Ethiopia Business News

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2merkato.com has started providing business news relevant to the Ethiopian business community. The news section is believed to provide businesses with brief, accurate and up-to-date information on Ethiopian business happenings.

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Buying trade leads for and from the Ethiopian market have been reintroduced on the popular Ethiopian business portal www.2merkato.com

In its week program of "movers & shakers of Africa", Channel K24, "Capital Talk" presents the story behind DotConnectAfrica and it's successful initiation of the ".africa " domain name.

2merkato has added a section on startup regulations, procedures and guides on business in Ethiopia that might help potential business starters in following regaultions and procedures so that they could avoid any trouble later.

Import trade to Ethiopia has been growing and suppliers from all over the world, especially those from India, Cina, and Turkey, want to supply to Ethiopian importers. 2merkato.com has, therefore, added a foreign suppliers section in its directory.

The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union heads of state and Government that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, under the theme Information Communication Technology from 25 Jan to 2 Feb 2010 gave endorsement to the “.Africa” domain name.

DotConnectAfrica is invited to present the .africa project and its benefits to Regional Integration and Business community, at the regional top banking conference, AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA, Nairobi, 24-25 February 2010.

The 14th Ordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State & Government that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 25 Jan to 2 Feb 2010, under the theme Information Communications Technology (ICT) gave endorsement to the “.Africa” domain name.

eCom Advertising® has joined forces with local realtors and published LiveInEthiopia.com with the aim of providing reliable, up-to-date and correct information for those who seek to buy, sell and rent houses, offices and properties in Ethiopia.

We have published a modern Ethiopian Business Directory that can be viewed freely at 2merkato.com. There five sections: Agents in Ethiopia, Exporters in Ethiopia, Importers in Ethiopia, Manufacturers in Ethiopia and Service Providers in Ethiopia.

We have published free information on 2merkato.com about Ethiopian Regulations and Procedures of Commercial Registration and Business Licensing in Ethiopia.

We have published free information on 2merkato.com about Ethiopian Tax system, Ethiopian Tax regulations and procedures in Ethiopia (on VAT, TOT, income tax, withholding tax, excise tax) and where to pay your Tax in Ethiopia.

We have published free information on Ethiopian Customs, Ethiopian Customs regulations and procedures, Customs tariff, HS code and Ethiopian Revenue and Customs Authority on www.2merkato.com.

We have published free information on Ethiopian export, Ethiopian export regulations and procedures, payment methods on www.2merkato.com.

We have published free information on Ethiopian import, Ethiopian import regulations and procedures, payment methods on www.2merkato.com.

2merkato.com has gone one step further in meeting the demands of its customers. We have started a, Ethiopian tender alert system by which a client can log in for free and choose which tender notices to receive in his/her inbox

What does one need to do to invest in Ethiopia? What is the required documentation? What are the regulation for foreigners and natives? What are the attractive investment areas? What's the tax rate like? All these are answered on 2merkato.com.

If a businessperson wants to do business with Ethiopian companies, 2merkato.com's business directory is the right place to go

The DotConnectAfrica Organization based in Africa is applying for the delegation of Africa's identifier top level domain “.africa" from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers (ICANN) and make it available to the Pan African Community

Ezega.com, the premier online marketplace for Ethiopian homes, continues to provide users a convenient way to rent and sale their properties in Ethiopia. The largest of its kind in Ethiopia, Ezega.com posts various homes for sale and rent every week.

Private Messaging Service has been incorporated to 2merkato.com, and, the latest statistics from Google Analytics shows that there is a 75% growth in visits to the website and a 110% growth in page views compared to the start of 2009.

2Merkato can serve as a launch pad to start a business in Ethiopia because it attempts to answer the possible questions one asks before one starts business in Ethiopia.

eCom Advertising® announces the launch of its new website (www.2merkato.com) that has answers to questions that Ethiopian business community has about doing business in Ethiopia.

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi reaffirmed that Ethiopia's Renaissance is inevitable and the effort launched to realize Ethiopia's renaissance would be intensified.

The leading news this week was the rapid decline in the purchasing power of the Ethiopian Birr against the US Dollar. In just two weeks, the Ethiopian Birr declined against the US Dollar by as much as 11%.

As in many countries of the world, the Ethiopian real estate has been booming for much of this decade. In many areas, prices doubled and even tripled in a span of a few years. The highest appreciation in home prices occurred in the five-year period b