{"id":279136,"date":"2019-06-17T16:12:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-17T20:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiTWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnZvYW5ld3MuY29tL2FmcmljYS9ldGhpb3BpYS1wbGFucy1wcml2YXRpemUta2V5LXN0YXRlLWVudGVycHJpc2Vz0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-10-01T11:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T15:16:11","slug":"voa-said-ethiopias-finance-minister-was-preparing-to-privatise-key-state-enterprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/279136","title":{"rendered":"VOA said Ethiopia\u2019s finance minister was preparing to privatise key state enterprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 17 June 2019 Voice of America reported that Ethiopia\u2019s finance minister said the government was preparing to privatise some state-owned enterprises as part of wider market opening.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-468257\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"VOA said Ethiopia\u2019s finance minister was preparing to privatise key state enterprises\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as privatisation archive, the VOA story dates how Abiy Ahmed\u2019s finance team described the mid-2019 sell-off agenda.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voanews.com\/a\/africa_ethiopia-plans-privatize-key-state-enterprises\/6170119.html\">Voice of America<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Plans to Privatize Key State Enterprises&nbsp;&nbsp;Voice of AmericaEthiopia&#8217;s finance minister says the government is preparing to privatize some state-owned entities. However, the plan to sell off parts of the country&#8217;s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":468257,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-279136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Ethiopias-Banking-Sector-Faces-Challenges-in-Welcoming-Foreign-Investment.jpg?fit=1280%2C640&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aCc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279136"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755259,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279136\/revisions\/755259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}