Kegna Beverages on Saturday, June 14, 2025, uncorked its first bottles of Kegna Beer, a domestically owned, five percent ABV lager brewed in the West Shewa Zone of Oromia Regional State, marking what regional officials hailed as a fresh chapter for t...
Jun 15 , 2025
The federal government presented legislators with a budget proposal for the fiscal year 2025/26, marking an unprecedented shift in the country's fiscal approach. The budget bill totals 1.93 trillio...
Jun 15 , 2025
The tightly managed currency market looked calm last week, yet beneath the surface, banks were jockeying for position in ways that unveiled deeper pressures ahead. Over the six trading days beginni...
Jun 15 , 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
A three-year effort by the Audit Stakeholders Forum to restore fiscal discipline across federal inst...
Jun 15 , 2025
Environmental authorities have signalled a shift toward regulatory intervention, introducing a usage...
Jun 15 , 2025
Unilever, the British-Dutch multinational, has become the first foreign company licensed to import f...
Jun 15 , 2025
Meseret Mulle rises before dawn in the crowded quarter around Golagol Tower, waking her two sons, aged 13 and eight, in the single “kebele” house they share. At 35, she cleans homes in Gerji, a two-hour walk each way when she cannot spare the far...
Jun 8 , 2025
Yet again, the Horn of Africa is bracing for trouble. A region already frayed by wars almost every other decade in nearly 70 years, now hears a rising chorus of turmoil. Ethiopia's leaders have become vocal, arguing that a country with more than ...
Jun 14 , 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
The value in Birr of the pension fund moblised from 2.5 million employees hired by the private sector in the fiscal year 2024/25.
Jun 14 , 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
In a four-part interview on state broadcaster EBC, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) said that how Ethiopia became a landlocked country ranks high among his regrets.
At a weekend bazaar hosted at the Zobras Olympiakos Greek Club, I stumbled upon a Frenchman with a ponytail and fluent Amharic. He ran a stall offering herbal tea, wild honey, and artisanal...
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