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The first edition of Ethiopia-Djibouti-France business networking meeting was held in Djibouti yesterday. The business networking meeting had a goal of discussing investment opportunities, technology transfer and know-how among the three countries.

Over 20 UK companies, in the Invest Africa platform, are exploring investment opportunities here in Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Trade and Industry said it plans to earn $3.7 billion from export this Ethiopian fiscal year, which ends in July.

A one-day Ethiopia-Uganda Business Forum has been held in Kampala, Uganda, organized by the Ethiopian Embassy in Uganda, in collaboration with the Uganda National Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Ethio-German business forum opened yesterday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The forum brings together over a hundred Ethiopian and German businesspeople. A delegation from the German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg came to attend the forum.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance announced that six sugar projects will be privatized in the first quarter of 2020.

Alibaba Group, the Chinese e-commerce giant, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Ethiopia, following the visit of its chairman Jack Ma in Ethiopia. The MoU is for Alibaba to establish an Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP) hub in Ethiopia. The hub aims to facilitate cross-border trade, provide smart logistics and fulfillment services, assist Ethiopian small and micro enterprises (SMEs) reach global markets by providing smart logistics and services, and provide talent training.

The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) opened three new branches that give full-fledged interest-free banking services.

The 2019 Ethiopian International Mining Conference and Exhibition (EIMC 2019) is underway in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The two-day event which started yesterday (25th November), is on its second edition this year and will be concluded today.

Ethiopia attracted $700 Million in Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) during the first quarter of the fiscal year that started in July this year, the Ethiopian Investment Commission reported. The figure stands at 70 percent of the planned a billion-dollar target for the period.