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Apr 13 , 2019

Fasting Season, No Longer Boon for Fish Industry

Yaqob Workneh, 42, a legal expert, has been a connoisseur of fish for the past 15 years, especially during fasting seasons like Abiy Tsome, the Ethiopian Orthodox Lent. He visits Seble Fish Resta...

Apr 6 , 2019

Forex Crunch Marginally Improves, while Businesses Teeter

Amrin Ahmed, who is in her early 20s, is a self-described businesswoman. Growing up in the culture of a family-owned business, she started selling cosmetics and women's products while she was still in...

Apr 6 , 2019

Political Challenges, Chief Agenda in Current Ethiopia

In an opinion piece in this publication headlined, “PM Abiy Should Look at Economic Problems as Well,” it is suggested that the Prime Minister's administration needs to focus on transitioning the...

Mar 30 , 2019

Recurrent Water Shortage Exasperates Consumers

For Hana Tilahun, 28, who lives in Bethel, close to Balcha Aba Nefso Street, water shortages are a common occurrence. But she is anguished that her house did not receive a single drop of water for the...

Mar 23 , 2019

Unplanned Rehabilitation Project Comes Unglued

The earliest childhood memory of Dawit Gezahegn, who is in his early 20s, is being in an orphanage. Adopted at a young age, he never knew who his biological parents were. He was fortunate enough to...

Mar 16 , 2019

Prices of Secondhand Cars Race Ahead

Last Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 20-something Selam Tadesse was in Haya Hulet with a cousin and her younger brother to purchase a new car. For the last four years, she has been sharing a car with her fat...

Mar 9 , 2019

Production Hurdles Scuttle Flower Industry Potential

For Mesfin Reday, a flower shop owner in Rehobot, Bole district, business has been choppy. Having begun the business two years ago, he eagerly awaits Valentine's Day, graduations and wedding season...

Mar 2 , 2019

State Reaches Out to the Private Sector

The more than quarter century old Alkyd Resin was privatised a decade ago, and it is the only company in Ethiopia that manufactures alkyd and emulsion resins, used in the production of oil and waterco...

Feb 23 , 2019

Unplanned Demolitions Displace Legetafo Residents in Ruins

Serkalem Baylegn, a 35-year-old single mother of three, lives in Legetafo Legedadi, Oromia Regional State, 11Km northeast of the capital. Born and raised in Addis Abeba, she bought the property whe...

Feb 16 , 2019

Informal Decision Dashes Employment Hopes

Samson Mekonnen, born and raised in the Ras Desta Hospital area of Arada District and a graduate of General Wingate TVET College in carpentry, is now in his 30s. For years he worked on various temp...

Feb 9 , 2019

Wheat Supply Shortage Disrupts Bakeries in Addis

When Sultan Redi was just 10 years old, his father established Abo Bakery Shop in Asko, Kolfe District, in 1969. A fourth child, he grew up helping in the shop, and by the time he was an adult he had...

Feb 2 , 2019

Breweries, Periphery Industries on Edge as Bill Progresses

Three years ago, Sewmehon Yismaw was approached by Habesha Breweries for the production of a television commercial. The brewery wanted an advertisement that was historical and cultural with an “E...

Jan 26 , 2019

Leather Industry Stumbles in Value Addition

Abebe Hode, 64, joined the leather industry in the late 1970s, right after graduating from high school. He first worked for two years in raw leather processing, starting with the removal of hair fr...

Jan 19 , 2019

Days of Fuel Shortages Wrench Capital

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 T...

Jan 12 , 2019

Electric Tariff Increase Sends Shockwave Through Consumers

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 stric...

Jan 6 , 2019

Gena Arrives With Stable Prices in Local Markets

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 holida...

Columns

Commentaries | Jul 25,2026

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Ideally, citizens who have paid income tax all year should not have to reach for their wal...

Editorial | Jul 25 , 2026

Chasing Excellence in the Summer, Raising Questions Over Who It Leaves Behind

For as long as her daughter had been in school, the summer break belonged to the family. E...

Featured | Jul 25 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY and TIGIST MEKONNEN

Shematera Weavers' Chain Meets the VAT Line

The footsteps, bargaining voices and rustle of cotton cloth that once filled Shematera in...

Agenda | Jul 25 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE

Global Bank Board Suspends 18 as Deposit Probe Widens

Global Bank's Board of Directors have overhauled top management, after suspending several...

Fortune News | Jul 25 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER