{"id":6027,"date":"2021-07-14T17:31:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/?p=6027"},"modified":"2021-07-14T17:23:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:23:49","slug":"ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Diaspora Remits Over 3 Billion USD in 11 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Addis Ababa July 14\/2021 (ENA) The Ethiopian Diaspora have sent 3. 3 billion USD remittance during the 11 months of the concluded budget year and invested 37.8 billon Birr during same period, according to the Ethiopian Diaspora Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Diaspora Agency Director-General, Selamawit Dawit told ENA that the diaspora transferred the highest amount of remittance than in the last two years despite the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, 3. 3 billion USD remittance was sent by the diaspora during the last 11 months of the concluded Ethiopian budget year.<\/p>\n<p>Some 6,406 members of the diaspora have also opened hard currency accounts at banks in Ethiopia depositing over 7 million USD, she added.<\/p>\n<p>Projects registered with 37.8 billon Birr capital in investment areas of various sectors like hotel, agriculture, manufacturing, agro-processing, among others, and owned by the diaspoa have been established, according to Selamawit.<\/p>\n<p>Form among the total projects, 84 have become operational, creating 13,000 jobs in Addis Ababa, Amhara and Oromia regions, with a capital of 3.9 billion Birr in total.<\/p>\n<p>The director-general has further called on the Ethiopian community to actively participate in national issues and investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. Addis Ababa July 14\/2021 (ENA) The Ethiopian Diaspora have sent 3. 3 billion USD remittance during the 11 months of the concluded budget year and invested 37.8 billon Birr during same period, according to the Ethiopian Diaspora Agency. Ethiopian Diaspora Agency Director-General, Selamawit Dawit told ENA that the diaspora transferred the highest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":6026,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,8],"tags":[233,277,235],"class_list":["post-6027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-ethiopia-2","tag-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopian Diaspora Remits Over 3 Billion USD in 11 Months - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Addis Ababa July 14\/2021 (ENA) The Ethiopian Diaspora have sent 3. 3 billion USD remittance during the 11 months of the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethiopian Diaspora Remits Over 3 Billion USD in 11 Months\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Addis Ababa July 14\/2021 (ENA) The Ethiopian Diaspora have sent 3. 3 billion USD remittance during the 11 months of the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ethiopia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-07-14T17:31:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/07\/img-60ef1d8c1c961.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"373\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Ethiopian Diaspora Remits Over 3 Billion USD in 11 Months\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-07-14T17:31:39+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\"},\"wordCount\":185,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/sites\/50\/2021\/07\/img-60ef1d8c1c961.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Ethiopia\",\"ethiopia\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopian-diaspora-remits-over-3-billion-usd-in-11-months\",\"name\":\"Ethiopian Diaspora Remits Over 3 Billion USD in 11 Months - 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