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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hosted the “Dine for Sheger” event at the National Palace last night. The event is a fundraising effort to the Beautifying Sheger Project, announced at the end of February this year, calling upon benefactors, both individuals and organizations, to contribute 5 million birr per seat to secure a spot at the event.

Ethiopia’s GDP growth will exceed and expand the 7 percent mark characteristic of the African continent well into the 2020’s, as per a report by the British Bank Standard Chartered and ASEAN’s Macroeconomic Research Office. Pacing up with Ethiopia is the other African country Cote d’Ivoire.

The U.S. Department of State hosted the “Ethiopia Partnership Forum”, an economic engagement platform organized in by the Secretary of State’s office of Global Partnerships in collaboration with the Corporate Council on Africa, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and Citi in Washington D.C.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed met with Børge Brende, President of the World Economic Forum, in a follow up discussion to their meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In January 2019, it was announced that Ethiopia would host the 2020 World Economic Forum on Africa.

Ethiopia-EU business forum has opened in Brussels, Belgium today. Hosting the two-day event which will be concluded tomorrow is the European Commission.

Ethiopia will host the 2019 World Export Development Forum (WEDF), which will be held18-22 November in Addis Ababa.

An Indian integrated textile manufacturing company, KPR Group, inaugurated its plant at Mekelle Industrial Park in the region of Tigray, Ethiopia. The plant cost KPR $2.5 million.

Ethiopian investment opportunities were promoted to Zhejiang enterprises in Hangzhou City, the capital of Zhejiang Province of China, the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced.

AccorHotels, a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties, said it is planning to open seven hotels in Ethiopia by 2020. AccorHotels is the brand name for the company Accor S.A.

Ethiopia stands fourth in hotel development, a survey by W Hospitality Group, a Lagos-based firm, makes known.