News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia’s social media shutdowns threaten its digital economy
Ethiopia wants to build an open digital economy, but it’s also indefinitely blocking major social media platforms for unspecified security reasons.
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia: Members of Congress Call for Sanctions On Individuals Responsible for Human Rights Abuses in Western Tigray
Three members of the US Congress have written a letter urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen to impose sanctions on individuals responsible for human rights abuses in Western Tigray, in Ethiopia.
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia lowers coffee export target after revenue miss
Ethiopia's coffee export revenues fell short this fiscal year, coming in at USD 1.33 billion instead of the hoped-for two billion dollars. High domestic coffee prices, unfavorable exchange rates and volatile global markets contributed to the shortfall, prompting authorities to lower export targets for the new budget cycle.
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia's opal market: Government keen to boost and regulate opal trade
Opal is a spectacular stone with unique, and beautiful reflections. In Ethiopia, deposits were discovered in 2008 in the north of the country, and it quickly the world's second-largest exporter.
News Ethiopia Trading: The state of Ethiopia’s economy: “Not much is happening,” says trade expert
While not opposing Ethiopia's economic reforms, PACCI Executive Director Kebour Ghenna believes the country's privatization push lacks strategic focus, implementation of economic changes has been limited, and Ethiopia lacks the productive capacity to leverage the benefits of the African Continental Free Trade Agreement.
News Ethiopia Trading: East Africa: Fighting Over 'White Gold' - Sesame in Ethiopia and Sudan
Analysis - The supply chain of a seemingly innocuous cash crop - sesame - has intersected with transnational conflict dynamics, exacerbating tensions between Ethiopia and Sudan.
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia imitates Japan to recover from industry shocks
The Ministry of Industry (MoI) is preparing to establish a pooled fund with contributions from the private sector and donors that will be used to actively ...
News Ethiopia Trading: Blinken accuses all sides in Ethiopian conflict of committing war crimes
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Monday that the US has formally determined that armed forces on all sides of the conflict in northern Ethiopia have committed war crimes. “After the ...
News Ethiopia Trading: Calls Grow for Ethiopia's Somali Region to End Media Suspensions
Calls are growing for Ethiopia to revoke an order that suspended 15 foreign media outlets and a regional journalists' association from operating in the country's eastern Somali Regional State.
News Ethiopia Trading: E-Commerce
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News Ethiopia Trading: Everything You Need to Know About E-Commerce
E-commerce is booming during the pandemic, presenting a big opportunity for entrepreneurs to set up shop and start selling. Here's what you need to know about this type of business. E-commerce has ...
News Ethiopia Trading: Somalia's neighbours to launch new operations against al Shabaab militants
MOGADISHU, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Top leaders of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya on Wednesday agreed to begin "search and destroy" operations to push al Shabaab militants out of neighbouring Somalia.
News Ethiopia Trading: Exclusive: Somalia Sends Thousands of Army Recruits Abroad for Training
Somalia has launched what is being called the most significant military offensive against the al-Shabab extremist group in more than a decade. The Somali government has sent thousands of military ...
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia aims to create 'green culture' in fight against climate change
Ethiopia, the second most-populous country in Africa, is trying to create a green culture to win the fight against climate change, the country’s Prime Minister has said. At Abu Dhabi Sustainability ...
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia war death toll could be 600,000, fuelled by arms from imperial powers
The two-year civil war in Ethiopia may have killed as many as 600,000 people, one of the world’s deadliest recent conflicts.
News Ethiopia Trading: Mediators meet to bolster Ethiopia truce amid signs of detente
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Mediators between Ethiopia's federal government and authorities in the Tigray region, embroiled until last month in a brutal war, are stepping up efforts to enforce a truce as relations between the two sides inch closer towards normality. The Nov. 2 ceasefire quieted a two-year conflict that killed tens of thousands and displaced millions in the Horn of Africa country, but
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia debt relief delay partly due to civil war, says finance minister
Washington / Johannesburg: Delays in restructuring Ethiopia s debt due to the failings of a new global mechanism for resolving debt problems are disa...
News Ethiopia Trading: Ethiopia restricts banks from issuing foreign currency
Ethiopia has ordered banks to deny foreign currency to businesses importing non-priority goods, in an effort to shore up dwindling foreign reserves in one of Africa's major economies.
