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Apr 12 , 2020

Quarantine Quandary

A 31-year-old businessman and father of two arrived in Addis Abeba on March 24, 2020, a day after the mandatory quarantine for travellers was enforced by the government. The businessman travels to an...

Apr 4 , 2020

Fears of COVID-19 Spread Locks Down Restaurants, Cafes

A mere week ago one of the 11 branches of Tomoca Coffee,  this one located in Piassa, had hundreds of people walk through its doors every day. But this is no longer the case. Following the rising...

Mar 28 , 2020

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

It was such an outrageously windy and sunny day in March; the clouds on the horizon were shaded with blighted, glaring white. The day was both a majestic mixture of patches of clouds with the sun; it...

Mar 21 , 2020

COVID-19 Hits Some Businesses Hard, Yet Blesses Others

In the mid-afternoon of Wednesday, March 18, 2020, Kenema Public Pharmacy, located around the stadium near Ghion Hotel was busy serving people from all walks of life, from teenagers to the elderly. Th...

Mar 21 , 2020

Ethiopia Secures $500m for Reform Agenda

The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank approved half a billion dollars of financing to support the Homegrown Economic Reform Plan, which the government rolled out recently. Half of the...

Mar 14 , 2020

Root Cause Remains Puzzle, Yet Cost of Living Keeps Rising

In the late afternoon of Wednesday, March 11, 2020, Ehil Berenda (cereal crops floor), which is located in Merkato, the largest open market in the capital, was busy as usual. Daily labourers were unlo...

Mar 7 , 2020

Coronavirus Already Infecting Economy

For Abiy Berhanu, the owner of HPC Chemicals & Machineries, an import firm, business has been good until recently. Since the end of January his business has slowed down because of the outbreak...

Feb 29 , 2020

Excise Tax Pounds Beer Market Hard

In the late afternoon of Tuesday, February 25, 2020, Tewodros Kidane, 30, the owner of Adi Bar & Restaurant was sitting outside his business located in Gotera Condominiums. Accompanied by two regu...

Feb 22 , 2020

Anniversary of Armed Struggle Boosts Meqelle Economy

On Tuesday, February 18th, the eve of the 45th anniversary of the Tigrai struggle against the Dergue regime, Meqelle, the capital of Tigray Regional State, was hot. The city was decorated with nati...

Feb 18 , 2020

A Story of the Displaced

In the late afternoon of Tuesday, February 11, 2020, Chaltu Abedela, 40, was in front of her small shop that sells very few fast-moving consumer goods. Surrounded by three of her seven children, she w...

Feb 8 , 2020

ET Maintains China Flights, while Ethiopia Braces for Coronavirus

On the late afternoon of Tuesday, February 4, 2020, over a hundred people milled about inside Addis Abeba Bole International Airport waiting for family, friends or relatives returning from abroad. ...

Feb 1 , 2020

Bank Robbery Rampant as Police Fail to Arrest Perpetrators

Elias Fikadu is one young person who has benefited from the aggressive branch expansion of banks in recent years, which has seen the industry litter their storefronts across nearly every neighbourhood...

Jan 25 , 2020

Liquidity Crisis Hits Banking Industry Hard

On the afternoon of January 14, 2020, Khadija Mustafa sat on the waiting benches at a branch of one of the private banks located near National Stadium. She appeared quite restless as she constantly...

Jan 18 , 2020

Dam Deal: The Devil in the Details

When about 5,391 households, who had been residing in Guba, a village located 17Km from the Sudanese border, were told to resettle to new relocation centres a decade ago, the government had a plan to...

Jan 11 , 2020

Banks Use Prizes as Magnet for Forex Mobilisation

On the eve of Gena, aka Ethiopian Christmas, the capital was bustling with the holiday spirit as the Christian citizenry made preparations for the following day's festivities. Banks were among the...

Jan 5 , 2020

New Excise Tax Accelerates Car Prices

On the road from Agona to Qera, daily labourers are washing cars along the side of the road, while brokers negotiate with buyers and dealers so they can come to terms. The area is known for a conce...


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