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RUTH TAYE

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Telecom, CNET Joined Hands to Add New Telebirr Payment

Dec 4 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Telebirr users will receive a digital payment system that integrates a dynamic QR Cod...

CBE Faces Dilemma on Interest-free Banking Pathway

Nov 12 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Directors and senior managers of the state-owned Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE) mu...

Oromia Taxes Coffee Exporters

Nov 5 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Coffee exporters collecting their beans from farms in the Oromia Regional State are subjected to a new tax imposed by municipalities and wer...

Drug Inspection Authority Reinforces Compliance to Side Effects

Oct 30 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

A federal agency began enforcing strict measures on the quality and safety of drugs available to the publ...

Dukem Aspires for New Master Plan Amid Officials Squabbling

Oct 30 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Municipal authorities of Dukem, 35Km east of the capital, are mulling over selecting consulting firms to...

IT Companies Vying to Bag Sidama Bank CORE Banking Contract

Oct 15 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Sidama Bank, a third-generation financial firm, is hiring a technology company to acquire CORE banking so...

Electric Utility Secures World Bank Fund to Build Solar Hybrid Mini-grid Plant

Oct 8 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

The federal government has secured finance from the World Bank to build a hybrid mini-grid power plant, p...

Tranformer Producers Anxious about Prospect

Oct 8 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Transformer producers have lodged complaints before federal authorities that they are on the verge of clo...

Institute Hopes 800m Br Centre will Fix Construction Industry Ills

Oct 1 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

The Ethiopian Construction Management Institute has hired a consultant to erect an "excellence centre" it...

Less than Sweet: Sugar Troubles Far from Over

Sep 24 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

On a hot, sunny morning last week, three saleswomen inside a narrow container in Addis Abeba's Aqaqi-Qali...

Education Ministry to Roll Out Digital School IDs

Sep 18 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

Federal education authorities have begun rolling out digital identification (ID) for students and teacher...

Agro-Industrial Parks to See Overdue Power Infrastructure

Sep 18 , 2022 . By RUTH TAYE

The construction of power substations and transmission lines in three integrated agro-industrial parks wi...

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...