The soaring price of milk is becoming increasingly unaffordable, uncovering a deepening crisis in the dairy industry. Households are feeling the pinch as prices recently jumped by 20pc, leaving families struggling to meet basic nutritional needs, par...
May 17 , 2025
Ethiopian Investment Holdings (EIH) has stepped into the Treasury Bill (T-bill) market for the first time, investing nearly seven billion Birr, marking a notable shift for commercial entities in the p...
May 17 , 2025
The foreign exchange market had a telling week, and the story was all in the margins. Last week, the Central Bank nudged its official cash-buying rate from 130.47 Br to 132.17 Br for a dollar, a small...
May 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
In a sweeping move that has triggered applause from regulators and alarm among small operators, the...
May 17 , 2025
A new measure from the Addis Abeba Revenue Bureau (AARB) makes commercial landlords partly accountab...
May 17 , 2025
The Federal Tax Appeals Commission is preparing to open regional branch offices next year in the Amh...
May 17 , 2025
Azeb Asamen sat in the modest living room of her small home near Haile Garment Square, in the southern outskirts of Addis Abeba, her brow furrowed as she stared at the empty milk container beside her. At 42, and with four children to feed, she felt r...
May 17 , 2025
Ethiopia pours more than three billion Birr a year into academic research, yet too much of that money is vanishing into a sinkhole of low-quality work. Since 2001, when the country contributed a mere 261 Scopus-indexed (the world's largest databas...
May 17 , 2025
Jens Hanefeld, Germany's envoy in Addis Abeba, touched down last September with a resume that mixes three decades of diplomacy, a decade running Volkswagen's global lobbying shop and the trained eye of a historian. Serving as ambassador to Ethiopia and Berlin's permanent representative to the Africa...
May 17 , 2025
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May 17 , 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
Getachew Reda, former chief administrator of the Interim Regional Administration of Tigray (IRAT), in a long and two-part interview with Fana Broadcasting, characterised the senior leadership of the TPLF, from which he has been disgruntled lately.
A leisurely Sunday afternoon at a coffee shop near Mekanisa Abo Mazoria turned into a spontaneous adventure. Over coffee, my friend mentioned a nearby park often described as a nature lover's paradise, Zoma Museum. I had heard about it in...
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