France funds €20m presidential palace restoration in Ethiopia
Jeune Afrique Business+ learned that an agreement had been signed to this effect last week.
24/07/2020 at 09h49, by Africa Business+
President Emmanuel Macron discussed the idea with his counterpart, Abiy Ahmed in March 2019. It was formalised on 16 July with the signature of an agreement between the minister of finance, Ahmed Shide, the country director at the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Valérie Tehio, and Frédéric Bontems, French ambassador to Ethiopia.
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