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Jul 3 , 2021

Starting Business Never Gets Easier

Finding a job in the Ethiopian labour market had been all but a pleasant experience for Lamesgen Wubshet, a graduate of computer engineering from Meqelle University. He spent three years in search aft...

Jun 26 , 2021

In the Shadow of War, Voters Give Electoral Verdict

This past Monday was the second time Belay Zerihun, a second-time voter, has had to stand in a long queue over the past couple of months. The first time was in early May when he went to get his voter...

Jun 19 , 2021

How Could This Happen?

A mother of three, Netsanet Hadgu, usually buys consumer goods once a month. However, when her family goes through those goods faster than she thought, the 42-year-old widow prefers to walk to the nea...

Jun 12 , 2021

With the New Budget Bill Comes Deficit Financing Fear

The central bank released its much-anticipated report for the second quarter last week, albeit it did so almost five months later than it was initially expected to. It was not like any other, covering...

Jun 5 , 2021

The Great Bank Rush for Digital Gold

For domestic businesses with a robust presence in the global market, the inability to accept small online payments from international customers remains beyond incomprehensible. It is a frustrating ord...

May 29 , 2021

Petrified Labour Cries  over Burdensome Living Costs

The day Rabia Ali found a job was unforgettable for her family. She had to walk for two hours from her homeland, Siyomba, a small town in Amhara Regional State, to apply for the job at Kombolcha Indus...

May 23 , 2021

Shadows of the Glittering Bonanza

This past Tuesday, the luxurious Sheraton Addis hotel was the venue for a rather unique event hosted by the Ministry of Mines & Petroleum (MoMP). The hotel was bustling with a motley crowd that se...

May 15 , 2021

The Medical Sector Breathes, Amidst Need for More Air

A sharp and deafening noise exhales from an oxygen production centre in the Saris neighbourhood, Nefas Silk District. Two sets of enormous machines operate at full capacity; they are so overpowering...

May 8 , 2021

Voters Caught Between Vapid Elections and a Precarious Place

A 50-year old mother, Aster Amsalu, and her son, 26, began their search for an electoral office early in the morning on May 3, 2020. They could not have registered during the earlier days when officia...

Apr 30 , 2021

Easter Market Feeling the Pressure

To anyone who had visited Shola Gebeya two months ago, it may have looked like one of Addis Abeba's popular open markets was under self-imposed lockdown. Idle traders hungry for customers, sleepy shop...

Apr 24 , 2021

Remittance, Losing its Battle Against the Parallel Market

Opened a few weeks ago, the Birmaji branch of the Cooperative Bank of Oromia (CBO), on Africa Avenue (Bole Road), was quiet and empty around lunchtime on Thursday. Two staff, an accountant and a custo...

Apr 17 , 2021

What's Interest Free for Banking, Takaful for Insurance on Market

It was an African invention, first developed in Sudan in the 1970s. An Arabic word roughly translated to "shared responsibility," Takaful is an insurance policy introduced to Ethiopia by a company in...

Apr 10 , 2021

On Forex Front, New Rules Bring New Problems

For Fitsum Alemayehu (MD), general manager of Biotech Plc, an importer of pharmaceuticals, the waiting for approval to open letters of credit is unusually long. It has been one year and three months s...

Apr 3 , 2021

Ethiopia Lives Through the Worst of Times

A 59-year-old man, an actor by profession, fell severely ill about five months ago. His son, Binyam, and his family took him to St. Yared Hospital to get him a check-up, unsure of what his illness mi...

Mar 27 , 2021

NO PLACE LIKE HOME: The Fate of Tigray’s Displaced

Merhawit's days in the town of Mai Kadra, Tigray Regional State, were mostly calm and quiet. She worked shifts at the local health centre and cooked her lunch at home, where she lived alone. A regular...

Mar 20 , 2021

Mobile Money Pioneers Brace for Ethio Telecom's Entrance into Sector

It was a humid day out in Addis Abeba's streets where customers sat comfortably away from the heat in a breezy location at a coffee shop, Tomoca, in the old railway station near La Gare. The shop, fam...


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