WB MOVES IN

Ousmane Dione (left), country director for Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan for the World Bank Group, shares a light moment with Tadesse Tilahun, CEO of National Oil Ethiopia (NOC)


WB MOVES IN

Ousmane Dione (left), country director for Eritrea, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan for the World Bank Group, shares a light moment with Tadesse Tilahun, CEO of National Oil Ethiopia (NOC) on August 19, 2021, during a signing ceremony held between their two institutions. After a year of negotiation, NOC rented out seven floors of its new headquarters on Africa Avenue, in front of Friendship City Centre, to the World Bank in an agreement that will last for half a decade.


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