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Ethiopia Maps Out Digital Payment Strategy

May 31 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

The board of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) is set to approve the National Payment Strategy, a three-year game plan that lays out infrastructure to enable users to make f...

Ministry Writes Construction Protocol

May 31 , 2020 . By HENOK TERECHA

Construction owners should prepare temperature testing equipment, regularly disinfect the working area and shared equipment and let employees work in shifts, according to a draft protocol prepared by the Ministry of Urba...

Tigray Regional State Rolls out New Structure

May 31 , 2020 . By MEHRET OKUBAY

The Tigray Regional State government has begun undertaking structural reforms by shrinking public offices and decentralising its top-down structure. Hoping to increase the efficiency of the regional government, couple...

Top Water Seals 20-year Saudi Arabian Deal

May 31 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

Abebe Dinku Water & Non-Alcoholic Beverages, a bottler of one of the newest waters, Top Water, has closed a 20-year deal with a Saudi Arabian company to export water. Abebe Dinku signed the dea...

Abebe Dinku Water & Non-Alcoholic Beverages, a bottler of one of t...

North Gonder Invests 22.5m Br in Sport Facilities

May 31 , 2020 . By MUHABA OUMER

The Administration of North Gonder Zone has invested 22.5 million Br in the construction of an athletics centre and small stadium in two towns. The athletic centre, which is set to be built in Daba...

The Administration of North Gonder Zone has invested 22.5 million Br i...

WADING THE NILE

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

Failing to reach an agreement on the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), the three main protagonists of the dispute, Ethiopia and the two downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, have...

Failing to reach an agreement on the filling of the Grand Ethiopian Re...

Ministry to Avail 5pc of Ethio Telecom to Public

May 23 , 2020 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The Ministry of Finance has decided to avail a five percent stake in Ethio telecom to the public with a cap on the number of shares an individual can buy. The minority share of the telecom company wil...

The Ministry of Finance has decided to avail a five percent stake in E...

Bankers Call for Higher Denomination Bank Notes

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

The Ethiopian Bankers Association, the consortium of all commercial banks, has asked the government to issue banknotes in higher denominations, including 200 and 500 Br notes. The 0.4pc average wee...

The Ethiopian Bankers Association, the consortium of all commercial ba...

May 23 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

The Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation has requested a 191-m...

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

The Ministry of Innovation & Technology tabled a digital...

May 23 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Employees from the East Addis District of Bank of Abyssinia...

May 23 , 2020 . By HAGOS GEBREAMLAK

The government has hired a Chinese company to build four pow...

Columns

Commentaries | May 31,2020

When the Elephants Fight, Developing Nations Get Sick

Life Matters | May 31,2020

Home Together: The Power Dynamics

My Opinion | May 31,2020

No One Knows

Sunday with Eden | May 31,2020

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Roll Back Women's Hard-won Gains

Agenda | Mar 28,2020

Ethiopia's Flower Market at Dead End

Editorial | May 08,2020

In the Face of Constitutional Crisis, House of Federation Can't Appear Lame Duck

Editorial

Bereft of Popular Mandate, Hard to Keep the State Viable

May 31 , 2020

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) has come a long way since his spectacular arrival at...

Speed, Agility Lacking in Administration's Stimulus Package

May 23 , 2020

Countries in Africa are the least prepared to deal with the health and social consequ...

Public Space, Even on 'Mind-blowing' Projects, Means No Private Realm

May 16 , 2020

In November 2019, the Mayor of Washington, DC, Muriel Bowser, visited Addis Abeba for...

Amendment, the Less Travelled, Least Unpleasant Way Forward than Interpretation

May 9 , 2020

The unsavoury position Ethiopia finds itself in today was best described by Moussa Ad...

Sunday With Eden

COVID-19 Pandemic Threatens to Roll Back Women's Hard-won Gains

There has never been a great time to be a woman. The Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pan...

May 31 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

The Infodemic Can Kill

I was walking home on a late Friday afternoon when I came across a pregnant lady who was carrying a large bag of groceries. Clearly, she wa...

May 23 , 2020 . By Eden Sahle

Life Matters

Home Together: The Power Dynamics

Although it is crucial, and we should heed the calls for social distancing and home quarantining from health professionals, we cannot help b...

May 31 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

When Machines Lie

Sometimes automated teller machines (ATMs) make me want to punch them. Their only job is to spit out money, but this is a task that they app...

May 23 , 2020 . By Kidist Yidnekachew

Agenda

Making Up for Lost Time, Learning in the Midst of COVID-19

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Many students across the country have had to reacquaint themselves with what school m...

DAM CHRONICLES

May 23 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

For thousands of years, the Nile River and Egypt were weaved intrinsically in history rather than geography. The civilisation of ancient Egy...

City Struggles to Stay Vigilant as COVID-19 Cases Rise

May 16 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

Amanuel Anjulo, 25 years old, sits perched on the metal gate of the parking lot across the street from th...

Public in Dark as Mesqel Square Rehab Commences

May 9 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR

When excavators started jack-hammering two weeks ago at Mesqel Square, the city's most famous public gath...

Gallery

IN-PICTURE: LAUREATE'S RECEPTION

December 14 , 2019

President Sahle-Work Zewde hosted a state dinner reception to congratulate and welcome the Prime Minister on his return home from Oslo, Norway, where he accepted the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize two days earlier...

PM Abiy Ahmed (PhD) at a Gala Dinner Called for the Awarding of the Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize

May 6 , 2019

Faces, Voices of Addis Abeba

April 26 , 2019

Mourning Nation, Grieving World

March 17 , 2019

THE FINISH LINE

March 16 , 2019

Pizza Hut Triples Branches

February 2 , 2019

Commentaries

When the Elephants Fight, Developing Nations Get Sick

Controversies are engulfing the global response toward the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-...

May 31 , 2020 . By Dawit Wondimagegn

Africa’s Hour of Need

It is too soon to tell how heavy the human toll from the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic will be on sub-Saharan Africa. But the pandem...

May 31 , 2020 . By Abebe Aemro Selassie

Fineline

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF's leadership community...

Old habits die hard, so they say. The TPLF`s leadership community - the existing alike the former - is ba...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank...

Yinager Dessie (PhD), governor of the central bank, convened bank presidents and board directors in his o...

Fortune news

'Not Too Expansionary'

May 30 , 2020 . By FASIKA TADESSE

The Ministry of Finance has drafted a bill that proposes 470 billion Br for next year's federal budget, a figure highly influenced by fears...

Oil Companies Racked with Pain from Container Pilferage

May 31 , 2020 . By GELILA SAMUEL

Libya Oil Ethiopia Ltd, one of the largest oil companies in the country, has witnessed the theft of lubri...

Hawassa Industrial Park Gears up to Export Masks, Bio Suits

May 31 , 2020 . By MAYA MISIKIR and HENOK TERECHA

Companies in the Hawassa Industrial Park have started the process for the export of personal protective e...