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NEJAT AHMED

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TROUBLED HIBER SUGAR DIRECTORS PROPOSE INVESTMENT SWITCH

May 8 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

The embattled Hiber Sugar Share Company eyes new investment opportunities in the agri...

Traders Blame Taxation, Instability for Surging Beef Prices

May 8 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

The market price of beef has gone up by as much as 150 Br a kilo in the past week due...

Factories, Importers Hit by Forex Retention Rules Call for Preferential Treatment

May 8 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Factories located in industrial parks and importers are petitioning the government fo...

Coffee Processor Looks to Boost Value-Added Exports

Apr 30 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Hebron Ethiopia Trading Plc, a company operating in Yirgalem Agro-Industrial Park, is...

Second Interest Free Bank Acquires 130m Br Headquarters

Apr 30 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Ethiopia's second interest-free bank has debuted service in a building it acquired fo...

Catering Flourishes as Traditions Fade

Apr 30 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Last year, Yitayish Abebe, a mother of four, attended a family event. The occasion wa...

A TREND TO WATCH  Pay-TV in Ethiopia

Apr 30 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Henok Mehari is a musician who founded the Mehari Brothers musical band in 2006. In a...

Komari Introduces Hard Seltzer to Ethiopia

Apr 24 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

A new line of flavoured alcoholic beverages hit the shelves this past week with the l...

Voters Registration Faces Major Hiccups as Electoral Offices Remain Unopened

Apr 17 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Voter registration for the upcoming national elections has been far below expectation...

Dashen Among First to Launch International e-Commerce Gateway

Apr 17 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Dashen Bank has kicked off international e-commerce gateway services with three major...

Ethiopia Spends Over $660m to Import 1.8m Tonnes Fertiliser

Apr 10 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Ethiopia is spending 27.2 billion Br (over 660 million dollars in the current exchang...

Education Agency Puts Heavy Hand on Unruly Colleges

Apr 10 , 2021 . By NEJAT AHMED

Half-a-dozen private higher learning institutions have been subject to regulatory act...

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...