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Ethiopia is set to host the 59th UN African Tourism Conference which will be held from Thursday, April 27, 2017 to Saturday, April 29, 2017. This was disclosed by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism.

Ethiopia is going to host the African Energy Ministerial (AEM) Meeting, jointly organized by the Government of Ethiopia and the U.S. Government. The event will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 3 - 4, June, 2014.

Ethiopia will be hosting the International Coffee Organization’s (ICO) 4th World Coffee Conference on March 6-8, 2016 and 116th International Coffee Council meeting on March 9-11, 2016 in Addis Ababa, Fana Broadcasting Corporate reported.

Ethiopia plans to seek more than USD 2.4 billion in new investment commitments during the Fourth “Invest in Ethiopia 2026” Forum, scheduled for March 26 - 27, 2026, in Addis Ababa.

Ethiopia is to implement a unified billing system for water, telephone, and electricity as of the coming January.  

The new unified billing system is to be automated. The system was designed by Global Communication Solutions, an Ethiopian IT company, and NCR and AT&T, its partners from US. The project was undertaken by the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology  in an agreement signed with the companies.
 

The implementation of the project starts from the coming month and aims at modernizing the bill collection system of Ethiopia.  The three governments offices that collect bills separately, the Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation , Ethio-Telecom,  and Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority have completed the installation and testing of the new system.