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The fourth edition of the “Made in Ethiopia” Expo concluded in Addis Ababa after generating trade and marketing agreements worth more than Birr 57 billion.

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.

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.

A new international initiative aimed at addressing coffee related deforestation has been launched with an East Africa pilot that includes Ethiopia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Burundi and Rwanda. The Coffee Canopy Partnership, initiated by JDE Peet’s and developed with a group of major coffee companies, seeks to create what is described as the world’s first comprehensive and openly accessible map of global coffee production. The project is intended to improve the identification of deforestation risks, support landscape restoration and protect the livelihoods of smallholder farmers across coffee growing regions.