Chinese company signs MoU with Ethiopia to light up off-grid areas

STORY: Chinese company signs MoU with Ethiopia to light up off-grid areas SHOOTING TIME: April 12, 2024 DATELINE: April 14, 2024 LENGTH: 00:02:42 LOCATION: Addis Ababa CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the signing ceremony 2. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): SHIFERAW TELILA, Chief executive officer of Ethiopian Electric Utility 3. SOUNDBITE 2 (English): LIU JIFAN, CEO of Huawei Ethiopia 4. various of traffic 5. the signing ceremony STORYLINE: The Ethiopian Electric Utility (EEU) and Chinese telecom company Huawei signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Friday to bring electricity to people living in off-grid areas of Ethiopia. The MoU, signed at the Ethiopia Green Energy Summit 2024 in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, is part of the national electrification project that aims to achieve universal access to electricity in the East African country by 2030, according to Shiferaw Telila, chief executive officer (CEO) of the EEU. Telila said the EEU would work with Huawei to use solar energy to li