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Kenya’s Equity Group is closely watching Ethiopia’s planned opening of its banking sector to foreign lenders, with the group positioning itself to enter the market once full operations become possible.

The Ethiopian government has restored the country’s daily diesel supply to its pre crisis level of 9 million liters as of today.

The Ethiopian Capital Market Authority has finalized a directive on Collective Investment Schemes, a development expected to broaden access to investment and support the growth of the country’s emerging capital market.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 24 April 2026.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 23 April 2026.

Several coffee companies and commodity traders are launching a new satellite based system to track deforestation linked to coffee cultivation around the world, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by JDE Peet’s, one of the companies involved in the initiative.

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.

Here is the daily commodity trade data from Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX) for items traded on 22 April 2026.

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.

A group of international investors has formally notified the Ethiopian government that it may pursue legal action in English courts as early as May following the collapse of a recent debt restructuring deal, according to two sources familiar with the matter.