Staff WriterHussain Sultan Lootah, Acting CEO of ENOC Group and Chairman of the Horizon Djibouti Terminals Limited (HDTL) Board, has successfully concluded a high-level strategic visit to Djibouti and Ethiopia. This high-level visit underscored ENOC Group’s commitment to advancing critical energy infrastructure projects across East Africa and fostering international collaboration for sustainable regional development and social impact. During these meetings, Hussain Sultan Lootah reaffirmed ENOC’s unwavering support for the East African country’s economic growth through HDTL, aligning with national priorities. Hussain Sultan Lootah, Acting CEO of ENOC Group, said, “Leveraging ENOC Group and Horizon Djibouti Terminals Limited’s established expertise in terminal operations across East Africa, this strategic visit reinforces ENOC Group's commitment to advancing vital energy infrastructure and fuel storage capabilities in the region. An ENOC delegation also visited the AMG Holding (Affiliated Managers Group) plant on the invitation of the CEO of Ethio Djibouti Railways (EDR).

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Addis Ababa, December 29, 2025 (FMC) — Ethiopian Ambassador to China Tefera Derbew has held discussions with Chen Huiqin, Mayor of Zhuzhou City, on future areas of cooperation between Ethiopia and the Chinese city. The discussions focused on strengthening economic and trade cooperation, while also exploring ways to further consolidate people-to-people relations, the Ethiopian Embassy in Beijing told Fana Media Corporation. The two officials also discussed the establishment of sister-city relations between Zhuzhou City and Ethiopian counterparts as a means of deepening bilateral ties. It is noteworthy that over the weekend, the Ethiopia–China Coffee Economic and Trade Cooperation Conference was held in Zhuzhou, Hunan Province, alongside the inauguration of a specialty Ethiopian coffee trading center. The trading center serves as a hub for exhibitions, commercial transactions, and cultural exchange, supporting the expansion of Ethiopian coffee trade in China.

For the majority of 2025, producers, traders and buyers of green coffee have suffered collective whiplash due to radical policy changes affecting the global coffee trade, amid enduring threats such as climate change. Much of 2025 felt like an unfortunate political detour from the real work the global coffee industry cannot keep postponing: making green coffee production more resilient and genuinely sustainable in the face of climate change and rising demand. Daily Coffee News’ 2025 Year in Review is our annual look back at the people, places and ideas that shaped coffee this year. Yet for the past six months, a Bay Area couple has been spending nights and weekends readying Futures.Coffee, a free website for quick-reference commodity coffee price info. Yet it also comes a few short years after prices were at multi-year lows, dipping below $1 per pound and threatening the livelihoods of millions of the world’s smallholder coffee farmers… read more

“After that, she raised two young sons amid uncertainty, becoming both mother and father to me and my brother Nitin. She was deeply spiritual and lived by simple yet profound principles: think good for others, and God will think good for you; help others, and God will help you. Her courage, compassion, and spiritual depth gradually transformed hardship into stability, enabling her sons to build their lives.”

Egypt’s problem “is not with the Ethiopian people” but with “the unilateral conduct of the Ethiopian government”, said Mr Abdelatty. A new round of ministerial talks held this month in Burundi brought both groups together for the first time in years “in a genuine consultative process”, Mr Abdelatty said. “If consensus is reached, Egypt will return strongly to the initiative and support its transformation into a Nile Water Commission,” he said. AFPCountering 'colonial' narrativeEgypt has worked hard to counter the narrative that it has historically hoarded the Nile’s waters and that it stood against African development, Mr Abdelatty said. Mr Abdelatty said the “false narrative” has also been propagated by Ethiopia’s leadership, which has accused Egypt of having a “colonial stance” on African development.

The event, held in Zhuzhou City, served as a large-scale platform to promote Ethiopia’s distinctive coffee varieties, attracting more than 700,000 participants. Speaking at the event, Ethiopia’s Ambassador to China, Tefera Derbew, highlighted the growing relationship between Ethiopia and China, noting that coffee plays a central role in strengthening economic cooperation between the two countries. Over the past five months, Ethiopia exported 16,300 metric tons of coffee to China, generating 113 million dollars in revenue. During the event, Ethiopian and Chinese companies signed several cooperation agreements covering coffee trade, barter-based trading platforms, and new energy development initiatives. Director-General of the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Authority Adugna Debela said demand for Ethiopian coffee continues to grow in the Chinese market and reaffirmed Ethiopia’s readiness to establish effective and sustainable partnerships with Chinese stakeholders.

A 2.9-magnitude earthquake was recorded south of the Omani exclave of Musandam in the early hours of Sunday and was “slightly felt” in the UAE. The NCM said in its initial report that the earthquake had been “felt by residents without causing any impact in the UAE”. More tax audits Tax authorities are increasingly using data already available across multiple filings to identify audit risks. The UAE will shortly open the possibility to negotiate advance pricing agreements, or essentially rulings for transfer pricing purposes. Limited time periods for audits Recent amendments also introduce a default five-year limitation period for tax audits and assessments, subject to specific statutory exceptions.

Like communities in Ethiopia They regenerate entire forests. Thus, They regenerate entire forests without planting a single seedling., simply guiding what the soil is already capable of producing when it receives water and protection. When this spreads across entire farms and several surrounding villages, the result is visible from afar: Hills that were once gray and bare begin to display patches of green, until entire communities regenerate entire forests on a landscape scale. When communities in Ethiopia regenerate entire forests, it's not just the color of the map that changes. What communities in Ethiopia do when they regenerate entire forests points the way for other regions facing water crises and degraded soil.

Ethiopian Airlines has marked the completion of the continent’s inaugural full strip-and-paint program on two Airbus A350-900 aircraft. Ethiopian Airlines is Africa’s premier carrier and one of the world’s fastest-expanding aviation brands. Together, these developments position Ethiopian Airlines at the forefront of in-house maintenance for widebody aircraft with cutting-edge composite structures. Ethiopian Airlines In-House ExpertiseToday, the airline boasts full in-house expertise in painting and multi-layer coatings for both composite and aluminium structures across its modern fleet. Ethiopian Airlines stands as an inspiring African triumph, evolving from a bold vision nearly eight decades ago into a global aviation leader.

Far above northern Ethiopia’s patchwork fields, villagers in Wollo have uncovered a rich, natural black opal deposit almost 9,800 feet above sea level. Before Stayish, researchers documented an Ethiopian black opal whose bodycolor came from manganese-rich minerals, underlining how rare dark material was. Reshaping the black opal marketCollectors once relied on Lightning Ridge in Australia for black opal, but Stayish material offers a growing second source with its own look. Stories about the gems highlight origin, describing Ethiopian black opal mined by hand from tunnels cut by villagers instead of from open pits. That black opal seam beneath Wollo now links tunnels, gem labs, and jewelry counters in ways few villagers imagined when they began digging.

ANNOUNCER:From NBC News in Washington, the longest-running show in television history, this is a special edition of Meet the Press with Kristen Welker. On this special edition of Meet the Press, we are bringing you four of our “Meet the Moment” conversations. [END TAPE]KRISTEN WELKER:What did that moment feel like, to rewrite the history books? During 1950 Meet the Press has been very fortunate in having on its press panel some of the outstanding reporters on Capitol Hill. We can say algorithm, but they don't know the before times, so they don't know the freedom of what that is.

Through its Climate-Resilient Green Economy strategy, nationally determined commitments, and substantial investment in renewable energy and sustainable land use, the country has demonstrated clear climate ambition. Yet ambition alone does not guarantee delivery. Across Africa, experience points to a common lesson: climate ambition without credible climate finance systems struggles to achieve scale. South Africa: Translating commitments into financed partnershipsSouth Africa’s Just Energy Transition Partnership represents a breakthrough in linking climate ambition to structured finance. From ambition to deliveryEthiopia’s climate ambition provides a strong foundation for action.

Ethiopia’s Digital Ethiopia 2030 strategy builds on earlier digitalization efforts to expand digital public infrastructure, e-government, and a digital economy while emphasizing inclusion and youth employment. Drawing on policy documents, secondary literature on digital transformation in fragile settings, and analyses of Ethiopia’s political trajectory, the paper argues that fragility both enables and constrains digital transformation. Section 2 reviews literature on digital transformation, digital public infrastructure, and governance in fragile and conflict-affected states. Section 4 analyses ways in which conflict and fragility have enabled selected digital reforms, while Section 5 explores how they constrain inclusive digital transformation. 3.4 From Digital Ethiopia 2025 to Digital Ethiopia 2030Against this backdrop, the government launched the Digital Ethiopia 2025 strategy around 2019–2020 as an initial roadmap for leveraging digital technologies to support growth, jobs, and service delivery.

The Resource Atlas serves as a dynamic blueprint for the ambitious objectives outlined in the National Horticulture Strategy. The Manufacturing Industry Resource Atlas serves as an exemplary model for the Ministry of Agriculture to follow. Drawing from the labor mapping in the manufacturing atlas (e.g., urban-rural workforce distribution), it could target youth employment in regions like South Omo, which are rich in fruits but underserved by infrastructure. Critics may argue that agriculture’s seasonal nature complicates mapping, but the manufacturing atlas demonstrates otherwise—it effectively handles dynamic elements such as energy fluctuations and mining activities. By adopting the Manufacturing Atlas’s methodology, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) can develop a Horticultural Resource Atlas that not only maps resources but also fosters growth.