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Ethiopia grants first financial services licence to foreign firm

Ethiopian Premier Abiy Ahmed addresses the press in Addis Ababa in 2015. [File, Standard]

Ethiopia’s central bank granted a financial services licence to a foreign-owned company for the first time last week, as the government begins to open up the economy of Africa’s second most populous nation.

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