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Jan 11 , 2020

High Barriers Keep Large Construction Projects in Foreign Hands

Sengatera, aka the Financial District, is emerging as Ethiopia's Wall Street with many highrise buildings owned by banks and insurance firms dotting the boulevards. Some of the buildings have reach...

Jan 5 , 2020

Most Read Fortune Stories of the Decade

Here are the top ten most most read (Addis) Fortune stories of the decade...

Jan 4 , 2020

PERSONAL REGRETS, FEARS & WISHES: INSURERS OPEN UP

When insurers are not at their day jobs, controlling risk and ensuring stability, they are engaging in a rich social and personal life. Unlike their colleagues in the banking sector, presidents of Eth...

Jan 5 , 2020

Building Cleaning Services Bloom in Addis

Late in the afternoon two weeks ago around Dembel City Centre on Africa Avenue a crowd of people are headed back home, class or somewhere after work. A growing number of people keep adding to the l...

Jan 5 , 2020

Traditional Crafts Greet Holiday Shoppers

It is a well-known tale: Santa Claus also known as Saint Nicholas or Kris Kringle has a deep history engraved in Christmas traditions. His story goes back to the third century when Saint Nicholas stro...

Jan 5 , 2020

Five Safe Havens in Polarised Social Media

Two decades ago, it was hard to cancel scheduled appointments, since there was no means of instant communication. Even fixed-line telephones were not abundant. When the mobile phone was introduced...

Dec 28 , 2019

X-mas Expos: New Organisers, Yet Same Old, Same Old

On the giant outdoor public stairs of Mesqel Square, the big screen that displays the advertisement of Selam Christmas Bazaar and a walkway decorated with lights before the main gate of the Addis Abeb...

Dec 21 , 2019

Right-of-Ways, Roads Delayed: Addis Construction Projects Burden Business Owners

Unlike her schedule for the first five years, Aynalem Worku now opens her mini-market only in the morning and after working hours in the afternoon. At the end of last month on a weekday around noon...

Dec 14 , 2019

Unregulated Phone Screen Coating Business Booms in Addis

On the evening of Tuesday, December 4, 2019, the walkways of a road that stretches from Mexico to Bole was very busy with people who were on their way back home from the office and others headed somew...

Dec 7 , 2019

Street Photography Captures Generational Trend

Nothing haunts humans as maddeningly and painfully like beautiful, sweet memories. Like seeing their high school graduation photos, and being reminded of whom they once were, who they once aspired to...

Nov 30 , 2019

Middle Eastern Cuisine Flourishes Among Foodies

Bilise Adisho, a 25-year-old medical doctor working at Hayat Hospital, enjoys hanid, a popular Yemeni food at the King of Yemen Restaurant in the capital. Bilise has been going to Middle Eastern re...

Nov 23 , 2019

Geothermal Project: Ethiopia's Standard-Bearer at Africa's Market for Capital

Lights beamed down the hall, changing colors every few minutes and glittering against the stage where several business people sat on a panel to fire up a dimly lit crowd. Emmanuel Birba was one of the...

Nov 23 , 2019

Delivery Services Fill Food Industry Gap in Addis

Asgdom Abraha, a businessman living in Addis Abeba, always felt there was something missing in the thriving fast-food industry of the city. All of this changed once he began using food delivery servic...

Nov 16 , 2019

Revenues Ministry Grapples with Taxpayers Over Fake Receipts

The eight-year-old Turkish company BMET Cable produces energy and telecommunication cables. Employing 788 people, it produces 40tn of cables a day. The company has never been without trouble, such as...

Nov 9 , 2019

Fueled by Passion and Addiction, Betting Businesses Flourish

Yitbarek Nigussie, 24, was making a deposit for his bets for eight Champions League games that were going to take place on Wednesday night, November 6, 2019, at Vamos Betting house at Gotera Condomini...

Nov 2 , 2019

Recycled Paper Products: New Green Business Frontier

Mimi Legesse, a 32-year-old woman with a hearing impairment, began her entrepreneurial journey during her pregnancy, making bags and hats out of crochet, but her intended market failed to materialise...

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Officials Bank on Student Service to Patch a Fractured Country

The federal government will soon require one year of national service from university stud...

Editorial | Apr 13 , 2025

When the Lift Lets Users Down

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Trenches of Tax Turmoil

Key Takeaways: Merkato's bustling trade shows signs of a slowdown, manifesting deep...

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MERCATO TAXED TO SILENCE

Some parts of Merkato have fallen uncharacteristically silent, contrary to its typical bus...

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