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Insurance Firms Race to Acquire Core Systems to Meet Regulator's Demand

Apr 22 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

The insurance industry scrambles to acquire core insurance systems following a demand...

Foreign Capital to Enter Digital Financial Services

Apr 16 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Central bank regulators are set to introduce a bill that will allow foreign investors...

Flower Exporters Grumble Over Changing Rules, Revised Floor Prices

Apr 9 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Ethiopia's central bank has set a threshold price for the exports of fresh-cut flower...

Comm'n Authorities Contemplate to Enforce Building Code for Telecom Infrastructure

Mar 26 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

The allocation and use of land to erect telecom infrastructure is to be standardized...

Safaricom Ethiopia Orders Three Million SIM Cards

Mar 19 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Safaricom Ethiopia Plc has placed an order to buy the first batch of three million su...

Siinqee Bank Inches Closer to Industry Debut

Mar 19 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Siinqee Bank moves one step closer to joining the banking industry with the appointme...

Ministry Looks Outward to Overhaul 'Underachieving' Enterprises

Mar 12 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

The Ministry of Finance is to hire a consultant to carry out a strategic assessment o...

Banks Struggle to Complete Depositors' Data as Regulators Grant Deadline Extension

Mar 12 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Commercial banks are struggling to complete a mandatory requirement of the central ba...

Suspend Digital Remittance Platform: Central Bank Tells Abyssinia

Mar 12 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Regulators at the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) have ordered digital remittance pla...

Exporters Find New Forex Rules Bitter Pill to Swallow

Mar 5 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Businesses in the floriculture industry thought they had seen the worst when the COVI...

Safaricom to Launch Video, MMS Pending Deal with Ethio telecom

Mar 5 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

Safaricom Ethiopia Plc is testing video calls and multimedia messaging services (MMS...

Govt Fails in Forex Allocation to Palm Oil Imports as Global Prices Surge

Mar 5 , 2022 . By HAWI DADHI

An exorbitant rise in international prices for crude palm oil threatens to undermine...

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...