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Ethiopia: Elily’s Smart Car Parking Start Operation
Elily Hotel, one of the private hotels in Ethiopia, opened its 7 story smart parking building for customers. The building, that has the capacity to park around 254 vehicles at a time, is currently giving only partial service.
According to Gemshu Beyene, owner of the 5 star hotel, the building is part of the large scale expansion of the Hotel is undertaking which will cost the hotel 800 million Birr.
The structure is said to address one of the capital city’s problems, street parking.
Elily’s smart car building will serve 3 different types of customers for whom the parking structure will issue different cards. “A monthly parking card is issued for permanent clients,” said Bizuwerk Mulugeta, information technology manager at Elilly . “Customers can extend the duration as they wish and there is no fixed price.”
Walk in customers on the other hand would be given a temporary card and they were charged 10 Birr per hour, BIrzuwerk explained.
“People who come for meetings and other events will be able to use the parking as part of their event package,” said Bizuwerk.
Currently the service is being given by cashier and other related staff aas the scanning machine is being imported and is currently at Port of Djibouti.
Source: Fortune

Ethiopia: 290 Million Quintals Harvested in Belg
Central Statistical Agency (CSA) disclosed Ethiopia will be able to collect 290 million quintals of yield for the Meher season. This is excluding harvest from belg season, small scale irrigation and commercial farming.
The harvest surpassed last year’s by 23.6 million quintals, an 8.86 percent increase, Amare Legese, Deputy Director-General of Statistics Studies and Census Sector, explained.
According to Ethiopian News Agency, the total land cultivated is 12.6 million hectares of land.
Favorable weather conditions, improved seed and cultural practices and application of fertilizers are said to be among the reasons for the increase in harvest.
Source: Ethiopian News Agency

USAID set to consolidate urban health care support to Ethiopia
The efficient Urban Health Extension Program (UHEP) in Ethiopia is encouraging USAID to further consolidate its assistance with a view to creating well-functioning urban health system.
In an exclusive interview with The Ethiopian Herald BethAnne Moscow, USAID Ethiopia Chief Health Officer, said USAID is extending supports in terms of creating skilled extension workers and offering central health commodities.
“USAID is working very closely with Ministry of Health (MoH) in this regard for it has a fantastic and easy to implement Health Sector Transformation Plan,” she said.
The UHEP support remains fundamental for the country as there is a boom in urban population which in turn puts pressure on health care systems, she said.
Noting that USAID has been partnering in UHEP since 2009, the chief health officer expressed conviction as their involvement would continue aiming to success the noble goal of creating healthy and productive urban population.
She also took the opportunity to laud Ethiopia's health extension workers in general for they strongly believe in the program and help the community to build trust in the health centers through providing quality services.
In addition to the training offered to 2,000 Urban Health Extension Workers (UHEW), USAID has worked with MoH in delivering a whole range of comprehensive training programs in areas such as family planning, maternal health, child health, infant care, TB, water and sanitation, BethAnne mentioned.
The trainings created a huge difference in skills and knowledge of the UHEW, and made them confident in offering services.
Moreover, MoH and USAID joint efforts over the past decade helped the country to cut child mortality by two-thirds, according to her.
Besides, she said, their intervention reduced TB and malarial incidence as well as HIV and AIDS. USAID invested about 2.2 billion USD in the health sector over the past decade, she added.

NVI to build pharmaceuticals plant to eradicate external parasites in beef cattle

The National Veterinary Institute (NVI) of Ethiopia is to build a pharmaceuticals manufacturing plant at Bishoftu town, 45km far from Addis Ababa, a cost of 97 million birr.

The plant will produce more than 12 types of medicines that would be used to eradicate external parasites in beef cattle and pack animals.

The construction of the plant will be finalized within one year.

The National Veterinary Institute is the only veterinary vaccine production center in Ethiopia.