With connections collapsing at peak hours and “unlimited” packages proving anything but, digital workers struggle to convince global clients they can deliver. Software developers are painfully familiar with the patchy internet. Some days, the con...
Aug 17 , 2025
The federal government, led by the Ministry of Agriculture, is finalising a sweeping licensing regime that will introduce formal regulation to a predominantly subsistence-based fishing sector. The...
Aug 17 , 2025
The Birr's (Brewed Buck) market against the Dollar (Green Buck) advanced in neat formation over six trading sessions last week. Private lenders marched almost shoulder to shoulder, policymakers fixed...
Aug 17 , 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
More than 120,000 government employees in Addis Abeba are racing to collect coding certificates unde...
Aug 17 , 2025
Two new insurance companies, Standard Insurance and Was Insurance, are poised to join the fragmented...
Aug 17 , 2025
Siinqee Bank is set launch an investment banking subsidiary with a registered capital of 497 million...
Aug 17 , 2025
On a weekday afternoon in Addis Abeba, when remote workers were buried in trans-Atlantic calls and racing to meet deadlines, software developer Oliyad Takele sat in front of a frozen screen. For four years, he has battled with an internet connection...
Aug 17 , 2025
A decade ago, a case in the United States (US) jolted Wall Street. An ambulance operator in the State of Arizona had, in 2011, accepted a buy-out that valued it below earlier indications. Shareholders said their bankers, lured by lucrative financing...
Aug 16 , 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 federal government wage bill in Birr for the fiscal year 2025/26, a 70pc jump from last year. Wage bills typically increase incrementally with inflation and changes in headcount. The sharp increase signals either a massive salary adjustment on the way.
Aug 16 , 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
Legesse Tulu (PhD), minister of the Government Communications Service, addressed an audience gathered last week at the launching of an app by the state-owned Ethiopia Broadcasting Corporation (EBC).
Digital technology was supposed to disperse power. Early internet visionaries hoped that the revolution they were unleashing would empower individuals to free themselves from ignorance, poverty, and tyranny. And for a while, at least, it di...
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