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On the newly minted trading floor of a high-rise building in #AddisAbaba’s financial district, a bell stands ready for the launch this month of the first securities market in #Ethiopia since the last days of emperor Haile Selassie.

“This isn’t just a milestone, it marks a new Ethiopia,” said Tilahun Kassahun, chief executive of the new Ethiopian Securities Exchange.

Outside is a 50-metre tall pillar with a red star on top, built during the Marxist Derg regime that toppled the emperor and ushered in decades of state-led economic policies that are only now being dismantled.

The new stock market is part of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s efforts — interrupted by a ghastly two-year civil war that killed at least 600,000 people before ending in late 2022 — to open up the hashtag#economy of Africa’s second-most populous nation.

I am considering relocating to Ethiopia.

I feel drawn to the country because of its spiritual and historical significance.

This is something I need to do very urgently

gasparpisciotta:
I am considering relocating to Ethiopia.

I feel drawn to the country because of its spiritual and historical significance.

This is something I need to do very urgently

You're going back to 2016

EmperorCaesar:
You're going back to 2016

Part of what fascinates me about the place

Ethiopia should re-annex Eritrea so they can have access to again that country has no significance on the map