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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...

Oct 19 , 2019

Diaper Makers Strive to Endure in Growing Market

Genet Gemchu, who is in her early '30s, did not find raising her youngest child as easy as her experience raising her four-year-old. Genet, who has worked at East Africa Pharmaceuticals Plc since ...

Oct 12 , 2019

Mandatory GPS Installation Cheers Importers, Displeases Truck Owners

Four months ago, Dawit Hagos, who runs his family's business, MICAS Construction Materials, decided to install Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite tracking on his company's 10 trucks. Born an...

Oct 5 , 2019

Phone Call Scams on the Rise

On a weekday in April last year, Tadesse Kebede, a security guard at Commercial Bank of Ethiopia (CBE), received what at first seemed like a normal phone call but turned out to be anything but normal...

Sep 28 , 2019

Food Fight: City Closes Shops, Claims Caused Inflation

Dagnachew Aschalew stands forlorn outside his butchery on the main thoroughfare in Adisu Gebeya, in Gulele District. Staring at his shuttered business last Thursday, September 26, 2019, Dagnachew reca...

Sep 28 , 2019

Property Management Flourishes as Sector Gets Professional Makeover

A medical doctor serving at the VA Medical Centre in the United States, the 63-year-old Amanuel Tekle has been away from his native land for so long. Growing up in Addis Abeba's Seba Dereja neighbourh...

Sep 21 , 2019

Many Job Searchers Pay Agencies Amid Legal Prohibition

Hana Afework, a 24-year-old graduate of electrical engineering from Hawassa University in 2018 dreamed that she would be hired with a satisfactory salary soon after graduation. But despite her wish...

Sep 14 , 2019

Taxi Terminal Shortage Adds to Woes of Drivers, Passengers

On a gray Tuesday last month, passengers at the Stadium taxi terminal wait in line to take taxis to their destinations, while others just listen to the destinations that are being called out. The r...

Sep 14 , 2019

Another Victim of Forex Crunch: Railway Baggage Scanners

Redwan Abedulkeder, a 40-year-old father of one, was a third-year medical student at Torhailoch Hospital before he dropped out this year due to health-related reasons. Until last March, Redwan used...

Sep 9 , 2019

Five Reasons Why Ethiopia Could be the Next Global Economy to Watch

Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its fastest growing economy today. With a population of over 100 million and an annual economic growth rate of 10pc over the past 15 years, it prese...

Sep 8 , 2019

New Year’S Expos Delight Shoppers, Leave Sellers Stranded

On the evening of Tuesday, August 27, 2019, the 23-year-old Tesfaye Alemayehu, was at the Addis Abeba Exhibition Centre & Market Development Enterprise, which is located at Mesqel Square. Tesfa...

Sep 8 , 2019

Walia Presses Ahead to Rescue Walia Ibex

Temera Tigabu was born and raised on the cliffs of the Simien Mountains, some 830Km north of the capital. The last child to a family of four, she says growing up in the mountains made her upbringin...

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Commentaries | Oct 11,2025

The Human Flight a Failure of Political Imagination, Not a Mere Economic Policy

Ladislas Farago, a roving Associated Press (AP) correspondent, arrived in Ethiopia in 193...

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TRADITION THRIVES AS COSTS CLIMB

As dawn broke over Addis Abeba last week, the city's arteries pulsed not with the usual we...

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TOMATOES TASTE OF INFLATION

Tomato prices in Addis Abeba have surged to unprecedented levels, with retail stands charg...

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Ministry Shifts Gears as Number Plate Change Fuels Debate

A sweeping change in the vehicle licensing system has tilted the scales in favour of elect...

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