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Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has announced that Ethiopia is on course to generate USD 10 billion in export earnings during the current 2025/26 fiscal year, building on the strong export performance recorded in 2024/25.

The Ethiopian Electric Utility announced that 103 rural towns and villages were connected to electricity during the first nine months of the 2025/26 fiscal year.

The Addis International Convention Center Share Company (AICC) has approved a second-phase expansion project valued at Birr 7.537 billion, less than a year after inaugurating its first phase in February 2025.

Kenya’s Equity Group is closely watching Ethiopia’s planned opening of its banking sector to foreign lenders, with the group positioning itself to enter the market once full operations become possible.

The Ethiopian government has restored the country’s daily diesel supply to its pre crisis level of 9 million liters as of today.

The Ethiopian Capital Market Authority has finalized a directive on Collective Investment Schemes, a development expected to broaden access to investment and support the growth of the country’s emerging capital market.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 24 April 2026.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 23 April 2026.

Several coffee companies and commodity traders are launching a new satellite based system to track deforestation linked to coffee cultivation around the world, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by JDE Peet’s, one of the companies involved in the initiative.

Ethiopia substituted imports worth USD 4.85 billion with locally produced goods during the first nine months of the current fiscal period, according to Industry Minister Melaku Alebel.