Reuters By Belinda Goldsmith Kibret Abebe, one of Ethiopia’s best-known social entrepreneurs, said the sector would be boosted as Ethiopia hosts the 12th annual Social Enterprise World Forum (SEWF) this week, the first developing country to do so. “Scaling up has been a nightmare in Ethiopia and it’s been hard to collaborate with the government […]
Rocky Mountains Institutes by Kester Wade Amid the widespread global disruptions caused by COVID-19, Ethiopia has also been facing the worst desert locust infestation in over 25 years. The economic implications of these crises on the most populous country in the Horn of Africa have taken many forms. External international trade disruptions have already started causing dips […]
Mobile World News In 2020, Ethiopia is set to split its telecoms monopoly and open the market to competition. The move will represent a rare opportunity for operators to enter a huge country with a large proportion of unconnected citizens and low data penetration rate. The UN assessed Ethiopia’s population at 107 million in December 2018. GSMA […]
Details of Ethiopian crew’s actions gleaned from preliminary black-box data By Andy Pasztor and Andrew Tangel, Wall Street journa Pilots at the controls of the Boeing Co. 737 MAX that crashed in March in Ethiopia initially followed emergency procedures laid out by the plane maker but still failed to recover control of the jet, according to […]
When Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in 1993, Ethiopia became landlocked and therefore dependent on its neighbors – especially Djibouti – for access to international markets. This dependency has hampered Ethiopia’s aspiration to emerge as the uncontested regional power in the Horn of Africa. Recently, however, the ground has been shifting. As we point […]
Last year, Safaricom Chief Executive Bob Collymore told the British newspaper Financial Times that the company was looking to export the M-Pesa brand to other countries in East and West Africa. Analysts expected the company to announce an impending entry into Ethiopia this year, especially following new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s effort to liberalize the country’s political and economic […]
Themds Inditex, H&M, Decathlon or Primark are some of the major operators in the sector that have already opted to source from the African country. Chinese know how and low labour costs are its main incentives for the sector. The prospect for fashion expands beyond Cambodia, Myanmar, Vietnam or Bangladesh. The coronavirus crisis has triggered the […]
Digital TV By Jonathan Eas Ethiosat has been launched as a result of agreements between the Association of Ethiopian Broadcasters (AEB), the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC), satellite operator SES.Ethiosat is hosted on SES’s NSS-12 satellite at 57 degrees East and delivers over 30 channels for Ethiopian audiences only, with 12 of those channels already in […]
ECA The government of Ethiopia has unveiled what it describes as a “Homegrown Economic Reform” agenda aimed at unlocking the country’s development potential. “Several months in the making and spearheaded by some of Ethiopia’s finest minds, our initiative aims to propel Ethiopia into becoming the African icon of prosperity by 2030,” said Prime Minister Abiy […]
EuroEconomy By: Virginia Furness Ethiopia’s IMF deal is a notable step towards addressing its external imbalances and to opening up the country’s economy. Ethiopia’s efforts to open its economy were bolstered in mid-December when the International Monetary Fund agreed a new lending programme which, coupled with the launch of the Addis Ababa stock market in […]
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