{"id":34755,"date":"2026-05-18T13:28:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=34755"},"modified":"2026-05-18T13:28:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T11:28:55","slug":"dangote-raises-planned-investment-in-ethiopia-fertiliser-project-to-over-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/dangote-raises-planned-investment-in-ethiopia-fertiliser-project-to-over-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangote raises planned investment in Ethiopia fertiliser project to over $4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote&#8217;s group of companies has increased planned \u200binvestment in a fertiliser plant \u200cin Ethiopia to more than $4 billion from $2.5 billion announced last year.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dangote Group said on \u200bits X account on Sunday \u200bthat Aliko Dangote had visited the \u2060site of the plant to assess \u200bconstruction work with Ethiopian Prime Minister \u200bAbiy Ahmed.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The urea plant will have a capacity of 3 million metric tons a year \u200band is part of a \u200bdrive by Dangote to end Africa&#8217;s fertiliser imports.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Dangote Group&#8217;s \u200cstatement \u2060said the project now had an expanded scope, including a 110 km (68 mile) pipeline, a 120 megawatt power \u200bplant, a \u200bpolypropylene packaging \u2060facility and a 2 million ton NPK (nitrogen, phosphorus and \u200bpotassium) blending plant.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Under the initial \u200bagreement \u2060signed by state-owned Ethiopian Investment Holdings and Dangote Group, Ethiopia would have \u2060a \u200b40% stake in the \u200bproject and Dangote 60%.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23183,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-34755","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Aliko Dangote's group of companies","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34756,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/34755\/revisions\/34756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=34755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}