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MADEBO GIRMA

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Whiteboard Sales by Street Vendors Dismay Stationary Stores

Feb 23 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

For Almaz Nigusse, a grandmother in her 60s, the education of her grandchildren is he...

Ministry Incubates Innovation Hub

Feb 9 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The Ministry of Innovation & Technology has set up a six-million-birr incubation centre to encourage innovators in the technology sector...

City Abattoir Invests in Water Treatment

Feb 2 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The city's state-owned slaughterhouse corporation is building a primary wastewater treatment plant at its...

Tiret Ventures into Milk Processing Plant

Feb 2 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

Tiret Corporate, an endowment fund affiliated with the Amhara Democratic Party (ADP), is investing 47 mil...

Debre Birhan Drills Down

Feb 2 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

Two deepwater wells, which will supply potable water for 40,000 people, are being built in Debre Birhan at a cost of 42 million Br. The p...

E-Gov Struggles to Steady Amid Stumbles

Feb 2 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

Minilik Tesfaye, a graduate of Adama Science & Technology University in computer science, owns a year...

CBE to Take Over Electronic Utility Billing from Kifiya

Jan 26 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

Electric utility bill payments services, which have been handled by Kifiya Financial Technologies, will b...

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

Jan 12 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The past two weeks did not bode well for the relationship between landlord Getaneh GebreHana and his eigh...

Grow or Give Up Licenses: Bureau to Small Businesses

Dec 29 , 2018 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The City Small & Micro Enterprises Development Bureau is drafting a directive to compel small and mic...

Board Creates Data Centre for Financial Info

Dec 29 , 2018 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The Accounting & Audit Board of Ethiopia (AABE) invested five million Birr to build a data centre tha...

New Bottled Water Hits Market

Sep 24 , 2018 . By MADEBO GIRMA and Girma feyissa (Fortune stuff writer)

A new bottled water brand, Tena Water, will join the thriving water bottling industry. Built in Soro w...

Passport Tease: New Requirements For Passports Create Outrage

Dec 10 , 2018 . By MADEBO GIRMA

Selamawit Eshetu, who is in her mid-20s, was at the Main Department of Immigration & Nationality Affa...

Commentaries

The Geopolitical Battle Over Monetary Infrastructure

The development of payment infrastructure in emerging-market economies (EMEs), from i...

Making Roads Pathways of Progress, Not Corridors of Grief

For decades, Ethiopia's roads have been described through the language of fate. The d...

Fineline

Leaders of the National . . .

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 me...

When the country’s most. . .

When the country's most senior diplomats and envoys return back to their posts after two-week debriefings, they leave behind a point or two...

Editorial

Every Encounter with the State Should Not Become an Invoice

May 9 , 2026

The Ethiopian state appears to have discovered a fiscal instrument that is politicall...

National Dialogue Has Everything But the Trust It Needs

May 2 , 2026

By the time Ethiopia's National Dialogue Commission (ENDC) reached the end of its fir...

Addis Abeba's Roads Reveal a Country Where the Powerful Drive Through the Law

Apr 25 , 2026

In a political community, official speeches show what governments want their citizens...

Ethiopia's New Diplomacy Essence Could Be About Shielding Sovereignty

For much of the past three decades, Ethiopia occupied a familiar place in the Western...

Gallery

Parliament Approves New Cabinet Members

Oct 6 , 2021

Parliament Approves New Cabinet, Incorporates Opposition Leaders Lawmakers have approved today the nominations of 22 ministers, including three opposition leaders. Two MPs have voted against, while 12 abstained...

2020 in Posterity

Jan 5 , 2021

TIGRAY VOTES DESPITE "NULL & VOID" THREAT

Sep 9 , 2020

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION  

Dec 14 , 2019

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

Apr 26 , 2019

Sunday With Eden

The Silence That Leadership Can't Keep

A few days ago, I attended a virtual conference in Canada that stayed with me, not be...

Development That Redraws the Rent Line

Urban renewal is often sold as a promise: cleaner streets, safer neighbourhoods, bett...

Life Matters

Motivation Drops as the Day Begins in Sleepwear

We have all seen the aesthetic. The “work from home” dream usually comes packaged...

The Final Exam No One Prepared For

The first time I heard about the “Mesob” one-stop service initiative, relief came quickly. It sounded like a promise to citizens worn do...