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Sep 6 , 2020

Ethiopian in Rescue Talks With South African Flag Carrier

Ethiopian Airlines Group is among companies in talks with South Africa's government about potentially offering support to the country's insolvent state airline, according to people familiar with the m...

Aug 29 , 2020

As Overall Death Rate Declines, Casket Sales Take Hit

For at least the last four decades, a collection of shops along Churchill Avenue has been a hub for coffins, headstones, flowers, memorial ceramic urns and burial vaults. But as of two weeks ago, the...

Aug 22 , 2020

Home-based Healthcare Services Survive Rough Patch

Belay Kahsay, 84 years old and the father of four daughters, served as a finance officer until his retirement from Agip - an Italian gasoline, diesel and lubricants retailer. Two years ago, Belay w...

Aug 16 , 2020

Tax Exemption Catalyses Farm Mechanisation Growth

Derbe Asefa, a farmer from Asambitu village in Sinana Wereda of Bale Zone, Oromia Regional State, cultivates 13ha of land with wheat and barley in the spring and summer seasons. A father of four, D...

Jul 25 , 2020

Companies Jump into Seasonal Businesses to Stay Afloat

For the past four months, all of the campuses of Rift Valley University were empty with almost no activity. The campuses used to be very busy with students rushing to go to class or leaving the compou...

Jul 18 , 2020

COVID-19 Pain Kicks in for Lawyers

Eyasu Mekonnen, 35, has spent almost one-third of his life in the legal business working as a representative for different companies and as a practicing lawyer. He earned his first and second degrees...

Jul 13 , 2020

Glass in Demand after Rioters Shatter Thousands of Windows

On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 8, 2020, the Kelifa Building near Atikilt Tera was unusually brimming with automobiles. A bizarre scene to be sure, all the windows of the vehicles queued up in the...

Jul 10 , 2020

Massive Protest Drains Food Supply

On the afternoon of July 2, 2020, the shops and mini markets around Riche on Sierra Leone Street (Debre Zeit Road) had few customers since much of their shelves were empty. Milk and dairy products, bo...

Jul 10 , 2020

Violence Turns Investments in Regional Towns into Ash

Abebech Getachew was watching news after putting her three teenage kids to sleep when she heard a faint outcry from outside. She looked out her window to see what was going on. But since she could not...

May 31 , 2020

Ethiopia Grapples with Flood Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

On a Friday afternoon, April 24, 2020, the bodies of two individuals, 19 and 45, were discovered in Hamdael area, Dire Dawa City, following a flood caused by heavy rainfall. The bodies were found by l...

May 23 , 2020

Old Establishment Rolls with Punches, Opens Newest Venture

On Ras Lulseged Street, one of the oldest streets in Addis Abeba, sits one of the oldest buildings in the country, most famously known as Tamama Fok, "the slanted building." The building, true to its...

May 16 , 2020

COVID-19 Dries Up Ethiopia's Cash Cow: Remittances

Solomon Mitkiu, a member of the Ethiopian diaspora living in the Washington, DC metropolitan area is one of the many people working for Uber, the company that founded the digital ride-hailing industry...

Apr 17 , 2020

Poultry Industry Catches COVID-19 Flu

For the past couple of weeks, employees of SW Poultry Farm have added an additional activity to their daily routine of breeding chickens and selling them to farm owners who grow them for meat or egg p...

Apr 17 , 2020

Tech Savvy Firm Crafts Close Contact Detector App

The year 2020 has welcomed the world with the turmoil of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), which started in China and has spread rapidly across the world. All the New Year's resolutions, expectatio...

Apr 17 , 2020

COVID-19 Strains Fragile Drug Supply Chain

When it was first reported in Wuhan, China, on December 31, 2019, the last day of last year, no one gave any attention to Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). Since then, the virus has spread rapidly and bee...

Apr 4 , 2020

COVID-19 Catches Up to Fuel Supply

It's been barely a month since the first case of Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) brought horror to Ethiopia. Since then, the bustling capital of the country has been drowning in silence with little activ...

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Commentaries | Nov 01,2025

Central Bank Misses the Mark on Forex Market Speculation

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) issued a statement two weeks ago that appeared to be a...

Editorial | Nov 1 , 2025

They Melt Batteries to Make a Living, Inhale Poison Without Knowing

On a sun-dappled stretch of Swaziland St., near St. Paul Hospital, north of Addis Abeba, w...

Featured | Nov 2 , 2025 . By REDIET YARED

Central Bank Lifts Lending Limits on Sharia-compliant Banks

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has reversed a policy that had weighed on the four ful...

Agenda | Nov 2 , 2025 . By NAHOM AYELE

SHARIA-COMPLIANT BANKS WIN REPRIEVE, AWAIT REFORM

The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) has scrapped the credit-growth ceiling that had stifle...

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