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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...

Mar 28 , 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 14 , 2020

Effoi Slices through Traditions

It was almost 8:00pm when Melat Alemu was sitting out on the rooftop of the Effoi-Red building on Cape Verde Street, next to the European Union Delegation Office, having dinner with four of her friend...

Mar 7 , 2020

Ethiopia's Staple Food Goes After Global Market

Founded by the 44-year-old father of four Engidawerk Yifru, Motherland Enjera has been in the injeramaking business for almost half a decade. Having worked in the car export business and being a mu...

Feb 1 , 2020

Digital Magazines: Media Industry's Next Curve

On weekday evenings and weekends, people of all age groups can been seen relaxing in cafes across the capital reading print newspapers and magazines. This has been a common sight for many years, es...

Jan 25 , 2020

Transport Authority Says 'Buckle Up'

Along Africa Avenue that leads to Bole International Airport, Deputy Inspector Abiyot Abebe and his colleagues were busy controlling the traffic flow on the road. They randomly stopped vehicles to...

Jan 18 , 2020

Epiphany Propels T-shirt Making Boom

The name Gollagul, named after a tower, has habitually replaced the name of the area known as Hayahulet Mazoria, which is located on Haile Gebresilassie Avenue. On the second floor of the tower, wh...

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