Ethiopia News News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopia opens banking market, but foreign commercial lenders remain on sidelines
As of September 2026, more than a year after Ethiopia's detailed foreign-bank licensing rules took effect, not a single foreign commercial bank has begun operations. The problem is no longer access ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopian inaugurates e-commerce logistics facility at Bole
Ethiopian Airlines has opened its state-of-the-art e-commerce logistics facility. The Ethiopian e-commerce facility is located inside the Ethiopian Cargo and Logistics premises. The newly built ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopia’s Commercial Bank violated customers' data privacy, say critics
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia violated customers' private data when it published hundreds of names and photographs of customers in bid to recover lost funds from an ATM network glitch incident.
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Sharjah Chamber organises trade mission to Ethiopia to strengthen economic, investment cooperation
SHARJAH, 18th October, 2026 (WAM) -- Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI), represented by Sharjah Export Development Centre (SEDC), is organising a high-level trade mission to Addis Ababa, ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: First Ethiopian commercial ship docks in Eritrea for 2 decades -broadcaster
NAIROBI, Sept 5 (Reuters) - An Ethiopian commercial ship docked in an Eritrean port for the first time in two decades on Wednesday, state-affiliated Ethiopian broadcaster Fana Broadcasting said, in ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopia inks agreement with Alibaba to join eWTP platform
Ethiopia yesterday signed an agreement with China’s Alibaba Group to join its Electronic World Trade Platform (eWTP), which was proposed by company founder Jack Ma in 2016 as an open platform for ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopia: Iceaddis, Mastercard Foundation partner on e-commerce start-ups
The agreement makes $4m in funding from Mastercard Foundation available to early stage start-ups over the next five years, Iceaddis CEO Markus Lemma tells The Africa Report. ICE stands for Innovation, ...
News Ethiopia » Commerce: Ethiopia: Commercial Bank in desperate attempt to recover lost cash
The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia has taken steps outside its legal mandate as a financial institution, freezing accounts and publishing private data of its customers, in its latest name-and-shame ...