[ENA] Addis Ababa -- Ethiopia's Minister of Finance, Ahmed Shide said the role of mission leaders is critical in ensuring that the country's homegrown economic reform policy achieves its objectives.

Kenya has made massive investments in renewable and clean energy. Half the region's population lacks access to electricity, the report says.

With Safaricom's entry into Ethiopia, there is a more direct opportunity to catalyse other facets of cross-border trade ties including the ease in movements of goods via Moyale border.

The federal government has explained that Ethiopian airline was chosen ahead of others as successful bidder to manage its new national carrier – Nigeria air, in order to open air sky, open market and promote intra-African business. Stakeholders had condemned the recently announced stake of Ethiopian Airlines in Nigeria’s national ...

The Federal Government has advised Nigerians bearing Standard Passports intending to travel to Ethiopia to obtain appropriate entry visas at the Ethiopian Embassy as the country has suspended issuance of “visa on arrival” to nonresident foreigners. A statement issued by the spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Fransisca Omayuli, ...

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an ex-footballer, Okafor Emmanuel Junior, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on board an Ethiopian airlines flight with 1.40kg crack cocaine concealed in his bags.    NDLEA spokesperson, ...

New laws being crafted will enable lenders to tap into the lucrative market. Horn of Africa nation has largely restricted foreign firms from its financial market.

[Addis Standard] Addis Abeba -- No sooner than when Safaricom arrived in Addis Abeba did it encounter turbulence. It seems Safaricom's managers did not consider the differences between the business environments in Ethiopia and Kenya.

[RFI] A number of African leaders was in New Delhi for a key investment meeting this summer that brought together 40 ministers from 17 countries including Burkina Faso, Congo, Cameroon, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Gabon and Malawi among others.

Kenya will start importing electricity from the neighbouring country in November with an initial 200MW.

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Colombia is the only Latin American country with NATO "global partner" status. Bogota has contributed to anti-piracy patrols in the Horn of Africa, and Colombian experts have provided mine clearance training to allies and partner countries. The rapprochement between Colombia and NATO took place during ...

Earnings from mostly apparel came on the back of Addis' exclusion from exclusive trade pact due to war in Tigray.

[ENA] Ethiopia has attracted 2.43 billion USD worth of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the past nine months, according to the Ethiopian Investment Commission.

[Ethiopian Herald] ADDIS ABABA- The government's move to engage local investors in the mining sector will boost Ethiopia's economy and improve the livelihoods of citizens. Economists said, calling for stiff measures to halt frauds in the production permits.

An analysis of conflicting 2020 figures from the IMF and World Bank reveal why the latter gave Addis Ababa the edge.

It piles more pressure on an economy reeling from the conflict, the coronavirus pandemic, and high inflation.

Kenya's FDI was spread into 36 projects and supported 2,000 jobs compared to Ethiopia which posted 11 projects and 1,000 jobs.

Sixteen Ethiopian staff working for the United Nations were in detention on Nov. 9 after government raids targeting ethnic Tigrayans, U.N. and humanitarian sources said, as foreign envoys scrambled to end the country’s year-long war.

Prime minister Abiy Ahmed faces potential defeat a year after starting his ‘law enforcement’ operation

[Ethiopian Herald] A webinar Business Forum organized by Afrika Verein (German Africa Business Association) in cooperation with the embassy of Ethiopia in Berlin and the Ministry of Foreign Affair of Ethiopia was held on Friday (October 29).