Ethiopia: Trade Bureau says Addis Abeba City is hit by sugar shortage, Ministry pledges to overcome supply problem

Addis Abeba — The Addis Abeba City Administration Trade Bureau has announced that the capital city is hit by severe shortage in the supply of sugar products in the city. Mesfin Assefa, he deputy head of the bureau, told ruling party run media that although the quota allocated to the city was 120, 000 quintals, the quantity of sugar supplied to the city during the past four months is less than half of the quota. Kumneger Ewnetu, Public Relations and Communications Executive at the Ministry of Trade and Regional Integration corroborated the complaint on the shortage of sugar supply to the city is true, and said it was due to lack of government subsidized sugar supply the the city. Kumneger further said that in order to overcome the supply problem, the Ministry is planning to have a discussion with sugar importers in the near future; the ministry had held fruitful discussions with sugar factories in Ethiopia, according to Kumneger. The PR executive also said that 200, 000 tones of ...