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Ambassador Negash Kibret Botora, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Ethiopia to the United Nations Office at Geneva and Other International Organizations and Dr. Francis Gurry, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) signed yesterday a Memorandum of Understanding on the Implementation of the Capacity Building in the Use of Appropriate Technology Specific Technical and Scientific Information as a Solution for Identified Development Challenges.

Ethiopia and the World Bank have inked a $100 million financing agreement to help support entrepreneurship.

Signing the agreement were Yasmin Wohabrebi, Ethiopia's State Minister of Finance, and Ousmane Dione, World Bank Country Director for Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and Eritrea.

Ethiopia and the World Bank signed loan agreements amounting to $200 million, aimed at supporting the implementation of Ethiopia's digitization program. Inking the agreement were Ahmed Shide, Ethiopia's Minister of Finance, and Ousmane Dione, World Bank's Country Director.

The Ethiopia-based aviation services company, Krimson, obtained an aviation license by the Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA). The license Krimson obtained is one of the first few business aviation licenses being issued by ECAA.

The Ethiopia-China Economic and Trade Forum commenced yesterday at the Skylight Hotel. The forum was jointly organized by Ethiopia’s Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Trade & Regional Integration, alongside the Ethiopian Investment Commission (EIC), the Ethiopian Chamber of Commerce and Sectoral Association (ECCSA), and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT).