One fine mid-morning last week, Imran Muhedin, 36, visited the Ethio Credit Systems (ECS) showroom to buy a 2020 model Suzuki Dzire vehicle. He sustained an accident a while back, driving on the Addis-Adama expressway with his carbon blue Toyota Vitz...
Jan 21 , 2023
Fewer couples tied the knot in 2022 than the year before; the post-pandemic environment could be attributed to over 12,000 more married couples in that year compared to two years ago. The merriment se...
Jan 21 , 2023
A women's rehabilitation and skill development centre foresees construction as Mayor Adanech Abiebie laid the cornerstone two weeks ago. The 3.1 billion Br project lies on 5.1hct land located around Q...
Contractors are apprehensive about buying a policy from insurance companies as the requisite for collateral is half the performance bond. After insurers started to require collateral for policies, the...
Two federal offices of the highest stature saw newly appointed young leaders installed last week. Pa...
Jan 21 , 2023
Ethiopian Airlines' entry seems to have irked domestic airlines in Nigeria the wrong way, as they ca...
Jan 21 , 2023
One fine mid-morning last week, Imran Muhedin, 36, visited the Ethio Credit Systems (ECS) showroom to buy a 2020 model Suzuki Dzire vehicle. He sustained an accident a while back, driving on the Addis-Adama expressway with his carbon blue Toyota Vitz...
Jan 21 , 2023
Eyob Tekalign, state minister for Finance, took to social media platforms last week to sanitise the speculative market of an impending devaluation of the Birr against a basket of major currencies. He tried to debunk the widely and long-held market pe...
Jan 21 , 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
Jan 7 , 2023
the capital account registered in US dollars in surplus during the third quarter of 2021/22, decreasing by 62.5pc from the same period last year, according to the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE).
Jan 21 , 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
Eyob Tekalign (PhD), state minister for Finance, posted on his Twitter page on January 19, 2023, dispelling persistent and widespread speculations that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's (PhD) administration is considering devaluing the Birr against a basket of major currencies.
I was engulfed with reflections on what I have been through since Christmas. Nothing could come close to the spirit surrounding holidays here, as the feel of cuisine and praising the virtue...
Jan 21 , 2023