Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed officially opened a flour and bread factory in Assosa the state capital of the Benishangul Gumuz region on August 23.
The Assosa flour and bread factory was built by the Office of the First Lady Zinash Tayachew with a capacity to produce 300,000 loaves per day.
Speaking at the event Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said
My partner in life, Zinash, through the Office of the First Lady, inaugurated the fourth of eleven bread factories today in Hawassa city.
These bread factories being built throughout the country have a capacity of producing 300k bread and 42 tonnes of flour per day, providing local communities affordable meal staples.