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Visa, Bank of Abyssinia Sign Five-Year Deal to Expand Card Issuance and Cross-Border Digital Payments
NBE has removed minimum foreign currency requirements for opening FX accounts and scrapped travel document requirements, such as visas or airline tickets, for obtaining international cards.
13 March 2026
By Etenat Awol

Websprix Launches Sovereign Cloud Infrastructure Amid Ethiopia’s Data Localization Push
Websprix, Ethiopia’s first private ISP, has launched a sovereign cloud infrastructure offering enterprise-grade VMware and OpenStack clusters, keeping all hosted data inside Ethiopia.
22 January 2026
By Etenat Awol









