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Birr Devaluating Steadily

Increased volumes of New Crop are arriving at ECX and therefore most exporters have started offering New Crop for 2020 shipments onwards, Washed coffees are offered for February shipment onwards and Naturals for March onwards, however, we would have to add 1 month to that to be on the safe side! Prices at the ECX […]

Heavy Rain

Although the central Government is yet to announce official Referendum results, media outlets have published a figure of 98% in favour of establishing a separate region for Sidama, therefore we are expecting that Sidama will, in time, become the 10th administrative region of Ethiopia; in our view a positive step for harmony within the country. Since […]

Sidamo Area Referendum

After a delay of a few weeks the Sidamo Referendum was held on Wednesday, 2.2 Million registered voters cast their ballot to decide if the Sidamo area should become an independent region; it is expected that the results will show that Ethiopia is on the path to add a new region to the already existing […]

Referendum Next Week

Next week we have the long-awaited Referendum that could see the Southern region divided into 2 smaller administrative regions; ongoing rains in the Southern region continues to delay the ripening of the Sidama crop; in Limu, the weather has been dry, the prevailing good conditions are aiding the picking and primary processing of the crop […]

Voter Registration Starts

The voter registration process has started for the Referendum that will take place in the Southern Region in 2 weeks’ time; Crop development wise picking is progressing at a slower pace than we had expected a few weeks ago, so far, less than 10% has been picked in Sidama region; in Limu 20-30% has already […]

A Calmer Week

After an eventful week, the last week of October has been much calmer, with the political status quo returning to Addis, a quiet simmer after boiling over! Crop wise, picking continues with prices being paid for Cherry varying between 10-11 Birr per Kg cherry in Sidama;  The terminal market’s upwards trajectory in the last few […]

Unrest In Ethiopia

There have been a few articles in the newswires about unrest in several parts of Ethiopia, we thought it might be an idea to put across our perspective on this situation. The spark for the unrest this week was an attempt to remove the Oromo activist Jawar’s security detail on Tuesday night; Mr. Jawar posted […]

Report 2018-19

Executive Summary ▪ The 2017-18 crop is revised slightly higher to 388,645MT (6,477k bags), still 3% lower than the 2016-17 crop. ▪ The 2018-19 crop is estimated at 437,267MT (7,288k bags), 13% higher than 2017-18crop. The volume of washed and sundried production is estimated at 67,994 MT (16%) and 369,273MT (84%) respectively. ▪ Harvesting is […]