Finance Minister Ahmed Shide entered the last quarter of the fiscal year with a budget under pressure and a financing plan stretched by delayed foreign support. The Minister's nine-month report showed the federal government borrowing faster from t...
May 9 , 2026
At the Federal High Court's Lideta Division, on Dejazmach Bekele Weya Street, one of the government's largest public-corruption prosecutions of the year began last week with a crowded courtroom, a lat...
May 9 , 2026
Siinqee Bank's performance in its latest year reads like the arrival notice of a four-year-old commercial bank. Born from microfinance and transformed into commercial banking in April 2022, it ende...
May 9 , 2026
The foreign-exchange board's last week offered a deceptively quiet picture of the market. The implied depreciation was 0.05pc in six days, an unmistakably slow crawl. The calm is striking because t...
May 9 , 2026
Safaricom's Ethiopian bet, defined by the cost of entering one of Africa's last closed telecom marke...
May 9 , 2026
A bill before federal lawmakers last week extends the mandatory contribution system to cyber protect...
May 3 , 2026
Luladay Abraham treats the arrival of her menstrual cycle less as a private inconvenience than as a monthly test of endurance. The 32-year-old accountant, who works for a construction firm on Gabon Street and lives in CMC, has hypermenorrhea, an unus...
May 9 , 2026
The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politically convenient and administratively tempting yet economically burdensome for its citizens. It has gotten itself into an addiction where mandatory contributions behave...
May 9 , 2026
Fortune: Given the United Kingdom's long history with Ethiopia, is there a change of view about its role in East Africa's economic and climate future? McLoughlin: We are recalibrating our approach in recognition of Ethiopia's increased importance, particularly on climate and economic transformati...
May 3 , 2026
The percentage of candidates running under independent platforms out of a total of 10,933 candidates registered with the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) for the national polls scheduled for June 2026.
May 9 , 2026
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
The European Union’s (EU) Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, Anouar El Anouni, issued a statement on April 30, 2026, voicing the EU's concerns, calling for immediate de-escalation, and warning against actions that could imperil the Pretoria Deal. The statement came amid rising tensions after the TPLF moved to restore the pre-war political structures in Tigray Regional State, a step that challenged the Interim Administration, led by Tadesse Werede (Lt. Gen.), created under the Pretoria agreement. Days later, the restored regional council elected Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD), the TPLF chairman, as regional president, reviving the political order associated with the disputed 2020 regional election, one of the flashpoints in the breakdown of relations between the federal government and teh TPLF before the civil war.
At a close friend's "Shimgilina", a traditional betrothal intercession, I saw how the old rules remain visibly present. They had merely moved into a modern setting, softe...
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