Petroleum Dealers in a Pickle Over New Payment Scheme

ADMI'N FILLS TOP FOREIGN POLICY SPOT

ADMI'N FILLS TOP FOREIGN POLICY SPOT

June 12 , 2021

Girma Temsegen (right), a career diplomat who first joined the foreign office in 1991, has been appointed to serve as a foreign policy advisor to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD). Having a minister's rank, Girma's debut a...

Second Round of COVID-19 Jabs Approaches, Doses Remain Unacquired

Second Round of COVID-19 Jabs Approaches, Doses Remain Unacquired

June 12 , 2021 . By HAWI DADHI

Ethiopia faces a critical shortage of second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine as authorities find themselves in a difficult position to complete the regimen of millions of people who have already received the first dose. ...

Cement Factories to Undergo Maintenance Despite Recurring Supply Shortage

Cement Factories to Undergo Maintenance Despite Recurring Supply Shortage

June 12 , 2021 . By SAMSON BERHANE

Several cement plants will undergo maintenance beginning next month, aggravating fears that shortages in supply will send retail prices through the roof. The new schedule has been set despite the recurring cement shor...

Feed, Forex Shortages Threaten Poultry Farms

Feed, Forex Shortages Threaten Poultry Farms

June 12 , 2021 . By NEGA ZINABIE

A severe shortage of feed for chickens, coupled with a lack of forex for vaccines imports, threatens the poultry sector. The price of feed resources has been on an upward climb for months and shows...

A severe shortage of feed for chickens, coupled with a lack of forex f...

Sputtering Leather Shoes Project Surfaces Out of Thin Air

Sputtering Leather Shoes Project Surfaces Out of Thin Air

June 12 , 2021 . By BERSABEH GEBRE

A project that aimed to supply 20 million schoolchildren nationwide with leather shoes is struggling to get off the ground due to a lack of financing and interest. The Leather Industry Development...

A project that aimed to supply 20 million schoolchildren nationwide wi...

DEVELOPING STORY: Aid Organisation Chief Urges Security Council to Act

DEVELOPING STORY: Aid Organisation Chief Urges Security Council to Act

June 10 , 2021

Let the world walk the talk in helping millions of people suffering and face the prospect of famine in the Tigray region, calls the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, an aid agency active helping...

Let the world walk the talk in helping millions of people suffering an...

DEVELOPING STORY: US Calls for UN Security Council to Convene on "Carnage" in Tigray

DEVELOPING STORY: US Calls for UN Security Council to Convene on "Carnage" in Tigray

June 10 , 2021

The United States government has called for the UN Security Council to convene to discuss what its Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, described as "daily carnage" in the Tigray...

The United States government has called for the UN Security Council to...

ZAMZAM REACHES THE SPRING

ZAMZAM REACHES THE SPRING

June 5 , 2021

It was a show of an official endorsement ZamZam Bank had been denied just a decade ago when Yinager Dessie (PhD) (left), governor of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE), was asked to open an account l...

It was a show of an official endorsement ZamZam Bank had been denied j...