New Delhi, Oct 3: The fifth meeting of the India-Ethiopia Joint Trade Commission will be held in Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) on October 6.

Union Minister of State for Commerce and Power Jairam Ramesh will be leading the Indian delegation comprising of senior officials, businessmen, export promotion councils and bankers.

A number of important bilateral agreements are expected to be signed during the meeting which include to expand the supply of raw skins and hides that are abundantly available in Ethiopia for India’s growing leather manufacturing industry and to set up an apparel fashion design institute in Ethiopia with the assistance of the Apparel Export Promotion Council (AEPC).

Nairobi  - The Red Cross on Wednesday asked for more money to help deal with a worsening humanitarian crisis in drought-hit Southern Ethiopia.

"Over the past two months the situation has worsened and living conditions have deteriorated," Lorenzo Violante, the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) drought operations manager for Ethiopia, said in a statement.

"People have exhausted all their resources and are unable to feed themselves," he added.

Nairobi/Addis Ababa  - Ethiopia's Supreme Court on Monday