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The Vivo Y3 was launched in May 2019 by Vivo. The Vivo Y3s phone served as an even more budget friendly variant, reducing prices by cutting out the Ultra-wide camera, and launched much later, on October 26, 2020. [12] The pricing for the Vivo Y3 was around €190 (¥1500), [13] [14] and the Vivo Y3s launched with a price of €150 (¥1170). [12 ...
Ethiopia's economy experienced strong, broad-based growth averaging 9.4% a year from 2010/11 to 2019/20. Ethiopia's real gross domestic product (GDP) growth slowed down to 6.1% in 2019/20 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [80] Industry, mainly construction, and services accounted for most of the growth.
Telecommunications in Ethiopia is a monopoly in the control of Ethio telecom, formerly the Ethiopian Telecommunications Corporation (ETC). As of 2012, 20.524 million cellular phones and 797,500 main line phones were in use.
3 January – 2024–25 Ethiopian earthquakes: Volcanic activity is reported in Awash Fentale in Afar Region. [2]10 January – Ethiopia launches its first stock exchange after the imperial period of Haile Selassie.
[10] 17 July – Nine police officers are killed in an attack on a police station near the Kumer refugee camp in Amhara Region. [11] 21–22 July – 2024 Gofa landslides: At least 257 people are killed in two landslides caused by heavy rains that strike two villages in Gofa Zuria, South Ethiopia Regional State. [12] [13]
March 10 – Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited Ethiopia and announced new U.S. Aid to "advance" vital steps for building peace and stability in the country. [12] [13] [14] March 16 – The Addis Ababa City Administration banned about 10,000 tuk-tuk (″Bajaj") taxis.
Ethiopia had an average inflation rate of 26% in 2021 and 30% in 2022, something that was largely driven by a rise in food prices; [27] in February 2023, the overall inflation rate reached 32%, [28] and Ethiopia continued to experience high inflation by September 2023, with commonly purchased food items becoming more expensive. [29]
This represents 11.8% of the Region's output and 6.0% of Ethiopia's total output. [10] Borena is home to three of the major mines of Ethiopia: the gold mine at Kebri Mangest, and the Lega Dembi gold and the Kenticha tantalum mines near Shakiso. An agreement was signed in early December 1997 between the Ethiopian government and the private ...