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DMP certified by ESLSE Port handles record unloading of bulk cargo

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DMP certified by ESLSE Port handles record unloading of bulk cargo

By our staff reporter

Doraleh Multipurpose Port (DMP)/Port of Djibouti SA (PDSA) received recognition from Ethiopian Shipping and Logistics Services Enterprise (ESLSE) for its performance on handling agricultural input and deliver it on time for farmers in Ethiopia.

On a ceremony held on October 15 in Addis Ababa, ESLSE has awarded a certificate of recognition for the port’s numerous performances at the end of the 2019/20 budget year that DMP/PDSA achieved.

During the ceremony Roba Megerssa, CEO of ESLSE, presented a certificate of merit to Djama Ibrahim Darar, Director General of Ports PDSA /DMP in the presence of the President of the Ports and Free Zones Authority Aboubakar Omah Hadi, Minister of Finance Ahmed Shide, Minister of Agriculture Omer Hussein, officials from Ministry of Transport and all the main players in the logistics chain, transit companies, carriers, banks and other.

“Indeed, DMP, an essential link in the transit of bulk goods, has made it possible to deliver strategic products intended for Ethiopian farmers on time, with a record of 20,000 metric tons of products unloaded per day and per ship,” the port facility states.

The strategic product mainly fertilizer reached farmers before the beginning of the past agriculture period with tuff and combined effort of ports in Djibouti and Ethiopian side.

DMP, which also connected with the electric railway system that stretched up to the heart of Ethiopia, is the modern ever multipurpose port in the region with massive capacity of port handling.

Record unloading

The day after the ESL certificate was handed over, the Commercial Director Ms Habon Abdourahman has reported again a new milestone of a new discharge of bulk cargo from a WFP vessel called MV ATA-M. The Port recorded a new record performance, unmatched in our entire region, estimated at 21,567 mt in 24 hours.

According to the information Capital obtained from DMP, on October 16 the port managed to unload a bulk cargo of wheat with record performance per day.

“Indeed this complex, recorded a new record of unloading of 21, 567 metric tons of wheat in one day from a vessel chartered by WFP MV ATA-M transporting 40,000 metric tons of bulk wheat,” the statement said.

The unloading fully accomplished within two and half days from the vessel due to fast operation conducted with record performance, according DMP information.

“This performance obviously demonstrates the will of the management of this complex operation, combined with the efforts of the managerial and an operational team of DMP / PDSA,” the operator says adding, “the DMP/PDSA port platform continues to increase its dynamism in the logistics and transport sector.”

According to the information that the port sent to Capital, similar fast operation will be undertaken for other coming vessels with bulk cargo.

Resumption of ferry activities

In related development the PDSA port equipped with the latest generation floating dock with a lifting capacity of 1,750 tons provides upkeep and maintenance for boats in Djibouti but also in the region.

To this end, the engineers of the Marine Services Department Directorate have finalized the maintenance work on the main ferry Mohamed Bourhan Kassim by refurbishing the submerged structure of the ferry to resume its activities in complete safety.

During the Covid-19 period the boat was stationary and had not sailed for several months, now because of the advanced services of the PDSA, the vessel flying the Djiboutian flag resumes the crossing of the Gulf and ensure the movement of goods and people in all serenity.

Ship maintenance skill

The Port of Djibouti has implemented an aggressive marketing strategy aimed at becoming the center of excellence in terms of ship repair in the region. In this regard, PDSA, constantly selling its marine services to the countries of the region, dispatched to the Port of Mogadishu, from October 11 to 15, 2020, a team of engineers from Maritime Service Department composed of electricians, mechanics and welders specializing in marine structures for a technical diagnosis of their naval equipment.

This important visit resulted in an agreement in principle on technical assistance in accordance with the win-win strategy and a request for immediate repair of three of their tugs.

The French navy is also convinced of the expertise and professionalism of the PDSA in terms of naval repair, has now partnered and benefited since the beginning of October 2020 from a refurbishment of their main landing building.

IMF predicts a further downhill GDP growth

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IMF predicts a further downhill GDP growth

Ethiopia’s real GDP growth has dropped from the previous estimation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Late this week, IMF published a Regional Economic Outlook of Sub Saharan Africa under the title, ‘A Difficult Road to Recovery.’ This publication highlights how African countries’ economies have been hit severely by the outbreak of the global pandemic.

The report shows that the economic growth of African countries in 2020 has significantly dropped because of the outbreak and also estimates a worse forecast than the one published in April, early this year.

Regarding economic growth for the year, very few countries have had positive improvements, the rest are below zero whilst the majority are in negative performance.

According to the IMF report, in the budget year that ended in July 7, 2020, the Ethiopian economic growth has shown a massive drop in comparison to the preceding year’s forecast by IMF.

The report officially published on Thursday October 22 indicated that the economic growth of Ethiopia in 2020 is 1.9 percent. However the Ethiopian government stated that the growth was 6.1 for the said year.

It has also forecasted the growth will be zero in 2021, while the previous IMF forecast published in relation with the joint spring meeting of the World Bank and IMF with member countries in April 2020 Ethiopia’s read GDP growth in 2020 was expected to be 3.2 percent.

The IMF Regional Economic Outlook published in October 2019, which was before the COVID 19 outbreak forecasted that the country’s real GDP growth will stand at 7.2 percent in 2020, which seems far from the case now.

According to the IMF April projection in the sub-continent, the biggest economic growth was set to be registered by South Sudan, Benin, Uganda and Rwanda.

The latest report indicated that South Sudan’s real GDP growth is at the top standing at 4.1 percent followed by Benin and Rwanda with 2 percent growth, each.

The other biggest growth registered in the period is the performance of Tanzania and Cote d’Ivoire with 1.9 and 1.8 percentages respectively.

Tourist based economies like Mauritius and Seychelles have been seriously affected by the pandemic. The two countries economic growth has dropped by negative to -14.2 and -13.8 percentages respectively.

Early this week, the Ethiopian government disclosed that the economic growth for the past budget year stood at 6.1 percent, which is quite a stretch in comparison with the IMF estimation.

The report indicated that Ethiopia’s debt has shown decrement compared with the 2019 rate. Compared with the GDP, the government total debt is 56.1 percent that was 57.6 percent in 2019, IMF’s latest economic outlook indicated.

Unlike the report of the Ethiopian government, the external debt estimation that IMF indicated is 29.2 percent in 2020 with the increment compared with the 2019 percentage that was 28.5 percent.

The government argued that the external public debt in the past budget year, which closed in June 30, was USD 28.65 billion with about 27 percent of the GDP. According to Ministry of Finance data, the external debt in the budget year that ended in 2019 was 27 percent of the GDP.

On the other hand the country foreign reserve shall cover 2.1 months of import of goods and services. The reserve month coverage stood at 2.2 months in the budget year that ended 2019, while IMF forecasted that it will increase to 2.7 months in 2021.

The export of the country has increased in the past budget year compared with the preceding period, and the performance of the first three months of this budget year has climbed by 15 percent compared with the same period of the last budget year which stood at USD 832 million.

IMF in its report said that the late arrival of the pandemic in Ethiopia has spread the shock into the third quarter of 2020, and that the rural and subsistence-based agricultural sector has been relatively isolated whilst the tourism and hospitality services have been hit very hard.

“The recovery is expected to start gradually in the fourth quarter of 2020, with growth returning to pre-crisis rates by 2022,” it added.

In general IMF said that the sub continent current outlook for 2020–21 is broadly unchanged from the June update, with activity in 2020 projected to contract by 3.0 percent, which is still the worst outcome on record. This represents a drop in real per capita income of 5.3 percent, bringing per capita incomes back to 2013 levels. For 2021, regional growth should recover modestly to 3.1 percent.

Joint WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY statement on World Polio Day

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Joint WHO-UNICEF-ROTARY statement on World Polio Day

WHO, UNICEF and ROTARY reaffirm their commitment to sustain Africa’s polio-free status by ensuring Ethiopia stays polio-free

Addis Ababa, 24 October 2020 – Today as the world commemorates World Polio Day, we, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and ROTARY, reaffirm our commitment to continue working with the Government of Ethiopia to ensure that Ethiopia stays polio free so we can maintain the success achieved in certification of the WHO African Region as free of wild poliovirus (WPV).

On 25 August 2020, the independent Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for Polio Eradication officially declared that the WHO African Region that constitutes 47 member states is free of wild poliovirus (WPV).

Prior to 1996 when the “Kick Polio Out of Africa!” campaign commenced, wild poliovirus used to paralyze about 75,000 children annually in the African continent. However, today, it has been four years since Africa reported a poliomyelitis case caused by wild poliovirus. This is a historic milestone for Africa.

In Ethiopia, the last indigenous wild poliovirus case was reported in 2001. However, imported WPV cases were detected along the years, with the last case detected on 5 January 2014. Years of aggressive surveillance and response through reactive and preventive mass immunization campaigns, including in hard-to-reach areas, together with cross-border collaboration ensured that no cases were recorded after 2014.

This achievement was gained through the leadership of the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health, commitment of frontline workers and generous support of polio partners such as WHO, UNICEF, ROTARY, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, USAID, CCRDA/ CORE Group and other immunizations partners.

As we commemorate World Polio Day 2020, we acknowledge that global eradication of wild poliovirus hasn’t yet been achieved and hence the risk of importation and an ensuing outbreak remains a challenge. We therefore underscore the need to remain vigilant, and to strengthen routine immunization and disease surveillance in order to ensure Ethiopia and neighboring countries remain polio-free until the day that we can come as one global community to celebrate eradication of the virus from the face of the Earth.

The theme for this year’s World Polio Day in Ethiopia is “Take Action, Eradicate the Disease Forever!” To achieve this ambitious goal, we need to ensure that every child in under-immunized communities is vaccinated – aiming to leave not a single child behind – and strengthen disease surveillance for early detection and response.

While we celebrate Ethiopia’s wild-poliovirus-free status and the Africa Region’s certification as wild poliovirus free, we remain committed to continuing our joint polio eradication efforts in order to sustain this incredible achievement, and we call on the Government of Ethiopia and our immunization partners to renew their commitment until polio is eradicated worldwide.

World Polio Day 2020: ‘Take Action! Eradicate A Disease Forever!

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World Polio Day 2020: ‘Take Action! Eradicate A Disease Forever!

To mark World Polio Day 2020 the Ministry of Health, World Health Organization, UNICEF, Rotary, Gates Foundation, and Core Group came together to jointly reaffirm their commitment in the fight against polio, ‘that no child anywhere in the world suffers from this completely preventable disease’.

World Polio Day commemoration was organized on October 24 at Elilly Hotel with Global Polio Eradication Initiative partners and allies for the 8th time in Ethiopia, under the theme ‘Take Action. Eradicate A Disease Forever!’

At the event, Minister of Health, Dr. Lia Tadesse said that this year’s celebration coincides with the achievement where Africa is declared free of the wild polio virus. “But, the polio virus is still a threat to different parts of Africa, we should unite to fight this virus,” Lia added.

“We want everyone to become fully covered with vaccinations, and we are using consecutive campaigns and surveillance systems to increase our immunization coverage. What matters is not only the coverage but the quality as well,” she said. “The government is working hard to sustain the achievements in polio virus eradication not only from Ethiopia but from the region as well.”

During the ceremony Rotary Ethiopia recognized Dr. Lia Tadesse, with the Paul Harris Fellow for her outstanding contribution exemplifying the highest ideal in Rotary. The Paul Harris fellowship award is a recognition bestowed on a person who has done something significant for others and/or service to the club putting themself in the category of “Service Above Self”.

Dr Dereje Duguma State Minister of Health in his keynote address said that the World Polio Day celebration offers a unique opportunity to highlight the importance of continuous routine immunization amidst the COVID 19 outbreak.

Dr. Filimona Bisrat of CCRDA/Core Group Representative on his part congratulated all who were part of the fight to free the African Region from wild polio virus. “This shows that eradication is possible and achievable with dedication, partnership and support from partners and government,” he said.

He further added that all should continue focusing on the fight against polio. “The global pandemic affected the polio campaign, so everyone should focus on fighting polio starting from parents to policy makers,” he added.

National Polio Plus Committee Chair Rtn Teguest Yilma on her part, expressed gratitude for the firm commitment of Ethiopia in polio eradication and called upon the government to sustain its achievements. “Rotary International has been working with the government of Ethiopia to make the country free from polio, and is committed to continue supporting Ethiopia’s Polio eradication efforts until Polio is completely eliminated from the world.”

“A win against Polio is a win for global health,” she added.

A panel discussion on ‘COVID – 19 Impact on routine immunization and polio eradication, and COVID 19 and its vaccine’, was part of the WPD celebration with high profile panelists that include Dr Meseret Zelalem, Director of Maternal, Child Health, Youth Adolescent and Nutrition Directorate at MOH, Dr Muluken Yohannes, special Advisor to the Minister of Health, Dr Eshetu Wassie, Polio focal point and vaccine preventable diseases surveillance program coordinator with WHO. The panel was moderated by Professor Bogale Worku, National Polio Certification Committee Chairperson.

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