Addis Abeba's renters and property owners are waiting on a city government decision that will set how far rents can rise under a two-year-old control regime. Owners feel their income has been frozen as costs climb, while tenants fear another bite out...
Jul 4 , 2026
The health sector remains underprovided despite rising public spending, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) told Parliament today, in remarks that laid out where the money has gone and where it has fallen...
Jul 7 , 2026
For most of three decades, Tsedey Bank made its living advancing a few thousand Birr at a time to farmers and traders across the Amhara Regional State. In its first full year as a commercial bank, mov...
Jun 21 , 2026
The Brewed Buck spent last week's foreign-exchange market calmer than the underlying conditions suggested. There was no auction by the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) last week, yet the market did not...
Jul 4 , 2026
A ruling-party lawmaker, Mohammed Ahmed, called the Chamber to its feet for Prime Minister Abiy Ahme...
Jul 7 , 2026
The Ethiopian Airlines Group is preparing to place a firm order for 25 aircraft next month, and the...
Jul 4 , 2026
July has arrived with the heaviest rains of the winter, dark clouds and mist blanketing Addis Abeba each morning. This year, the weather is not the only thing hanging over the capital. Property owners and tenants are waiting for the Addis Abeba Ci...
Jul 4 , 2026
In the goldfields of the Benishangul-Gumuz Regional State, Ethiopia's balance-of-payments problem has taken human form. Around Asosa, Kamashi and Metekel, on the greenstone belt running towards the Sudanese border, gold was long the work of hand t...
Jul 4 , 2026
Fortune: The African Union has made SAATM a priority for next year. Are you happy with the way the project is being handled by the AU and AFCAC? Kamil Al-Awadhi: The AU is talking about SAATM as a priority, but I do not think it will work the way it is being handled now. The AU nominated the proj...
Jun 7 , 2026
The value, in dollars, that Ethiopia generated from electricity exports in 2024/25. The volume of exported electricity grew by five-and-a-half-fold in one year to 2.8 million kilowatt-hours over the same period. However, the average export price fell by 68.2pc, slashing electricity's share of exports to 3.5pc from 4.8pc. Ethiopia is exporting far more electric power, but at heavily discounted contract rates, revealing that volume and price move in opposite directions with unusual force.
Jul 4 , 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
Mohamed Siad Doualeh, Djibouti's permanent representative to the United Nations and his country's ambassador to the United States and Canada, objected to Israel's unilateral recognition of Somaliland as a sovereign state, calling it "reckless decision" and in "defiance" of the UN Charter. Speaking before the UN Security Council last week, the Ambassador urged member states to respect Somalia's internationally recognised borders.
There is a street in Addis Abeba where two worlds meet for the length of a red light. A mother stood at the edge of the road, one child strapped to her back, another gripping the hem of h...
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