
Ethiopia’s FX Market Whiplash: Inside the Parallel Rate Spike, Bank Adjustments, and NBE’s $150M Firepower
In the span of just a few days, Ethiopia’s foreign exchange market went from chaos to crackdown and possibly, a new kind of clarity. By the end of July, the unofficial (parallel) market exchange rate had breached 170 birr per USD, igniting panic among traders, importers, and the diaspora. The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE)

