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The Ministry of Mines and Petroleum (Amharic: የማዕድንና ነዳጅ ሚኒስቴር) is the Ethiopian government department responsible for management of mining and petroleum sector in Ethiopia. It was established in 2018 under Proclamation No 1097/2018 and Melese Alemu served as the first Minister of the position.
The birr (Amharic: ብር) is the primary unit of currency in Ethiopia.It is subdivided into 100 santims.. In 1931, Emperor Haile Selassie formally requested that the international community use the name Ethiopia (as it had already been known internally for at least 1,600 years [2]) instead of the exonym Abyssinia, and the issuing Bank of Abyssinia also became the Bank of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia's first revenues were issued in 1930. The earliest issue consisted of four stamps printed by Waterlow and Sons , with a Lion of Judah in the centre. This issue exists either with a background design of ornamental scallops or with a plain background.
There have been three major forces involved in the evolution of media in Ethiopia: (1) the need to communicate information about Ethiopia to the external world in order to create an international awareness of Ethiopia and its leaders, (2) the need for internal communication to provide information and to develop a sense of national identity and, later (3) the need to utilize media for education ...
Addis Zemen (አዲስ ዘመን; "New Era" in English) [1] is an Ethiopian Amharic newspaper published by the federal government's Ethiopian Press Agency, [2] which also publishes the English-language Ethiopian Herald.
The Bank of Abyssinia (Amharic: አቢሲንያ ባንክ) is a commercial bank and the oldest bank in Ethiopia. It was established in 1905 and inaugurated by Emperor Menelik II on 16 February 1906, becoming the modern bank of Ethiopia. In 1915, the bank was the first to produce banknote with the help of British owned National Bank of Egypt ...
Ethiopia, [c] officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north , Djibouti to the northeast , Somalia to the east , Kenya to the south , South Sudan to the west , and Sudan to the northwest .