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The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) has launched a new service for its customers it refers as “premium and business customers”. Customers who visit the Bank frequently or have a deposit that is more than one Million Birr can get the new service at a separate customer service window.

Sufian Ahmed, Minister for Finance and Economic Development presented Ethiopia’s 2014/2015 budget bill on Monday, June 9, 2014 to the House of Peoples’ Representatives (HPR) suggesting the fiscal year’s budget to be 178.6 Billion Birr. After the presentation the House sent the bill for further examination to the House’s Finance and Budget Affairs Standing Committee.

Ethiopia’s only crocodile farm announced it will start exporting crocodile meat in the coming year to Asian countries.

Southwest Technologies and its partners announced on Tuesday, May 3, 2014 they are ready to launch a data center in Ethiopia. The data center is expected to make Ethiopia the IT hub for Central Africa, according to The Reporter.