In Tigrinya, there is a sying that goes “Kab me’ar zete’ame”. It means “sweeter than honey”, and after tasting white honey from Tigray, one must assume that what the saying refers to is very sweet indeed!

During a visit to Mekelle University on the 6th of March, representatives from the Embassy of Norway had the pleasure of meeting eight of altogether nine students from Norway, Malawi,Uganda and Ethiopia who are taking part in the The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperations (Norad) Programme for Master Studies (NOMA), here with emphasis on Natural Resource Managment.

Parallelt med landets økonomisk vekst det siste tiåret har Etiopias forretningsklima forbedret seg betydelig. Her følger en artikkel om bedriftenes samfunnsansvar i Etiopia og ambassadens aktiviteter for økt fokus på norske bedrifters engasjement i landet.

“The River Nile in the Post Colonial Age” written by professor Terje Tvedt, University of Bergen, details the modern development of the Nile Basin and the efforts to manage its waters.