The scenes have become all too familiar. Torrents of rain batter the city, transforming boulevards into brown rivers, swallowing vehicles, drowning commerce, and mocking the authorities' infrastructure blueprints. While the skies may clear, the wreck...
Aug 2 , 2025
Regulators at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) have confirmed the appointment of Mulugeta Beza as Ahadu Bank's third president in as many years. The appointment marks a crucial leadership transitio...
Aug 2 , 2025
The experiment with a freely traded Birr, or one managed in a floating manner in practice, was a year old last week, and the numbers tell a story of both promise and fragility. On July 29, 2024, Ce...
Aug 3 , 2025
Siinqee Bank has burst confidently from microfinance trenches into the competitive commercial banking industry, posting an impressive profit surge that outshone many peers. Its net profit jumped by 8...
May 11 , 2025
A sweeping new directive has been issued, marking a shift in the governance of state-owned enterpris...
Aug 2 , 2025
Federal authorities in the agricultural sector are placing a strategic bet on an indigenous crop tha...
Aug 2 , 2025
A long standing corporate dispute over Cosmo Trading Plc has resurfaced at the Federal Supreme Court...
Aug 2 , 2025
getachew Shiferaw felt the danger before he saw it. On July 24, 2025, the midday sky above Addis Abeba darkened, and rain began to hammer the capital in sheets. A manager of the OLA gas station café on Menelik II Ave., across from St. Estifanos Chur...
Aug 3 , 2025
At daybreak on Thursday last week, July 31, 2025, hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians fanned out across parks, highways, and riverbanks, seedlings in hand, driven to smash what organisers say was another record. The federal government had vowe...
Aug 2 , 2025
The UNDP has expanded its narrative from “poverty eradication” to what Ahunna Eziakonwa, the UN's assistant secretary-general, calls “promoting prosperity,” combining the usual public investments in schools, hospitals and natural-resource management with new pushes to draw in private money a...
Aug 3 , 2025
The number of hectares covered with saplings in a single day last Wednesday, July 29, as part of the government's campaign to plant 700 million trees in 24 hours. If confirmed, it would represent more than 10pc of all reforested land achieved over five years between 2015/16 and 2020/21, illustrating the scale and speed of the current initiative, or the ambition of its reporting.
Aug 2 , 2025
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
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) welcomed dignitaries, including Kenyan President William Ruto (PhD), to a state dinner at Jubilee Palace, which he described as “a witness to Ethiopia’s long and layered history” during a United Nations food systems summit last week.
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and OpenAI's Sam Altman have been aggressively promoting the idea that everyone, children included, should form relationships with AI "friends" or "companions." Mean...
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