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Covid-19

Mar 31 , 2020

Abay Bank Joins Nation's Effort to Avert Spread of COVID-19, Pitching in 3m Br

Abay Bank has joined the list of financial institutions that are giving financial assistance to the national committee that is mobilising resources to ward off the potential spread of the Novel Corona...

Mar 30 , 2020

More Regional States Suspend Inland Road Transport Services

Three more regional states closed their doors for inland road transport services, joining the country's effort in containing the spread of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Oromia, Amhara and South...

Mar 29 , 2020

Tech Teams Join Hands to Fight COVID-19 Threat

Virtual meetings are taking place across the globe as well as in Ethiopia's most decisive office - the Office of the Prime Minister. Usually accompanied by ministers and high-level officials, on Th...

Mar 29 , 2020

Ethiopia Reports First Coronavirus Case

Ethiopia discovered its first Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) case in a 48-year-old Japanese citizen, Minister of Health Lia Tadesse (MD) announced today at a press conference. The individual arrived...

Mar 29 , 2020

INSA Launches COVID-19 Monitoring Platform

The Information Network Security Agency (INSA) has launched an integrated Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring platform. The estimated commercial value of the platform would have been as high as 1...

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 28 , 2020

INSA Launches COVID-19 Monitoring Platform

The Information Network Security Agency (INSA) has launched an integrated Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) monitoring platform developed for 1.5 million Br from the Agency's coffers. Launched on March...

Mar 28 , 2020

Tech Teams Join Hands to Fight COVID-19 Threat

Mar 28 , 2020

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

The world is almost at a standstill as it grapples with an impending tragedy. What started out as the spread of an unknown respiratory virus in a Chinese city most of us had never heard of before has...

Mar 28 , 2020

Listening to the Pandemic

As of a few weeks ago, no one would have disputed that the most relevant and evident trend in the global politics of our times is “go national.” Unilateralism and “zero-sum game” logic seem...

Mar 28 , 2020

The Plague Looms Large, Let's Not Repeat History

The Bubonic Plague, also called the Great Dying or Black Death, is the most famous epidemic in Western history. Even though there were reports of plague in earlier centuries, none matched the sufferin...

Mar 28 , 2020

In Tech, We Should Trust

The Second World War cost millions of lives, but one of its unintended positive contributions to the world was the advancement of science and technology in their utility for humankind. Similarly, w...

Mar 28 , 2020

Imagining Our Way Out of COVID-19

If we all had mansions, adequate access to water and sanitation, constant power and internet connections and a government that could afford to subsidise paid leave for large swaths of the population,...

Mar 28 , 2020

In the Fight Against COVID-19, Everyone Should Enlist

The response and serious commitment by all to contribute to the resolution of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis is overwhelming. There is thus no better time to consider what worries us most and...

Mar 28 , 2020

When it Comes to COVID, Caution but Also Some Sense

Contrary to standard economic theory, behavioural economics outlines paradoxical “errors” we commit in our daily lives. We have a psychological makeup that leads us to have a higher fear of som...

Mar 28 , 2020

AAU Allocates 10m Br for Research of COVID-19

Addis Abeba University (AAU), the country's oldest university, has allocated 10 million Br for researching the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). A team that will be conducting the research was formed a...

Columns

Commentaries | Sep 13,2025

In Climate Talks, Africa Mortgages Tomorrow Simply to Survive Today

At its launch in Nairobi two years ago, the Africa Climate Summit was billed as the forum...

Editorial | Sep 13 , 2025

Digital Payments Reshape Economy While Service Workers Lose Out

The way the Birr moves is changing, and with it, habits that have shaped daily life for ge...

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Student Tax ID Push Triggers Logjam

The yellow flush of Aday Abeba flowers has returned to Addis Abeba, heralding the arrival...

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Monument to National Ambition, Geopolitical Agency

The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), Africa's largest hydroelectric power project,...

Fortune News | Sep 15 , 2025 . By AMANUEL BEKELE