(Adds consortium statement) NAIROBI, May 24 (Reuters) - A consortium led by Kenyan telecoms operator Safaricom aims to start operations in Ethiopia next year, it said on Monday, after winning a licence on Saturday. The consortium, which also includes South Africa’s Vodacom and Britain’s Vodafone, won the licence with a bid of $850 million, government officials in Addis Ababa said on Saturday. “The partners ... will establish a new operating company in Ethiopia which aims to start providing telecommunication services from 2022,” they said in a joint statement. Other partners in the consortium are British development finance agency CDC Group and Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation. Safaricom’s shares rose almost 7% to 42.20 Kenyan shillings ($0.3911) at one point, though one trader had cautioned that the rally could be short-lived. “This was baked into the price. I think it is a bit of a sugar rush, to last a day or two, and then we move back,” the Nairobi-based trader said. $1 = 107.9000 Kenyan shillings $1 = 107.9000 Kenyan shillings Reporting by Duncan Miriri and Omar Mohammed Editing by George Obulutsa, Kirsten Donovan Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.