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Ethiopia's parliament, the House of People's Representatives, announced its expectation that Ethiopia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will be completed in two years.

Ethio Lease has signed a collaborative Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ethiopian Ministry of Agriculture and the Agricultural Transformation Agency (ATA) to lease agriculture equipment to ATA sponsored farmers’ mechanisation centres. Ethio Lease is the first foreign-owned leasing company in Ethiopia.

A delegation of Private Investors for Africa (PIA) expressed their "keen" interest to invest in Ethiopia. The delegation is on a two-day business tour in Ethiopia and has held talks with Aklilu Hailemichael (Ph.D.), Ethiopia's State Minister at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Ethio Telecom, Ethiopia's government-owned sole of telecom services provider, announced today a tariff reduction on its fixed broadband internet service while tripling its speed.

The Ethiopian Embassy in India held a business forum on Tuesday, in collaboration with the Federation of Madhya Pradesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. The forum focused on Ethiopia's investment, trade, and tourism potentials.

The Ethiopian Ministry of Culture and Tourism said it plans to dispense another round of star ratings of 200 hotels, reassessing the ratings they already have, before the end of this Ethiopian fiscal year in July.

Zimbabwean billionaire businessman Strive Masiyiwa's Econet Global Limited, a telecom company owned by Zimbabwean businessman Strive Masiyiwa, seeks to obtain a telecom license in Ethiopia, Bloomberg reported.

The Khalifa Fund for Enterprise Development (KEFD) of the United Arab Emirates signed a deal to loan $100 million to Ethiopia.

Ethiopia has collected $407 million in the past seven months from coffee export, the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority declared.

The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), the largest bank in East Africa and owned by the Ethiopian government, declared it has collected a profit of over $295 million (9.33 billion birr) before tax during the first half of this fiscal year. In a related note, the other two government-owned financial institutions, the Development Bank of Ethiopia and Ethiopian Insurance Corporation collected profits of $30 million (951.6 million birr) and $13.53 million (427.89 million birr) during the period, respectively.