Driving license

You will need an Ethiopian driving license to drive a car in Ethiopia. To obtain this, you need to go through the following steps:

1. Translation of foreign driving license:

Where: Your country’s embassy
Documents required: Foreign driving license; passport
Costs: Embassies have different prices

2. Approval of the translation:

Where: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, room No. 4
Documents needed: Foreign driving license
Translation by the Embassy
Costs: 320.00 Birr

3. Applying for a driving license:

Where: Roads Authority (at Megenanya)
Documents needed: Translation with approval stamp
Passport-size photograph
Photocopy of the foreign driving license
Photocopy of passport
Foreign driving license
Costs: 100.00 Birr + 5.00 Birr stamp (to be bought at Office No.1)