{"id":28185,"date":"2023-07-20T15:01:50","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:01:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/20\/ethiopias-opal-market-government-keen-to-boost-and-regulate-opal-trade\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T13:01:50","slug":"ethiopias-opal-market-government-keen-to-boost-and-regulate-opal-trade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/2023\/07\/20\/ethiopias-opal-market-government-keen-to-boost-and-regulate-opal-trade\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia&rsquo;s opal market: Government keen to boost and regulate opal trade"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Opal is a spectacular stone with unique, and beautiful reflections. In Ethiopia, deposits were discovered in 2008 in the north of the country, and it quickly the world&rsquo;s second-largest exporter. In 2021, the trade brought in $2.6 million. But this is nothing compared to the income opal could generate for the economy. What\u2019s needed is a better legal framework, more skilled workers, private investment and better global marketing. And the government is gearing up to make those things happen: it wants mining to make up 17% of GDP. FRANCE 24&rsquo;s Clothilde Hazard reports.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opal is a spectacular stone with unique, and beautiful reflections. In Ethiopia, deposits were discovered in 2008 in the north of the country, and it quickly the world&rsquo;s second-largest exporter. In 2021, the trade brought in $2.6 million. But this is nothing compared to the income opal could generate for the economy. What\u2019s needed is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4],"class_list":["post-28185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-headlines","tag-africa","tag-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.net\/afrique\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}