In June 2019 The Reporter Ethiopia wrote that the economy was taking a hit as export earnings dropped, tightening the foreign-exchange squeeze that factories, banks, and importers already felt.
Lower hard-currency inflows make it harder to pay for fuel, medicine, and industrial inputs, so the export-earnings story remains a useful mid-2019 checkpoint for readers who follow Ethiopia’s chronic FX shortage.
Kept as economy archive, The Reporter piece dates official and market concern over falling export earnings in June 2019.
Sources: The Reporter Ethiopia