Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency’s (MIGA) Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Michel Wormser, is visiting Ethiopia from July 8 to July 11, 2014. According to the press release by MIGA, the visit is to underscores the Agency’s continued support to Ethiopia’s development goals via private investment.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia said Milan Expo 2015 in Italy had dedicated September 22, 2015, to celebrate Ethiopia’s National Day.
Steel rolling mills in Ethiopia are going to be prohibited from importing billet (semi finished steel). 
There are eight steel rolling mills in Ethiopia which import billet.
The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development decided two weeks ago to ban the billet imports and assign a state enterprise to import the billets and distribute them to the rolling mills.
An exporter of precious minerals and tantalum, Great Wall, is engaged in discussions with international firms to partner in exploration and extraction of precious minerals in Ethiopia.
Great Wall is talking to currently undiclosed Chinese and Turkish companies interested in deep pit mining for Agate, Amber, Amazonite and Tormaline when the stay on mining licenses in Ethiopia is lifted.
The exporter is also in negotiations for a collaborative venture to explore, extract and export Tantalum and Quartz with other, unnamed, Chinese and Turkish companies.
The Ethiopian Minerals Development Enterprise S.C. has shelved it construction material plant project proposed in the Afar Regional State due to lack of finance.
The Ethiopian Privatization and Public Enterprises Agency (PPESA) passed its decision to suspend the project as the enterprise is planning to build a tantalum manufacturing plant at the Kenticha tantalum mine and it would be difficult to undergo the two projects together.
