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Brand Finance named Ethiopian Airlines the fastest-growing airline brand globally, as the company announced the world's top 50 most valuable and strongest airline brands. The company’s 2023 report on the most valuable and strongest airline brands shows that Ethiopian Airlines, which is Africa's largest passenger and cargo carrier, has experienced a growth of 79%. It values the brand of the Ethiopian flag carrier to be USD 498 million.

Ethiopost sent a delegation to Tunisia to visit La Poste Tunisienne, Tunisia’s national postal company, and other key players in the country's financial sector with a view to expanding its reach.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 25 May 2023.

Ethio-Djibouti Standard Gauge Railway S.C. (EDR) revealed that it was expanding its services and increasing its capacity. The company has begun transporting medium and heavy trucks from Djibouti to Addis Ababa. Accordingly, 63 trucks arrived in the Ethiopian capital yesterday.

A trade fair focusing on agriculture, food processing, and plastic printing and packaging technologies is set to take place for three consecutive days from June 1 to 3, 2015 at Millennium Hall in Addis Ababa.

A three-year project to develop a legal framework that would protect various agricultural products as intellectual property was launched yesterday. The project is supported by the French Development Agency and will focus on coffee production, which is one of Ethiopia's main agricultural products.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 24 May 2023.

Hibert Bank and ZamZam Bank signed a Memorandum of Understanding at Hibert Bank’s Head Office to strengthen strategic partnership between the two banks.

During the last nine months of the Ethiopian Fiscal Year, Ethiopia has witnessed a significant increase in digital payments, with transactions exceeding Birr 1.2 trillion, according to Fitsum Aseffa, the Minister of Planning and Development. The amount transferred through digital payment in nine months has increased by 169 percent compared to the previous fiscal year.

Ethiopia is set to issue an international tender in June to license a third telecom operator. The Ethiopian Communication Authority’s (ECA) Director-General, Balcha Reba, confirmed that the Authority was finalizing preparations to award the license. Balcha noted that promotional activities had been carried out to attract companies to explore opportunities in Ethiopia, and the introduction of various incentives and the revision of investment laws had increased investor interest.