The Ethiopian-Turkey Trade and Investment Forum took place in Addis Ababa on Friday, May 30, 2014 at the Prime Minister Office. The Forum brought Turkish businesses and high level Ethiopian Official on the same table for discussions.
A group of Ethiopians in the Diaspora are going to build a large business center in Addis Ababa at a cost of 2.6 billion birr, Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported.
Areas of interest include real estate, mining, manufacturing, healthcare and agro-industry.
Ethiopians living in the United States are going to discuss the existing investment opportunities in Ethiopia at a conference to be held in Washington DC.
The conference, under the theme "Collaborative Investing by the Diaspora", is scheduled to take place on Saturday October 8 at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.
The conference is a half a day U.S. private-sector-led initiative. The organisers expect about 300 people to attend the meeting.
Experts from the Commodity Exchange in Ethiopia are to train stakeholders and personnel of the Ghanaian Commodity Exchange according to Ms. Hanna Tetteh Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry.
The training is to begin in the first quarter of 2012 she said.
The Ethiopian Airlines said it was planning to increase its market share in Africa by ten folds in 2025 by raising the quality of its service and number of its aircraft.
Tewolde Gebre-Mariam, CEO of the airlines, said that Ethiopian would add 70 modern, fuel-saving aircraft to its fleet.
According to Tewolde, Ethiopian's annual income has now reached 1.6 billion dollars and the company was working to raise it to 10 billion dollars. The airline’s annual number of passengers is currently over three million, three times greater than the number of passengers over the last five years.
