borkenaEBC, Ethiopian state media, on Tuesday unveiled what it called a clandestine cement trading network in the outskirts of Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. In a recent directive, the government put a cap on the price of cement for a period of three months. A privately owned cement factory in the Oromia region of Ethiopia, which was expected to stabilize cement supply in the country, has been facing serious security challenges. In May 2018, Deep Kamara, manager of Dangote Cement Ethiopia, was killed along with two other Ethiopian staff in the area not far from the factory. The regional state described the perpetrators as “unknown gunmen.”Early this month, dozens of Dangote cement factory employees were kidnapped, on their way to the mining site in the Adaberga district.

Source: Ethiopian News December 20, 2022 23:10 UTC