Leather Industry Stumbles in Value Addition

Days of Fuel Shortages Wrench Capital

Days of Fuel Shortages Wrench Capital

January 19 , 2019 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Menna Gizaw, 33, was one of the thousands of drivers that queued at a fuel filling station for hours to fill up her car after fuel shortages hit Addis Abeba last week. She has been sitting in her Toyota Corolla, her t...

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

January 12 , 2019 . By MADEBO GIRMA

The past two weeks did not bode well for the relationship between landlord Getaneh GebreHana and his eight tenants. After Ethiopian Electric Utility adjusted prices upward he was forced to be strict with his tenants a...

Gena Arrives With Stable Prices in Local Markets

Gena Arrives With Stable Prices in Local Markets

January 6 , 2019 . By KALAEB GIRMA and MADEBO GIRMA

The last item on Askalech Debele’s holiday shopping list is chicken, and she needs three of them. Askalech, a housewife and mother of 12, is in her early 60s. “I had been preparing for the holiday for the past wee...

Commercial Properties See Rate Hikes: Indignation, Resignation by Tenants

Commercial Properties See Rate Hikes: Indignation, Resignation by Tenants

December 29 , 2018 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Alemayehu Befikadu, a deputy manager for a plastics manufacturing factory, was busy organising a demonstration by tenants against rent hikes on a commercial property owned by the Federal Housing Corpo...

Alemayehu Befikadu, a deputy manager for a plastics manufacturing fact...

Civil Societies Welcome Bill, with Reservations

Civil Societies Welcome Bill, with Reservations

December 25 , 2018 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Kassa Guchero, a farmer in Gamo Gofa zone of southern regional state, was one of the beneficiaries of a civil society organization (CSO) when he found himself in dire straits with his local Kebele adm...

Kassa Guchero, a farmer in Gamo Gofa zone of southern regional state,...

Political Changes Perks Publication Business

Political Changes Perks Publication Business

December 19 , 2018 . By KALAEB GIRMA

Yohannes Getachew, a public servant in his 40s, looks forward to the weekends when most of the nation’s newspapers and magazines come out. He says he prefers reading newspapers, instead of social me...

Yohannes Getachew, a public servant in his 40s, looks forward to the w...

Public Universities Feel the Heat of Nation's Political Tension

Public Universities Feel the Heat of Nation's Political Tension

December 5 , 2018 . By BERHANE HAILEMARIAM

Melat Yohannes is the fictitious name of a senior studying computer science at Gondar University. She has not attended her classes at the university since last Thursday, November 22, 2018, when an alt...

Melat Yohannes is the fictitious name of a senior studying computer sc...

Telecom Tariffs Recede, Demand Surges, Service Plumets

Telecom Tariffs Recede, Demand Surges, Service Plumets

November 27 , 2018 . By MIHRET G. KIRISTOS and NOEL MINWAGAW

Simon Derge has been running his small cyber cafe, Simon Internet Café, located around Lancha in Addis Abeba for the past four years. His internet cafe, which provides convenience and ease of acce...

Simon Derge has been running his small cyber cafe, Simon Internet Caf�...