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Ethiopia's "Women Business Expo 2023" has begun in Addis Ababa, with the event being held at the Skylight Hotel and organized by Malesa Events. The three-day expo aims to boost women's access, competitiveness, and participation in business, providing a platform for female entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and business leaders to exchange experiences and discuss their work. Attendees can also explore a range of products produced by women entrepreneurs and create market linkages.

In the past nine months, the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State Investment and Industrial Development Office has granted 291 new investment licenses for various projects. Of these, 120 are in agriculture, 89 in service, and 82 in industry.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 14 June 2023.

BIO-key International, a provider of identity and access management (IAM) solutions, has partnered with Savvy Information Technology to offer its solutions to customers in Ethiopia.

The Ethiopian Embassy in Ankara, in partnership with the Bursa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, hosted an investment forum in Bursa City. The forum aimed to promote investment opportunities and incentives in Ethiopia to foreign companies. Investors from Bursa City and its suburbs in the manufacturing, construction, energy, agriculture, and export sectors attended the event.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 13 June 2023.

Mines Resource Development Bureau of the Amhara Regional State identified over 19,174 square kilometers of land for mineral development. According to the deputy head of the office, Mr. Tamrat Demse, a regional map has been prepared, which includes areas for mineral development in the region, containing industrial, construction, iron, and steel-related minerals. 

The Busan Economic Promotion Agency (BEPA) Footwear Industrial Promotion Center has announced its intention to launch a footwear production capacity-building project in Ethiopia. The project, which will be funded with a USD 10 million grant from the Republic of Korea Official Development Assistance (ODA), aims to enhance the competitiveness of Ethiopia's leather and leather products industry, particularly the footwear sector. The project will begin in 2023 and continue until 2027, providing the necessary training and assistance to local footwear producers and officials to improve their productivity and effectiveness.

The International Finance Cooperation (IFC) and Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), which are members of the World Bank Group, have announced an investment in Safaricom Ethiopia's greenfield telecommunications network across Ethiopia. The investment includes an equity investment, a loan, and guarantees to support the ongoing construction and operation of the network.

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization's Investment and Technology Promotion Office (ITPO), in collaboration with the Ethiopian Embassy in Tokyo, will jointly host an Ethiopian Investment Seminar at the United Nations University in Tokyo on June 27, 2023.