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Article: Ethiopia: Germany Donates Heavy Waste-Disposal Trucks, Mine Detectors.
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- September 26, 2009
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German Development Bank (KfW) on Thursday handed over seven heavy trucks for urban waste-disposal worth 600 thousand EUR to the City Administrations of Dire Dawa, Gonder, Kombolcha and Awassa.
In a related story the Germany embassy here in Addis Ababa announced that the German government has donated 70 mine/metal detectors worth EUR over 150 thousand for the humanitarian demining operations in the Afar, Somali, and Tigray regionsof the country. The trucks were said would enable the four cities to enhance their urban waste management system.
Waste management is an important area of work, especially in growing cities. It leads to dramatic improvement of ...