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Government Nurtures Business Startups

Jul 6 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Anduamlak Mehariw and Egzieryalew Ayele graduated from Addis Abeba Institute of Techn...

Paying Traffic Fines Makes Turn for the Worse

Jun 15 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

On the morning of June 2, 2019, Hassen Mujib, a curtain shop owner near Piassa, Addis...

New Petroleum Retailer Joins Market

Jun 15 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

ODAA Integrated Transport S.C, part of the economic revolution in the Oromia Regional State, has joined the local petrol...

MIDROC to Expand Share of Dairy Market

Jun 8 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Lame Dairy, the processor of Shola Milk and one of the 70 subsidiaries of MIDROC Ethi...

Chinese Firm Doubles Industrial Parks it Operates

Jun 1 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Huajian Dongguan Hua Bao Shoes Co Ltd increased the number of industrial parks it ope...

Bill Takes Shape to Avoid Public Project Delays, Cost Overruns

Jun 1 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

The government has drafted a proclamation that will introduce a new system that deleg...

Low Wages Cast Shadow on Industrial Parks

May 25 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

In her mid-20s, Tizita Eyamo  is one of 25,172 workers at the nation's flagship indu...

Oil Retailers Association Adds a New Member

May 11 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

TAF Oil Plc, one of 28 oil retail companies, became the Ethiopian Oil Companies Assoc...

With Cakes and Pastries, Hotels Sweeten Easter

Apr 26 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Ferdinand Akakpo, a chef from Benin, came to Ethiopia in 2015 to join the new staff o...

Crowd Funding on Rise to Help Displaced

Apr 26 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Michael Melake, a landscape designer who works in Addis Abeba, was only 12 when the s...

Wheat Supply Queues to Fill Sharp Supply Gap

Apr 20 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Ethiopia is procuring an additional 400,000tn of milling wheat to stabilise the local...

Netherlands Grants Nation First Pediatric Hospital

Apr 13 , 2019 . By NOEL MINWAGAW

Alert Medical Facility is building a new children's hospital after securing a fresh ...

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...