Elizabeth Nigussie
Name: Elizabeth Nigussie
Education: Advanced Diploma in General Mechanics
Company name: LC Aluminum Works
Title: Founder
Founded in: 2015
What it does: Aluminum works
Hq: Addis Ababa around Yeka Abado
Number of Employees: 2
Startup capital: 0
Current Capital: Confidential
Reason for starting the Business: Educational background and experience
The biggest perk of ownership: Always being loyal to my customers
Biggest strength: Loyalty to my customers
Biggest challenge: Staffing
Plan: To open an aluminum factory
First career: Employee at a private company
Most interested in meeting: Haile GebreSilassie
Most admired person: My sister
Stress reducer: Praying
Favorite past time: Time with family
Favorite book: Dertogada
Favorite destination: Bahir-dar
Favorite automobile: Ford
Good data helps African countries to make best development policy decisions
The eighth meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa will be held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from 24-28 October 2022 under the theme “Modernizing data ecosystems in Africa to support regional Integration”.
Data and statistics are the lifeblood of development planning. Reliable statistics and analysis boost effective implementation of development programmes to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Accurate, high quality, timely, disaggregated and accessible data enhances development planning by providing useful and understandable information critical in knowing the development metrics of a country. Owing to lack of capacity and poor investment, many countries in Africa are challenged by inadequate data and insufficient statistical analysis to make data driven policy decisions to support social and economic development.
The eighth meeting of the Statistical Commission for Africa will bring participants from across Africa including Heads of national statistical offices, statisticians, geoinformation system experts, information and communications technology experts, academia, research institutions, regional and international development partners as well as observers from intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations.
Djibouti expresses desire to import wheat from Ethiopia
When Ethiopia starts exporting wheat to the foreign market, Djibouti will be the first buyer country, Djibouti’s Minister of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries, Livestock, and Marine Resources, Mohammed Ahmed Awaleh said.
Ethiopia and Djibouti have cordial relations and long-standing friendship. The two countries have strong cooperation at the leadership level, people-to-people, and economic as well as in regional and international forums.
The countries have been extensively promoting regional integration through the Ethio-Djibouti railway, renewable energy infrastructure, road and import and export trade.
Djibouti’s Minister of Agriculture, Water, Fisheries, Livestock, and Marine Resources, Mohammed Ahmed Awaleh said that Ethiopia has a major role in facilitating fruit production and clean drinking water supply for Djibouti in the agricultural sector.
He also mentioned that recently, Ethiopia has donated saplings of food and forestry to Djibouti as part of its Green Legacy initiative with a view to ensuring food security and tackle climate change.
