Officials are toiling to radically overhaul the education system after experiencing a "shock" from a minuscule number of 12th-grade students passing the average grade to make it to college. Amid official blaming shifting, the students become victims...
Feb 4 , 2023
The auto market foresees changes as a draft proclamation of excise tax on imported vehicles is revised. An amendment to the cylinder capacity (CC) of vehicles imported and the amount of excise tax the...
Feb 4 , 2023
A ship carrying half a million quintals of urea arrived at the Djibouti ports last week. The amount accounts for nearly five percent of the total fertilizer imports scheduled for the year, while the...
For thousands of Hibret Bank's shareholders who congregated at the Inter-luxury Hotel in November for a general assembly and marked their bank's service for a quarter of a century, praising profit oug...
Feb 4 , 2023
The Ethiopian Capital Market Authority officials revealed up to a dozen directives currently in the...
Feb 4 , 2023
Government employees and associations gathered voluntarily longing to get houses, are met with a cou...
Feb 4 , 2023
The 18-year-old Nuhamin Admasu seems indifferent about her school-leaving exam result. She scored 201 out of 600. The social science student claims she was not anxious even before seeing her results as she expected the outcome. She said her secondary...
Feb 4 , 2023
Rene Lefort is a French journalist with a keen interest in Ethiopia, spanning over half a century. His regular and extensive writings on abounding things in Ethiopia reflect his understanding of nuances, informed and shaped by decades of intense enga...
Feb 4 , 2023
Project Syndicate (PS): You have often pointed out that inflation has been exacerbated by trade protectionism, which weakens the market competition that induces firms to keep prices low, and by immigration restrictions, which lock in labour shortages. At a time when a return to unfettered globalizat...
Jan 24 , 2023
total merchandise imports in dollars, indicating a 27.8pc annual growth during the fourth quarter of 2021/22, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia.
Feb 4 , 2023
Leaders of the National Election Board are in a charm offensive mood, of a sort. Last week, they organised a rare tour for members of the media, showcasing what polling stations will look like during the upcoming national elections; and they took the...
Oct 3 , 2020
Steven Were Omamo, a former country director of the World Food Programme (WFP) for Ethiopia, blamed leaders of the international aid community for asserting famine during the war in northern Ethiopia without the necessary food insecurity data to underpin it. In a recently released book, “At the Centre of the World in Ethiopia,” he admitted “without a doubt” that there was deep food insecurity in the Tigray Regional State.
It was amidst the misty and gloomy national school leaving exam result last week, the dismal performance started to run amok in my mind. From the frying pan to the fire, the ramification of...
Feb 4 , 2023
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