Officials from the Harari Enterprise Development and Industry Bureau and the region’s Trade Development Agency are at odds over who should have the right to distribute cement in the regional state. The number of private distributors requesting the agency to distribute cement is disproportional to the amount of cement Harari is getting. The MoTRI, which allocates quotas on how much cement each regional state should get each month, allocated only 2,000 quintals of cement for Harari daily. The Harari regional state requested for 7,000 quintals of cement daily, considering the growing construction demand in the region. But the regional state requested the MoTRI to include the National Cement Factory as well to supply the cement to Harari.

Source: Ethiopian News August 27, 2022 08:51 UTC