VOA said Ethiopia’s finance minister was preparing to privatise key state enterprises


On 17 June 2019 Voice of America reported that Ethiopia’s finance minister said the government was preparing to privatise some state-owned enterprises as part of wider market opening.

VOA said Ethiopia’s finance minister was preparing to privatise key state enterprises

The report noted that plans to sell stakes in major firms, including parts of the telecom sector, remained politically sensitive even as officials pushed foreign capital into selected public assets.

Kept as privatisation archive, the VOA story dates how Abiy Ahmed’s finance team described the mid-2019 sell-off agenda.

Sources: Voice of America