In May 2019 Hellenic Shipping News reported that an Ethiopian state purchasing agency bought roughly 600,000 tonnes of wheat from optional origins after an international tender closed.
Large wheat tenders are a routine FX and food-security signal for a country that still mixes domestic harvests with imports when rains fail or when conflict disrupts farming.
The May 2019 purchase sat in the same season as FEWS NET drought warnings for the wider Horn.
Kept as food trade archive, the 600,000-tonne tender is a dated marker of state import dependence under Abiy Ahmed’s early government.
Sources: Hellenic Shipping News