in its effort to contain the spread of the Novel #Coronavirus.

The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank approved half a billion dollars of financing to support #Ethiopia's Homegrown Economic Reform Plan, which the government rolled out recently. http://ow.ly/SEqu50ySKog

UNICEF donated 60,000 bars of soap along with educational fliers about the Novel #Coronavirus to the Ministry of Labor & Social Affairs (MOSLA). http://ow.ly/SkBE50ySKyv

#Ethiopia and #Qatar have signed an 18-million-dollar grant agreement for the construction and furnishing of a specialized kidney treatment center in the capital. http://ow.ly/aocV50ySKBP

Tedros said during a media briefing last Wednesday, concerning the low number of reported #Coronavirus cases in sub-Saharan #Africa. On the day of the briefing, there were 233 cases in the region and four deaths.

What drives these professionals on the front line of the indispensable fight against #CoronaVirus in #Ethiopia? Our cover story has all the details. (Paywall) http://ow.ly/RjYC50ySVoU

Crop production growth in #Ethiopia has been declining for the past five years and marked the five-year low rate last year with three percent growth.

#Ethiopia’s flower industry, the second-largest exporter to #Europe, is on the brink of disaster with close to $11 million of losses incurred over the past two weeks. A total of 150,000 employees are at the edge of losing their jobs. http://ow.ly/LWo850ySVJ0

The information people are getting now about COVID-19 comes from everywhere and anywhere; this has created a lot of fear and desperation among people, writes Dawit Wondimagegn, chief executive director of Tikur Anbessa Hospital. http://ow.ly/tsC650ySTr1

Even with educated people, rumours and superstitions hold sway when it comes to testing times like this, a global disease outbreak, writes Eden Sahle. http://ow.ly/jUDf50ySS0p