{"id":21187,"date":"2026-01-13T17:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21187\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T17:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T17:27:08","slug":"efforts-underway-to-make-ethiopia-aviation-hub-ena-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/21187\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts Underway to Make Ethiopia Aviation Hub\u00a0 – ENA English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Addis Ababa, January 13, 2026 (ENA)\u2014Various reform measures are being taken to make Ethiopia an aviation hub, Transport and Logistics Minister Alemu Sime said.<\/p>\n

The Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority has issued licenses for two organizations today. <\/p>\n

One of the licenses was issued to an organization providing maintenance services for private airlines. The institution is in the Ethiopian Air Force.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Similarly, the authority has also issued license to the Aviation Training School to train people in international cargo aviation service.<\/p>\n

Speaking on the occasion, Transport and Logistics Minister Alemu Sime stated that reforms are being taken to make Ethiopia an aviation hub..<\/p>\n

According to him, the Bishoftu International Airport, whose construction was recently launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, will create additional capacity in this regard.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also noted that the licenses granted to the two institutions today in the industry are of great significance. <\/p>\n

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The license given to the Ethiopian Air Force in the maintenance sector will significantly reduce the costs that private airlines spend on aircraft maintenance, he stated. <\/p>\n

Similarly, the other license issued to the Aviation Training School will play a significant role in the national journey to produce skilled manpower in the sector.<\/p>\n

He added that the training will have a positive contribution to the movement to produce professionals beyond Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

Ethiopian Civil Aviation Authority Director-General, Yohannes Abera, said that the accreditation of the institutions has been confirmed as meeting the necessary criteria.<\/p>\n

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The ceremony was also attended by Ethiopian Air Force Commander Lieutenant General Yilma Merdasa and other senior government officials and stakeholders. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa, January 13, 2026 (ENA)\u2014Various reform measures are being taken to make Ethiopia an aviation hub, Transport…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[262,65,305],"class_list":{"0":"post-21187","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-economy","9":"tag-ethiopia","10":"tag-featured"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}