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Dangote Sets Sights on Making Africa Food-Secure, Begins $2.5bn Urea Fertiliser Plant in Ethiopia

  • October 13, 2025
  • Dagmawi Zeleke

In a record-breaking joint venture partnership between an indigenous African private investor and a government, the Dangote Group has taken its investment on the continent to a greater level with the commencement of a $2.5 billion joint urea fertiliser plant in Gode, Ethiopia, with a capacity to produce three million metric tons of the product per annum (mtpa).

This emerged as Senator Adams Oshiomhole, representing Edo North Senatorial District, on Friday, declared his support for Dangote Refinery in the heat of its disagreement with the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN).

Africa’s richest man and President/Group Chief Executive Officer of Dangote Industries Limited, Alhaji Aliko Dangote disclosed the latest investment in Ethiopia during his speech at the groundbreaking ceremony of the project in the country.

Dangote said the project, which is a partnership between the Dangote Group and the Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH), the strategic investment arm of the Government of Ethiopia, would make the country the biggest agricultural nation on the African continent.
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