Archive · Ethiopia
All 3 archive entries on Ethiopia, most recent first.
On 1 March 2026 the National Bank of Ethiopia declared all birr-paired peer-to-peer cryptocurrency transactions illegal unless explicitly authorised, citing foreign exchange manipulation, fraud and the absence of AML safeguards.
A year after Ethiopia enacted the Personal Data Protection Proclamation No.
Proclamation 1321/2024 carries penalties of up to 4% of turnover and prison terms, yet two years after publication in the Federal Negarit Gazette the ECA has issued none of its four planned implementing directives, opened no registration portal and brought no enforcement action that we could find.
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